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单词 step for step
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step for step (with)
a. In phrases which refer to the action of walking evenly with another, putting the right and left foot alternately forward at the same moment with the corresponding foot of the other person; as in step and its opposite out of step (with); step for step (with); to keep step (with; also to music, etc.); †to tell steps with. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > keep pace with > walk evenly with
to tell steps with1623
to keep step (with; also to music, etc.)1858
the world > movement > rate of motion > [phrase] > keeping pace with > walking evenly with
foot by footc1450
step for step (with)1785
the world > movement > rate of motion > [phrase] > keeping pace with > walking evenly with > not
out of step (with)1876–89
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 44 I..front but in that File Where others tell steps with me. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 18 The shapeless pair, As they design'd to mock me, at my side Take step for step.
1844 E. B. Browning Rhapsody Life's Progress viii I could walk, step for step, with an angel beside, On the heaven-heights of truth.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. v. 114 The officer who rode alongside him step for step.
1858 Lovejoy in Congressional Globe 18 Feb. 754/2 We hear about keeping step to the music of the Union.
1876–89 R. Bridges Growth of Love xxxvi Wherefore my feet go out of step with time.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lviii. 87 When I came last to Ludlow..Two friends kept step beside me.
1898 Weekly Register 15 Jan. We need not go in step with the Bishops over the whole ground exhaustively surveyed.
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