英语词汇“to be after”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. after one's own heart: see heart n. 7.

P2. after the flesh: see flesh n. 12.

†P3. after the hand: after the event; afterwards. Cf. afterhand adv. Obsolete.

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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 893 (MED) Bot whanne he hath his cause lore, Thanne is he wys after the hond.

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xxii. 586 This part must be made reasonable stiffe, because the weake paste euer falleth after the hand.

P4.

a. after you is manners and variants: a polite formula used (frequently humorously or self-consciously) in yielding precedence. Cf. after you at Phrases 4b. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1580 A. Saker Narbonus 90 The common saying is: after you is maners.

1650 R. Heath Epigrams 33, in Clarastella Oh! after him is manners.

a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iii. vii. 61 in Five New Playes (1659) Cur. Wilt thou be a Scholar? Andr. After you is manners. Cur. Now by mine intellect, discreetly spoken.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 42 After you is good Manners. Spoken when our Betters offer to serve us first.

1798 J. O'Keeffe Czar Peter iii. ii, in Dramatic Wks. III. 192 Stop, friend! after me is manners.

1849 Southern Cross (Auckland, N.Z.) 16 Oct. ‘Come, then, you begin.’ ‘No, you.’ ‘After you is manners.’

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xiv. 139 I remember the fine-company style of Tildor's tea-party, ‘After you's manners’, whenever we passed the plate.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 472 (He stands aside at the threshold.) After you is good manners.

b. after you: a polite formula used in yielding precedence; ‘you go first’. Also with with: used to request the next turn with (something).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > in yielding precedence

after you1734

1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. xi. 36 After you, Sir; I am not quite unbred.

1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 37 After you, Sir.

1851 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 590/1 After you with the paper, if you please, sir.

1898 B. M. Croker Peggy of Bartons xvii. 172 No, no; after you, please—ladies first.

1917 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 408/2 After you with the fire, mate.

1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. iii. 152 Taught 'em to bow and stand aside, Say: after you, and: if you please.

2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black (2006) ix. 291 They arrived in the utility room at the same time..and stood saying coldly, after you, no, after you.

P5. to be after.

(a) To be trying to get or achieve (something).

ΚΠ

1680 W. Petyt Britannia Languens v. 59 The French and Dutch have been after our Wooll since they set up their Woollen Manufactures; why have they and their Agents been lurking on our Coasts..to filch it away for so many years?

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. ii. 152 What tricks are you after now?

1895 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 581/2 I wonder what he is after?

1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 49 That's all she's after—the title.

2001 K. Sampson Outlaws (2002) 239 I'm after a full ounce of the pure Chanel No. 5 perfume.

(b) To be in pursuit of (a person), esp. with hostile intent; to be trying to get into the company of (a person).In quot. 1856: to attend to, keep watch upon (a person). Cf. to look after —— 4a at look v. Phrasal verbs 2, to see after —— 1 at see v. Phrasal verbs 2.

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1796 G. Walker Theodore Cyphon (ed. 2) III. ii. 36 I'm after a d—d cunning fellow, who, I believe, is not always above ground.

1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. vii. 67 You are a little bit of a sloven, and..some one must be always after you.

1885 ‘P. Cushing’ Woman with Secret III. iii. xi. 226 I'm after a Mr. Montaigne as lives thereabouts. Maybe you could direct me to his place?

1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xv. 158 A Mr. Skully, a former landlord, is after me for money.

2006 L. Soderlind Chasing Montana 74 Maybe I was after every woman I ever saw.

(c) To urge (a person) repeatedly to do something; to nag or harass (a person) about something.

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1859 W. B. Fowle Free Speaker 295 Mother and the parson are after me to go to the Sunday-school, but I won't go.

1866 W. M. Baker Inside iv. 29/2 Not a day, not an hour of the day, but his old companions were after him to enlist.

1915 O. M. Shackelforth Lillian Simmons xviii. 179 I have been after him about being so unconcerned about the future and I referred to you as an example.

