| 单词 | to drive at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drive at —— to drive at —— ΚΠ 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale i. iii. f. 9v Man therefore, naturally beyng commonable..driueth at the societie and communitie of life. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. ix. 37 Driving at these as at the highest elegancies, which are but the frigidities of wit. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 182 He..is driving at the Popedom. 1788 J. Madison Let. 10 Jan. in Writings (1904) V. 80 You are better acquainted with Mr. Henry's politics than I can be, but I have for some time considered him as driving at a Southern Confederacy. 1859 Sat. Rev. 5 Mar. 271/2 That end which all religions and governments and philosophies..have been in vain driving at for these weary six thousand years. 2. intransitive. To aim or direct one's comments, criticisms, etc., at (a person or thing). Later (in direct or indirect questions with what as subject or object): to have (a particular thing) as the meaning or purpose of one's speech or writings. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] willeOE meaneOE minteOE i-muntec1000 thinkOE ettlea1200 intenta1300 meanc1330 forn-castc1374 intendc1374 ettlea1400 drive1425 proposec1425 purpose1433 attend1455 suppose1474 pretend1477 mindc1478 minda1513 pretence1565 appurpose1569 to drive at ——1574 thought to1578 hight1579 pretent1587 fore-intend1622 pre-intend1647 design1655 study1663 contemplate1794 purport1803 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 51 Whylest with suche proude wordes you seeke to dryue at me, you doe but condemne your selfe of follye. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? To Rdr. Hee driued directly at the Church of England. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 121 The Presbyterians saw what was driven at, and how their words would be understood. 1764 S. Foote Lyar ii. 30 What can he be driving at now! 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. viii. 262 Mankind at large..will not even listen to a word about these propositions, unless it first learns what their author was driving at. 1946 C. Bush Case Second Chance (1948) i. 28 ‘I still don't see what you're driving at,’ George told me impatiently. 2005 M. Lockwood Labyrinth of Time (2007) ix. 219 That this is what Wittgenstein is driving at in his talk of ‘logical space’ is unfortunately obscured. < as lemmas |
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