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单词 to come up with
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to come up with
a. to come up with: to come alongside or abreast of, to reach; to catch up with. Also figurative. Now archaic and rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move or cause to move forward or advance [verb (transitive)] > advance to come abreast of
to come up with1592
1592 H. Roberts Our Ladys Retorne to Eng. sig. *3 Thus neere six a clock in the euening the caruill parting, the fight bareing rome from them, whose consart was now come vp with them, continuing his course towardes the Ilandes.
1613 R. Cocks Let. 30 Nov. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 97 The 13th ditto we came up w'th the iland of Burro.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 35 Just as Christian came up with the Cross. View more context for this quotation
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 34 Though we followed..a good way, yet did not come up with him.
a1712 W. Edmundson Jrnl. (1715) viii. 67 When we came up with the Land of Ireland the Wind turn'd North-East.
1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Hist. Europe 55/2 Tarleton came up with his enemy at eight in the morning.
1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. x. 410 She [sc. a sailing-ship] comes up with us hand over fist.
1841 R. W. Emerson Essays x. 310 Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations... As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
1908 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 213/2 I started in pursuit, and next morning came up with the fugitives.
1930 Boys' Life Mar. 9/1 Britannus came up with him just as he was ready for a second throw, ducked under the net and lunged.
2006 G. S. Beard Mr Midshipman Fury 2007 v. 77 We'll be luffing again shortly to avoid having the Otter crossing our stern and he'd like the larboard guns ready for firing as she comes up with us.
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to come up with
21. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). to come up with: to produce or provide something (esp. when challenged or pressed); to think of something.See also to come up with the goods at good adj., n., adv., and int. Phrases 7a, to come up with the rations at ration n. Phrases 1.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)]
affordOE
findOE
purveyc1300
chevise1340
ministera1382
upholda1417
supply1456
suppeditate1535
perfurnishc1540
previse1543
subminister1576
tend1578
fourd1581
instaurate1583
to find out1600
suffice1626
subministrate1633
affurnisha1641
apply1747
to stump up1833
to lay on1845
to come up with1858
1858 Hutchings' Calif. Mag. Aug. 86/1 ‘When Bill pungled his thirty better, what did Lem come up with?’ ‘Why Lem he lifted him a cool fifty.’
1887 G. H. Devol Forty Years Gambler on Mississippi 36 I came up with the ice and bet $250 before the draw.
1955 Times 6 Aug. 6/3 President Eisenhower..thought the Secretary of Agriculture soon would be ‘able to come up with something’.
1958 Economist 1 Nov. 392/2 Russia has come up with money that the West clumsily refused.
1970 J. Porter Rather Common Sort of Crime ii. 19 I'll have a ponder about it and, if I come up with anything, I'll let you know.
2013 K. Sampsell This is between Us 203 We came up with all kinds of theories.
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