1984 Times 11 Oct. 2/2 His suppliers will be after him to increase the price he pays for their parts.

2005 L. R. Burge Singing River Story xii. 141 Romy's been after me for years about my old Chevy here, but I know she's a good solid piece of American steelwork.

b. Chiefly Irish English. With gerund. [Reflecting a construction of the Irish perfective aspect, which is formed with the verb bí be v. (originally in any tense) and a preposition or prepositional phrase with the sense ‘after’ (originally iar, ar, air ‘after’ (Early Irish íar , ar : see ier-oe n.), since the 18th cent. usually tar éis, d'éis (and variants of these), or i ndiaidh), followed by a verbal noun. In Irish, this scope of this construction narrowed in the course of the 18th and 19th cent. and it is now chiefly used to refer to completed actions in the immediate past; in Scottish Gaelic, by contrast, the construction bi to be + air + verbal noun has come to function as the regular perfect tense (compare also the regular modern Welsh perfect tense formed with bod to be + wedi ‘after’ + verbal noun).

The earliest uses of this construction in Irish English refer to future events. In e.g. quot. 1682 at Phrases 5b(b) this corresponds to standard English ‘will have been’ and is within the semantic and grammatical range of the Irish construction at the time; the later narrowing in sense of Phrases 5b(b) to the immediate past mirrors the same development within Irish. The early uses in Phrases 5b(a) probably developed from this (within English), although they are attested slightly earlier. They disappear in parallel with the narrowing of the perfective uses in Irish and Irish English, but are occasionally found later in the speech of stereotypes in works written outside Ireland. Compare discussion in R. Hickey Irish Eng. (2007) 197–208.

The construction is found in Irish English and in varieties of English in other parts of the world (especially North America), which were influenced by Irish English. It is also found in the English of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, where it reflects the equivalent construction in Scottish Gaelic.]

(a) To be in the act of, on the point of, desirous of (doing something).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > future [preposition] > on the point of

on (also upon) the point of1608

to be afterc1670

c1670 Purgatorium Hibernicum (National Libr. Ireland MS 470) in A. Carpenter Verse Travesty in Restoration Ireland (2013) 97 Ffen beggars must be after chooseing.

1715 S. Centlivre Wife well Managed 3 An will you be after giving me the Moidore indeed, and by my Shoul now?

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. iv. iii. 99 The Irishman..utterly refused to be after fighting in any such manner.

1827 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times I. 208 Then it's fitter..for you to be after putting your sign there in your pocket.

a1897 F. B. Lloyd Sketches Country Life (1898) xxi. 138 He was after savin lost souls and was willin to let other men save the country.

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee viii. 93 ‘Gorrah!’ exclaimed Mrs. O'Callaghan. ‘Is he after makin' me drunk?’

(b) To have completed the action of, to have just finished (doing something).In early use frequently with reference to future events (cf. quot. 1682); in later use chiefly retrospective.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (intransitive)] > have just executed or performed something

to be after1682

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [preposition] > after or just (done something)

to be after1682

1682 T. Shadwell Lancashire-witches v. 63 When I do go home, I vill be after being absolv'd for it.

1725 Proc. Old Bailey 7 Apr. 7/2 I wash after asking her which Way she wash walking.

1796 Proc. Old Bailey 14 Sept. 781/2 He was after coming from the country.

1828 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland II. 74 It is not every lady..that would be after making [sc. would have made] such an offer.

1847 A. Trollope Macdermots II. i. 17 Thank ye, Mr. Kelly, but I am afther taking a little jist now.

1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel viii. 169 They were after hangin' a lad up at the jail.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 288 Sure I'm after seeing him not five minutes ago.

?1930 L. MacInnes Dial. S. Kintyre 16 Dae ye ken whut he's jist efter tellin' me.

1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool xxv. 260 If it wasn't the turnips it was the pigs were after breaking loose, or a hen they wanted me help catch for the fowl dealer.

