单词 | to be away |
释义 | > as lemmasto be away b. In predicative use, chiefly as to be away. extracted from awayadv.adj.n. (a) Expressing motion so as to become distant from a place; that is departing or setting off, esp. at speed or in haste.See also to be well away at well adv. and n.4 Phrases 5. ΚΠ 1784 in G. Caw Poet. Museum 152 Sae now they're away for Liddisdale, E'en as fast as they cou'd them hie. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xii. 193 The stag..was away like lightning down the bed of the stream. 1969 A. Cordell Song of Earth (1972) xviii. 159 I..gave the heels to the big grey mare, and we were away. 2005 C. Cleave Incendiary 159 Follow me. Petra was away. She was dashing between the racks grabbing clothes off the rails and throwing them over her arms. (b) colloquial and regional (chiefly Scottish and Irish English). Chiefly with the present tense of be. Just going away, about to leave, leaving, e.g. I'm away home now. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb] soonc825 ratheeOE rathelyeOE rekeneOE rekenlyOE thereright971 anonOE forth ona1000 coflyc1000 ferlyc1000 radlyOE swiftlyc1000 unyoreOE yareOE at the forme (also first) wordOE nowOE shortlya1050 rightOE here-rightlOE right anonlOE anonc1175 forthrightc1175 forthwithalc1175 skeetc1175 swithc1175 with and withc1175 anon-rightc1225 anon-rights?c1225 belivec1225 lightly?c1225 quickly?c1225 tidelyc1225 fastlyc1275 hastilyc1275 i-radlichec1275 as soon asc1290 aright1297 bedenea1300 in little wevea1300 withoute(n dwella1300 alrightc1300 as fast (as)c1300 at firstc1300 in placec1300 in the placec1300 mididonec1300 outrightc1300 prestc1300 streck13.. titec1300 without delayc1300 that stounds1303 rada1325 readya1325 apacec1325 albedenec1330 as (also also) titec1330 as blivec1330 as line rightc1330 as straight as linec1330 in anec1330 in presentc1330 newlyc1330 suddenlyc1330 titelyc1330 yernec1330 as soon1340 prestly1340 streckly1340 swithly?1370 evenlya1375 redelya1375 redlya1375 rifelya1375 yeplya1375 at one blastc1380 fresha1382 ripelyc1384 presentc1385 presently1385 without arrestc1385 readilyc1390 in the twinkling of a looka1393 derflya1400 forwhya1400 skeetlya1400 straighta1400 swifta1400 maintenantc1400 out of handc1400 wightc1400 at a startc1405 immediately1420 incontinent1425 there and then1428 onenec1429 forwithc1430 downright?a1439 agatec1440 at a tricec1440 right forth1440 withouten wonec1440 whipc1460 forthwith1461 undelayed1470 incessantly1472 at a momentc1475 right nowc1475 synec1475 incontinently1484 promptly1490 in the nonce?a1500 uncontinent1506 on (upon, in) the instant1509 in short1513 at a clap1519 by and by1526 straightway1526 at a twitch1528 at the first chop1528 maintenantly1528 on a tricea1529 with a tricec1530 at once1531 belively1532 straightwaysa1533 short days1533 undelayedly1534 fro hand1535 indelayedly1535 straight forth1536 betimesc1540 livelyc1540 upononc1540 suddenly1544 at one (or a) dash?1550 at (the) first dash?1550 instantly1552 forth of hand1564 upon the nines1568 on the nail1569 at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572 indilately1572 summarily1578 at one (a) chop1581 amain1587 straightwise1588 extempore1593 presto1598 upon the place1600 directly1604 instant1604 just now1606 with a siserary1607 promiscuously1609 at (in) one (an) instant1611 on (also upon) the momenta1616 at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617 hand to fist1634 fastisha1650 nextly1657 to rights1663 straightaway1663 slap1672 at first bolt1676 point-blank1679 in point1680 offhand1686 instanter1688 sonica1688 flush1701 like a thought1720 in a crack1725 momentary1725 bumbye1727 clacka1734 plumba1734 right away1734 momentarily1739 momentaneously1753 in a snap1768 right off1771 straight an end1778 abruptedly1784 in a whistle1784 slap-bang1785 bang?1795 right off the reel1798 in a whiff1800 in a flash1801 like a shot1809 momently1812 in a brace or couple of shakes1816 in a gird1825 (all) in a rush1829 in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830 straightly1830 toot sweetc1830 in two twos1838 rectly1843 quick-stick1844 short metre1848 right1849 at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854 off the hooks1860 quicksticks1860 straight off1873 bang off1886 away1887 in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890 ek dum1895 tout de suite1895 bung1899 one time1899 prompt1910 yesterday1911 in two ups1934 presto changeo1946 now-now1966 presto change1987 1887 R. L. Stevenson in Leisure Hour Jan. 26 I'm weariet, an' here I'm awa to my bed. 1917 R. Graves Fairies & Fusiliers 24 I'm away to the rain-blown hill. 1985 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 4th Ser. Episode 2. 213 I'm away now, boys. So I'll see you later... I'm off now, Del alright son. 2000 D. Dillon Return of Busby Babes 113 That's us away, she goes and kisses the good bit of his cheek. 