| 单词 | steer clear |
| 释义 | > as lemmassteer clear d. In such phrases as to get or keep (oneself) clear, to steer clear, go clear, stand clear, the adjective passes at length into an adverb. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > kept or placed at a distance apart a-squarec1460 ysowndir1513 aloof1544 loof1558 aloof off?a1560 clear1600 large1670 abeighc1707 overhand1816 aloofly1891 remotely1897 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [adverb] > avoiding or refraining from contact clear1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 134 How to get cleere of all the debts I owe. View more context for this quotation 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vi. 18 On the instant they got cleere of our shyp. View more context for this quotation 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 61 Cut any thing to get cleare. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. i. 3 These constant Trade-Winds usually blow..30 or 40 Leagues off at Sea, clear from any Land. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 38. ⁋4 To get clear of such a light Fondness for Applause. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 12 Mar. 2/2 If I can keep clear of these two Evils. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 293 We came clear of the Subarbs. 1725 D. Defoe Voy. round World (1840) 90 Twice she struck..but she did but touch, and went clear. 1737 Common Sense (1738) I. 25 The handsomest women..keep the clearest from these extravagancies. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 284 The Prize..soon after fell foul with her Head on our Starboard Quarter..however, we bore her off as well as we could, and she soon fell clear of us. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xi. 25 We got clear of the islands before sunrise. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. viii. vii. 342 He is safest from shoals who steers clearest of his—relations. 1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 180 They sit perfectly clear of each other. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxvi. 430 Start clear on a new sort of life. 1885 Law Times 79 366/2 The curtains..will hang clear of the doors. < as lemmas |
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