| 单词 | the beaten track |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe beaten track a. A course of action or conduct; a method of proceeding; ‘way’, ‘path’. the beaten track, the ordinary (quasi well-worn) way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action wayeOE pathOE waya1225 tracea1300 line13.. dancea1352 tenor1398 featc1420 faction1447 rink?a1500 footpath1535 trade1536 vein1549 tract1575 course1582 road1600 country dance1613 track1638 steeragea1641 rhumb1666 tack1675 conduct1706 walk1755 wheel-way1829 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > the usual or ordinary way or procedure coursec1325 highway1550 way1556 the common (also general, usual) road1607 the beaten track1638 run1688 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 242 They..propound unto us the right way, and not one usually beaten track onely. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 54 You are in a track, and cannot go back or forwards. 1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. (1837) (ed. 2) I. 224 The world never believes it possible for people to act out of the common track [1965 ed.: tract]. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 23 To..Pace the Round Eternal?..To beat, and beat, The beaten Track? 1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life II. 166 You see me now entered into a new track of life. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 56 Would ye have me wish to wander From the tracks of daily care? 1906 P. Kropotkin Mem. of Revolutionist (1908) IV. viii. 254 Austria and Hungary followed in the same track. < as lemmas |
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