1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy i. 125 Well, I was after living through the winter and on the ninth I would be seventeen.

1985 M. Munro Patter 6 Ah'm just after being tae the doctor's.

1997 C. McPherson Weir 40 Sure, you were after getting a terrible shock.

P6. after me (also us) the deluge: = après moi le déluge phr. [After French après moi le déluge après moi le déluge phr.]

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1755 J. Mills tr. J. B. L. Crevier Hist. Rom. Emperors II. vi. 415 He [sc. Tiberius] had frequently in his mouth a Greek verse, whose sense answers to the expression now in use, to shew an indifference to the human species, After me the deluge [Fr. Après moi le déluge].

1851 Times 10 Apr. 5/5 ‘After me the deluge,’ said Prince Metternich—a fine saying, but a false prophecy we trust.

1875 E. S. Carr Patrons of Husb. on Pacific Coast iii. 25 Wherever the selfish pursuit of profit, the vile principle ‘After us the Deluge’, has been the ruling motive, the deluge has followed.

1922 R. Hichens December Love i. 53 That noticeable and almost reckless egoism which is summed up by the laconic saying, ‘after me the deluge’.

1979 J. Crosby Party of Year xxv. 162 We are the last survivors..expiring in a shower of expensive sparks. After us, the Deluge.

2008 A. Martin tr. R. F. Monzote From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba 272 [He] lamented that the attitude of producers was one of ‘after me the deluge’.

P7.

after-the-event adj. occurring or performed after a particular event, frequently with the implication of being too late; characterized by retrospectivity.

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1872 T. Wright Grainger's Thorn I. i. vii. 188 There was not wanting a number of the after-the-event school of prophets, who..had ‘known what it would all come to’, and had ‘told you so’.

1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) iv. 69 ‘We di'n't ought to have set off before dinner,’ said the squire with after-the-event wisdom.

2007 R. E. S. Tanner Violence & Relig. iii. 52 Religion becomes for Christians no more than the subject for after-the-event evaluations.