2011 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Final ed.) 2 I've been up for hours. I'm away home for a sleep. to be away 7. In predicative use, as to be away. Expressing the condition resulting from deprivation, loss, or extinction: gone (from existence); (formerly) vanished, destroyed, consumed; (now only) dead; in a faint. Now Scottish, Irish English (northern), and Manx English. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adverb] awayOE asleep1297 with one's heels foremost (also forward)1637 irresuscitably1834 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adverb] > vanishingly > vanished awayOE gone with the wind1896 OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) x. 264 Nim wulle & wæt mid biccean hlonde, wrið on þa weartan & on þa wearras; hraþe hi beoð awege. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 616 Noe..sag erðe drie & te water awai. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2504 Our bred, our wyn ys al away. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. l. 623 A blase of fyr, now briht & now away. c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 32 (MED) On quat maner spendutte he his gud, That thusgate is away? 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxxi. 15 Rachel mournynge for hir children, and wolde not be comforted, because they were awaye. a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 36 He marked him, when all thought he was away, to lift upe his hands that war bund befor him. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 150 Your mortal Fae is now awa', Tam Samson's dead! 1818 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Dec. 503/2 My dochter was lang awa [= in a swoon], but whan she cam again, she tauld us, etc. 1990 B. Whyte Red Rowans & Wild Honey (1991) 40 Aye, Maggie, it's been a lang time, and Sandy's awa. to be away 8. In predicative use, chiefly as to be away. extracted from awayadv.adj.n. a. Expressing the state or condition resulting from departure or displacement: gone (from a place); absent (esp. from home, school, or place of work).In quot. OE with worth v.1 and reflexive pronoun in the dative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > [adverb] > of the state resulting from removal awayOE OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Maccabees (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 80 Mathathias..towearp þæt deofolgild, and wearð him awege. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6955 Forrþi wass swiþe wel ðatt iosæp wass aweȝȝe. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2582 Þi wiif is now oway. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2095 Þei..turned aȝein..& told he was a-weie. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 9702 What is wisdome be pees awaye? c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 2657 He was a way when þei lest wend. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Givv Three maie keepe a counsell, if two be awaie. 1647 A. Cowley Spring in Mistress ii How could it be so fair and you away? 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. iii. 22 I must give you a holiday task to learn while I am away. 1915 V. Bell Lett. (1993) 177 I'm afraid that being away will make it almost if not quite impossible for me to do the other dresses. 2001 Cosmopolitan Dec. 172/2 Your sis asks you to take care of her dog while she's away. b. colloquial (originally Australian). In prison. Cf. to put away 2f at put v. Phrasal verbs 1, to go away 5b at go v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1894 A. B. Paterson in Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Dec. 1 I thought a lawyer ought to know—I don't know what to say, You'll have to do without him, boss, for Peter is—away. 1925 S. Scott Human Side Crook Life 299 The world will begin to think that I must have been ‘away’. 2003 New Yorker 18 Aug. 117/1 In northeast Oklahoma City, the question ‘Where he away at’? is widely understood to mean, In what prison is he serving time? c. figurative. colloquial (chiefly Irish English and Scottish). Originally: under the influence of the fairies. Subsequently: mad, out of one's wits, in a world of one's own; in a drunken or drug-induced state. See also Phrases 3. ΚΠ 1899 W. B. Yeats Wind among Reeds 67 Those that are at times ‘away’, as it is called, know all things, but are afraid to speak. 1907 J. M. Synge Aran Islands i. 46 He has seen two women who were ‘away’ with them [sc. the fairies], one a young married woman, the other a girl. 1938 S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin viii. 70 Roisin, looking at him with pain in her eyes, said to her husband, ‘He's away. He must have met the mist and been taken in it.’ 1959 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs i. 3 It was the thought that they thought they could do it made Henry wicked and away. But he should have come out and talked. 1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xi. 206 The user [sc. of barbiturates] experiences a euphoric feeling, reported as being ‘high’, ‘calm’, or ‘away’. 1988 M. Munro Patter: Another Blast 3 The guy's no right in the heid, pal, he's away. < as lemmas |
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