单词 | to follow in a person's steps |
释义 | > as lemmasto follow in a person's steps (or footsteps) P1. to follow in a person's steps (or footsteps) (also to follow a person's steps (or footsteps)) and variants: to do something another person has done before; to treat a person as a guide or authority; to take a person's example as a model. Cf. footstep n. 1b.In quots. OE1, OE2 showing Old English fōt-swæþ footprint. With quot. a1250 cf. tread n. 1.See also to follow the trace at trace n.1 1b. [Compare classical Latin vestīgia sequī (compare quot. OE2).] ΚΠ OE Ælfric Homily (Paris Lat. 943) in R. Brotanek Texte u. Untersuchungen zur altenglischen Lit. u. Kirchengeschichte (1913) 12 Þeos is seo wise stuntnys þæt man woruldþing forseo..& Cristes fotswaðum folgie. OE Hymns (Vesp. D.xii) xxxv. 4 in H. Gneuss Hymnar u. Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter (1968) 303 Eius mortem sequuntur et vestigia per crucem : hys deað hy folgodon & fotswaþa þruh rode. a1250 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Titus) (1940) l. 193 He seð þe folhen hire treoden. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 90 Cassiodorus..mad a nobel werk upon the Sauter, folowyng mech the steppes of Seynt Augustin. 1658 J. Robinson Calm Ventilation Pseudodoxia Epidemica in Endoxa 143 When we follow the steps of dubious guides, we may soon aberre from the way of truth. 1749 J. Brekell Divine Oracles ii. 110 He quotes the fathers promiscuously in behalf of tradition... Thus, like a thorough-paced traditionist he hath closely followed the leading steps of certain writers. 1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation Jesus Christ xiv. 494 The Philosopher of Konigsberg, following in a measure in Plato's steps, took the laws of man's inner nature as an axiomatic foundation in his search after truth. 1909 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 31 The English portrait men of the same period,..although fine painters, simply followed in the tracks of the old masters. 1942 Diamond of Psi Upsilon Jan. 79/1 Jacobs..is following the footsteps of his father as a teacher of the law. 2018 Morning Bull. (Rockhampton, Queensland) (Nexis) 14 May 8 Following in the footsteps of her brothers, Alex and Dominic, Georgiana..has taken this year's Rockhampton Eisteddfod by storm. < as lemmas |
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