| 单词 | right ahead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasright ahead 2. In a position to the front (of a person or thing); at some point in one's direct line of motion or vision. In early use frequently in right ahead. Cf. on head (head n.1 Phrases 1i(c)(ii)).Breakers ahead!: see breaker n.1 5. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > front > [adverb] aforeOE forneOE beforeOE aforewarda1200 afornonc1275 toforec1330 onwardc1385 bifornysc1420 forouth1487 ahead1568 afrontc1570 forwardly1578 anteriorly1598 foremostly1607 devant1609 forward1619 forward on1630 front-wise1774 vanward1827 out front1934 upfront1937 the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in forward direction > in direction of motion ahead1725 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lx. f. 96 Sodainly the winde dydde chaunge euen ryght a heade to the North, and Northwest. ?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xiv. sig. K.ivv The one place must be thwarte of you, the other must be a head or sterne of you. 1643 W. Smith Severall Lett. 3 We cut and also came aground a little ahead of her. 1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 129 Newes was brought in by one of our powder monkey's..that there were five great ships a Head, coming stem for stem towards us. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 174 They saw it just before them, or, as the Seaman call it, Right a Head. 1796 tr. C.-F. du P. Dumouriez Life I. ii. iv. 425 Blocks of granite..had been collected with an intention to build a fort on the rocks ahead of Homet. 1849 J. G. Bruff Jrnl. 9 July in Gold Rush (1944) I. i. 119 Road over high sandy arid plains—very level & dusty. Outrunners of the Rocky Mountains ahead. 1885 T. W. Knox Voy. Vivian to N. Pole xvii. 242 The iceberg..was almost dead ahead. 1910 Busy Man's Mag. Dec. 65/1 On either side were swift hills mottled with green and gold, ahead a curdle of snow-capped mountains. 1972 Field & Stream Dec. 74/1 Just ahead, beyond the aspens, I could see the grass of a large meadow. 1996 S. Saylor Murder on Appian Way (1997) 170 Mount Alba loomed straight ahead of us. 2008 R. Beard Becoming Drusilla (2009) xi. 246 We see two walkers up ahead. < as lemmas |
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