单词 | to come to meet |
释义 | > as lemmasto come (also go, run, etc.) to meet b. transitive. To arrive deliberately, or as previously arranged, in the presence of (an approaching person, etc.) from the opposite or a different direction. Frequently in to come (also go, run, etc.) to meet. Also: to go somewhere in order to be present at the arrival of (a traveller, train, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > meet or encounter [verb (transitive)] > coming from another direction (of person) meeteOE to come (also go, run, etc.) to meeta1325 nose1816 to bump into ——1894 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > meet or encounter [verb (transitive)] > as intended result of going to to meet withc1300 meeta1325 join1713 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1790 Ðat stede he calde manaim, Ðor ðis wird of engeles metten him. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 10555 Þi lauerd es comand als suith, Ga to mete him. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 62 Till Noramkirk he come withoutyn mar. The consell than of Scotland mett hym thar. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Acts x. 25 Cornelius came to meete him, and falling at his feete adored. a1600 Sonnge Sir A. Barton in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 74 To might my Lord came the kinge and quen. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 91 Good signior Leonato, are you come to meet your trouble: the fashion of the world is, to auoyd cost, and you incounter it. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 86 Ile appoint my men to carry the basket againe, to meete him at the doore with it. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cx. 28 As, in a drought, the thirsty creatures cry, And gape upon the gather'd clowds for rain, And first the Martlet meets it in the sky. 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §97 Bid your servant meet you at such a time. 1755 T. Turner Diary 2 Oct. (1984) (modernized text) 15 My brother Moses came and called me to go to Lewes to meet the Manchesterman. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xiii. 34 Then stepped to meet that noble lord, Sir Hugh the Heron bold. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Let. July (1967) III. 955 I could get you met by a trap at Lechlade station. 1894 A. Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes 49 I'll meet the seven o'clock train and take no steps till you arrive. 1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1049 The Hotel omnibus meets the principal London trains. 1992 B. Anderson Portrait of Artist's Wife (1993) ii. 37 She ran to meet Nelson each afternoon when he appeared at the kitchen door. < as lemmas |
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