| 单词 | to break a person's measures |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break a person's measures a. In plural. Esp. in to take (also adopt, †follow, pursue) measures [after French prendre des mesures (1640)] : to take actions or steps in order to achieve some purpose. †to break a person's measures [compare French rompre (ses) mesures (1655)] : to frustrate a person's plans (obsolete). †in the measures of: privy to the plans of (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > an act or deed > an action leading to a result step1549 pacea1628 to take measures1698 measure1767 the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan redeeOE devicec1290 casta1300 went1303 ordinancec1385 intentc1386 imaginationa1393 drifta1535 draught1535 forecast1535 platform1547 ground-plat?a1560 table1560 convoy1565 design1565 plat1574 ground-plota1586 plot1587 reach1587 theory1593 game1595 projectment1611 projecting1616 navation1628 approach1633 view1634 plan1635 systema1648 sophism1657 manage1667 brouillon1678 speculationa1684 sketch1697 to take measures1698 method1704 scheme1704 lines1760 outline1760 measure1767 restorative1821 ground plan1834 strategy1834 programme1837 ticket1842 project1849 outline plan1850 layout1867 draft1879 dart1882 lurk1916 schema1939 lick1955 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 51 By the Measures they follow, this also in time must fall into their hands. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 185 We agreed there in an instant to take our measures about it. 1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule i. i. 323 On purpose to defeat My close Contrivances, and break my Measures. ?1710 Squire Bickerstaff Detected 8 [He] has paid his Visits to St. Germains, and is now in the Measures of Lewis the XIV. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1734) II. 360 He pursued the Measures, which he had begun to take, of raising new Divisions in that Kingdom. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 356 My Measures being fix'd..for Arch-Angel, and not to Muscovy. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxix. 151 He took measures for kindling a war with England. 1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Mass.-Bay iii. 297 This rupture with the Indians broke his measures. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 476 Pondicherry was the object of importance; and it was resolved to lose no time in taking measures for its reduction. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xvi. 313 The besiegers..would endeavour..to draw the chief part of the defenders' observations to this point, and take measures to avail themselves of every negligence which might take place in the defence elsewhere. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §4. 494 The measures of Laud soon revived the panic of the Puritans. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 604 To assist the external measures by internal medication. 1940 A. Koestler Darkness at Noon i. vii. 23 The usual disciplinary measures will have to be applied to you. 1967 R. K. Narayan Sweet-vendor vii. 100 We are only trying some new measures to meet the competition. 1987 P. Lomas Limits of Interpretation viii. 91 Defensive measures are taken to..ward off further intrusions from the external world. < as lemmas |
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