单词	to be after
释义	> as lemmas to be after Phrases P1. after one's own heart: see heart n. 7. P2. after the flesh: see flesh n. 12. †P3. after the hand: after the event; afterwards. Cf. afterhand adv. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 893 (MED) Bot whanne he hath his cause lore, Thanne is he wys after the hond. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. xxii. 586 This part must be made reasonable stiffe, because the weake paste euer falleth after the hand. P4. a. after you is manners and variants: a polite formula used (frequently humorously or self-consciously) in yielding precedence. Cf. after you at Phrases 4b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1580 A. Saker Narbonus 90 The common saying is: after you is maners. 1650 R. Heath Epigrams 33, in Clarastella Oh! after him is manners. a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iii. vii. 61 in Five New Playes (1659) Cur. Wilt thou be a Scholar? Andr. After you is manners. Cur. Now by mine intellect, discreetly spoken. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 42 After you is good Manners. Spoken when our Betters offer to serve us first. 1798 J. O'Keeffe Czar Peter iii. ii, in Dramatic Wks. III. 192 Stop, friend! after me is manners. 1849 Southern Cross (Auckland, N.Z.) 16 Oct. ‘Come, then, you begin.’ ‘No, you.’ ‘After you is manners.’ 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xiv. 139 I remember the fine-company style of Tildor's tea-party, ‘After you's manners’, whenever we passed the plate. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 472 (He stands aside at the threshold.) After you is good manners. b. after you: a polite formula used in yielding precedence; ‘you go first’. Also with with: used to request the next turn with (something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > in yielding precedence after you1734 1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. xi. 36 After you, Sir; I am not quite unbred. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 37 After you, Sir. 1851 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 590/1 After you with the paper, if you please, sir. 1898 B. M. Croker Peggy of Bartons xvii. 172 No, no; after you, please—ladies first. 1917 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 408/2 After you with the fire, mate. 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. iii. 152 Taught 'em to bow and stand aside, Say: after you, and: if you please. 2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black (2006) ix. 291 They arrived in the utility room at the same time..and stood saying coldly, after you, no, after you. P5. to be after. a. (a) To be trying to get or achieve (something). ΚΠ 1680 W. Petyt Britannia Languens v. 59 The French and Dutch have been after our Wooll since they set up their Woollen Manufactures; why have they and their Agents been lurking on our Coasts..to filch it away for so many years? 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. ii. 152 What tricks are you after now? 1895 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 581/2 I wonder what he is after? 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 49 That's all she's after—the title. 2001 K. Sampson Outlaws (2002) 239 I'm after a full ounce of the pure Chanel No. 5 perfume. (b) To be in pursuit of (a person), esp. with hostile intent; to be trying to get into the company of (a person).In quot. 1856: to attend to, keep watch upon (a person). Cf. to look after —— 4a at look v. Phrasal verbs 2, to see after —— 1 at see v. Phrasal verbs 2. ΚΠ 1796 G. Walker Theodore Cyphon (ed. 2) III. ii. 36 I'm after a d—d cunning fellow, who, I believe, is not always above ground. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. vii. 67 You are a little bit of a sloven, and..some one must be always after you. 1885 ‘P. Cushing’ Woman with Secret III. iii. xi. 226 I'm after a Mr. Montaigne as lives thereabouts. Maybe you could direct me to his place? 1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xv. 158 A Mr. Skully, a former landlord, is after me for money. 2006 L. Soderlind Chasing Montana 74 Maybe I was after every woman I ever saw. (c) To urge (a person) repeatedly to do something; to nag or harass (a person) about something. ΚΠ 1859 W. B. Fowle Free Speaker 295 Mother and the parson are after me to go to the Sunday-school, but I won't go. 1866 W. M. Baker Inside iv. 29/2 Not a day, not an hour of the day, but his old companions were after him to enlist. 1915 O. M. Shackelforth Lillian Simmons xviii. 179 I have been after him about being so unconcerned about the future and I referred to you as an example. 1984 Times 11 Oct. 2/2 His suppliers will be after him to increase the price he pays for their parts. 2005 L. R. Burge Singing River Story xii. 141 Romy's been after me for years about my old Chevy here, but I know she's a good solid piece of American steelwork. b. Chiefly Irish English. With gerund. [Reflecting a construction of the Irish perfective aspect, which is formed with the verb bí be v. (originally in any tense) and a preposition or prepositional phrase with the sense ‘after’ (originally iar, ar, air ‘after’ (Early Irish íar , ar : see ier-oe n.), since the 18th cent. usually tar éis, d'éis (and variants of these), or i ndiaidh), followed by a verbal noun. In Irish, this scope of this construction narrowed in the course of the 18th and 19th cent. and it is now chiefly used to refer to completed actions in the immediate past; in Scottish Gaelic, by contrast, the construction bi to be + air + verbal noun has come to function as the regular perfect tense (compare also the regular modern Welsh perfect tense formed with bod to be + wedi ‘after’ + verbal noun). The earliest uses of this construction in Irish English refer to future events. In e.g. quot. 1682 at Phrases 5b(b) this corresponds to standard English ‘will have been’ and is within the semantic and grammatical range of the Irish construction at the time; the later narrowing in sense of Phrases 5b(b) to the immediate past mirrors the same development within Irish. The early uses in Phrases 5b(a) probably developed from this (within English), although they are attested slightly earlier. They disappear in parallel with the narrowing of the perfective uses in Irish and Irish English, but are occasionally found later in the speech of stereotypes in works written outside Ireland. Compare discussion in R. Hickey Irish Eng. (2007) 197–208. The construction is found in Irish English and in varieties of English in other parts of the world (especially North America), which were influenced by Irish English. It is also found in the English of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, where it reflects the equivalent construction in Scottish Gaelic.] (a) To be in the act of, on the point of, desirous of (doing something). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > future [preposition] > on the point of on (also upon) the point of1608 to be afterc1670 c1670 Purgatorium Hibernicum (National Libr. Ireland MS 470) in A. Carpenter Verse Travesty in Restoration Ireland (2013) 97 Ffen beggars must be after chooseing. 1715 S. Centlivre Wife well Managed 3 An will you be after giving me the Moidore indeed, and by my Shoul now? 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. iv. iii. 99 The Irishman..utterly refused to be after fighting in any such manner. 1827 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times I. 208 Then it's fitter..for you to be after putting your sign there in your pocket. a1897 F. B. Lloyd Sketches Country Life (1898) xxi. 138 He was after savin lost souls and was willin to let other men save the country. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee viii. 93 ‘Gorrah!’ exclaimed Mrs. O'Callaghan. ‘Is he after makin' me drunk?’ (b) To have completed the action of, to have just finished (doing something).In early use frequently with reference to future events (cf. quot. 1682); in later use chiefly retrospective. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (intransitive)] > have just executed or performed something to be after1682 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [preposition] > after or just (done something) to be after1682 1682 T. Shadwell Lancashire-witches v. 63 When I do go home, I vill be after being absolv'd for it. 1725 Proc. Old Bailey 7 Apr. 7/2 I wash after asking her which Way she wash walking. 1796 Proc. Old Bailey 14 Sept. 781/2 He was after coming from the country. 1828 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland II. 74 It is not every lady..that would be after making [sc. would have made] such an offer. 1847 A. Trollope Macdermots II. i. 17 Thank ye, Mr. Kelly, but I am afther taking a little jist now. 1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel viii. 169 They were after hangin' a lad up at the jail. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 288 Sure I'm after seeing him not five minutes ago. ?1930 L. MacInnes Dial. S. Kintyre 16 Dae ye ken whut he's jist efter tellin' me. 1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool xxv. 260 If it wasn't the turnips it was the pigs were after breaking loose, or a hen they wanted me help catch for the fowl dealer. 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy i. 125 Well, I was after living through the winter and on the ninth I would be seventeen. 1985 M. Munro Patter 6 Ah'm just after being tae the doctor's. 1997 C. McPherson Weir 40 Sure, you were after getting a terrible shock. P6. after me (also us) the deluge: = après moi le déluge phr. [After French après moi le déluge après moi le déluge phr.] ΚΠ 1755 J. Mills tr. J. B. L. Crevier Hist. Rom. Emperors II. vi. 415 He [sc. Tiberius] had frequently in his mouth a Greek verse, whose sense answers to the expression now in use, to shew an indifference to the human species, After me the deluge [Fr. Après moi le déluge]. 1851 Times 10 Apr. 5/5 ‘After me the deluge,’ said Prince Metternich—a fine saying, but a false prophecy we trust. 1875 E. S. Carr Patrons of Husb. on Pacific Coast iii. 25 Wherever the selfish pursuit of profit, the vile principle ‘After us the Deluge’, has been the ruling motive, the deluge has followed. 1922 R. Hichens December Love i. 53 That noticeable and almost reckless egoism which is summed up by the laconic saying, ‘after me the deluge’. 1979 J. Crosby Party of Year xxv. 162 We are the last survivors..expiring in a shower of expensive sparks. After us, the Deluge. 2008 A. Martin tr. R. F. Monzote From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba 272 [He] lamented that the attitude of producers was one of ‘after me the deluge’. P7. after-the-event adj. occurring or performed after a particular event, frequently with the implication of being too late; characterized by retrospectivity. ΚΠ 1872 T. Wright Grainger's Thorn I. i. vii. 188 There was not wanting a number of the after-the-event school of prophets, who..had ‘known what it would all come to’, and had ‘told you so’. 1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) iv. 69 ‘We di'n't ought to have set off before dinner,’ said the squire with after-the-event wisdom. 2007 R. E. S. Tanner Violence & Relig. iii. 52 Religion becomes for Christians no more than the subject for after-the-event evaluations. extracted from afteradv.prep.conj. < as lemmas
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