单词 | the next way |
释义 | > as lemmasthe (occasionally your, etc.) next way b. the (occasionally your, etc.) next way: the shortest, most convenient, or most direct way; (in extended use) the easiest or most obvious thing to do. Now archaic and English regional. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > straight or direct rightOE the (occasionally your, etc.) next wayc1330 forthright1609 highball1920 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > straight or direct > short cut the (occasionally your, etc.) next wayc1330 cut1577 near cut1612 short cut1619 overcut1636 cross-cut1800 cut-off1806 quick cut1890 c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 437 (MED) He þoute þe nekste weie to ride. c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 807 This messager..Vnto the castel halt the nexte wey. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 247 (MED) He..ladde his knyȝtes..To þe Grekis holdyng þe nexte weye. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 63 They yode ouer a mareys for the nexst waye, but thei felle in the myre. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xv. 29 I wyll retourne into Englande the nexte waye. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 30 Thus bred vp..to learne the next and readie way to sinne. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiii. ix. 191 The legions were not brought the next way,..but went ouer a farre off. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 59 I speake the truth the next waie . View more context for this quotation 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry v. sig. K2 To let you goe Were the next way. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 163 That comes down from our Countrey the next way into it. View more context for this quotation 1703 S. Centlivre Love's Contrivance iii. i. 30 'Tis my best way to steal out, e'er he has done reading, or perhaps I shall be shew'd the next way to the Horse Pond. 1767 Cries of Blood 10 The next way from that place to Mr. Harrison's house. 1821 F. Reynolds Don John i. i. 7 John So, the next fame shall lose this fam'd Violetta. Fred 'Tis the next way. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 260/1 Your next way will be by th' field path. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. II. viii. 218 That herdman rose..And sallies the next way, to Amathon's dune. < as lemmas |
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