英语词汇“to go west”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. to go west.

a. Of the sun: to move towards the western horizon; to set, go down.

ΚΠ

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 13365 (MED) For hit was nyght, the sonne goth west.

c1500 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Trin. Cambr.) (1879) l. 61 Assone As the son gynneth go west.

1636 W. Sampson Virtus post Funera Vivit 3 Thou art like the Sunne when he is going West.

a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1821) IV. 198 I can no more turn aright from sin, than I can turn the sun in the firmament that is going west.

1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 693/2 He never rested till the sun was going west.

1862 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands III. lxxvi. 249 Long before the sun went west, the young King of Lochlann was levelled, bound, and fettered.

1922 H. Bindloss Northwest! xvi. 144 Since noon until the sun went west and shadow crept across the mountain, he and the Indian had crouched behind a shelf.

2006 W. H. Henderson Augusta Locke 263 I see the rocks set in the sky, and maybe the sun going west, and the trees getting dark.

(a) Originally Scottish (figurative) To die.The sense became widespread during the First World War (1914–18). The relationship between quot. a1532 and the later evidence has not been firmly established. [Apparently ultimately with reference to the west as the place of the setting sun and perhaps also to its identification (esp. in Celtic traditions) as the abode of the dead. The uses at Phrases 1b(b) probably show a further development of this sense. There is probably no foundation to the suggestion that either sense results from folk-etymological alteration of go whist in the following quotation (compare whist int.¹; apparently here intended to convey sudden disappearance):

1899 Overland Monthly Sept. 288/2 Fifteen men of a whole ship's list..Dead and bedamned—and the rest gone whist!

]

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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]

forsweltc888

sweltc888

adeadeOE

deadc950

wendeOE

i-wite971

starveOE

witea1000

forfereOE

forthfareOE

forworthc1000

to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE

queleOE

fallOE

to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE

to shed (one's own) blood?a1100

diec1135

endc1175

farec1175

to give up the ghostc1175

letc1200

aswelta1250

leavea1250

to-sweltc1275

to-worthc1275

to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290

finea1300

spilla1300

part?1316

to leese one's life-daysa1325

to nim the way of deathc1325

to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330

flit1340

trance1340

determinec1374

disperisha1382

to go the way of all the eartha1382

to be gathered to one's fathers1382

miscarryc1387

shut1390

goa1393

to die upa1400

expirea1400

fleea1400

to pass awaya1400

to seek out of lifea1400–50

to sye hethena1400

tinea1400

trespass14..

espirec1430

to end one's days?a1439

decease1439

to go away?a1450

ungoc1450

unlivec1450

to change one's lifea1470

vade1495

depart1501

to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513

to decease this world1515

to go over?1520

jet1530

vade1530

to go westa1532

to pick over the perch1532

galpa1535

to die the death1535

to depart to God1548

to go home1561

mort1568

inlaikc1575

shuffle1576

finish1578

to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587

relent1587

unbreathe1589

transpass1592

to lose one's breath1596

to make a die (of it)1611

to go offa1616

fail1623

to go out1635

to peak over the percha1641

exita1652

drop1654

to knock offa1657

to kick upa1658

to pay nature her due1657

ghost1666

to march off1693

to die off1697

pike1697

to drop off1699

tip (over) the perch1699

to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703

sink1718

vent1718

to launch into eternity1719

to join the majority1721

demise1727

to pack off1735

to slip one's cable1751

turf1763

to move off1764

to pop off the hooks1764

to hop off1797

to pass on1805

to go to glory1814

sough1816

to hand in one's accounts1817

to slip one's breatha1819

croak1819

to slip one's wind1819

stiffen1820

weed1824

buy1825

to drop short1826

to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839

to get one's (also the) call1839

to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840

to unreeve one's lifeline1840

to step out1844

to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845

to hand in one's checks1845

to go off the handle1848

to go under1848

succumb1849

to turn one's toes up1851

to peg out1852

walk1858

snuff1864

to go or be up the flume1865

to pass outc1867

to cash in one's chips1870

to go (also pass over) to the majority1883

to cash in1884

to cop it1884

snuff1885

to belly up1886

perch1886

to kick the bucket1889

off1890

to knock over1892

to pass over1897

to stop one1901

to pass in1904

to hand in one's marble1911

the silver cord is loosed1911

pip1913

to cross over1915

conk1917

to check out1921

to kick off1921

to pack up1925

to step off1926

to take the ferry1928

peg1931

to meet one's Maker1933

to kiss off1935

to crease it1959

zonk1968

cark1977

to cark it1979

to take a dirt nap1981

a1532 in G. S. Stevenson Pieces from Makculloch & Gray MSS (1918) vi. 42 Women and mony wilsome wy as wynd or wattir ar gane west.

1833 Johnstone's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 89/1 The Irish, and the Scottish Highlanders, always describe persons lately dead as having gone west.

1914 Times 31 Dec. 4/2 Does any one know the origin or meaning of the soldiers' curious phrase for death, ‘Going West’?

1942 J. Masefield Land Workers 9 The oldest men still daily wore The smocks of centuries before, Each fairly needled on the chest By loving hands long since gone west.

2008 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 17 June a9 Jack has ‘gone west’. He died peacefully in the loving arms of his son.

(b) To be lost or destroyed; to disappear, vanish; to end in failure, come to grief. [Compare note at Phrases 1b(a).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear

formeltc893

wendOE

witea1000

aworthc1000

fleec1200

fleetc1200

withdraw1297

vanish1303

voidc1374

unkithea1400

startc1405

disappearc1425

disparishc1425

to fall awayc1443

evanish?a1475

vade1495

sinka1500

vade1530

fly1535

fadea1538

melt?1567

dispear1600

relinquish1601

foist1603

dispersea1616

to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616

dissipate1626

retire1647

evaporate1713

merge1802

illude1820

to foam off1826

dislimn1833

furl1844

to step out1844

evanesce1855

shade1880

wisp1883

to go to the winds1884

walk1898

to do a disappearing act1913

to go west1916

to do (or take) a fade1949

to phase out1970

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 167 The glare of a burning house shone red in the sky over the roof tops. ‘Somebody's 'appy 'ome gone west’, remarked one man.

1919 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 368/2 Their parcels..went persistently ‘west’.

1925 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Death of Millionaire vi. 57 Wilson sighed. ‘There's valuable evidence gone west’, he said. ‘It may be hard to pick up the trail now.’

1976 R. Lehmann Sea-grape Tree (1982) 42 I had a dinky one [sc. a handkerchief], but it went west earlier this evening. Soaked, dear.

1996 Observer 31 Mar. 1/3 An estimated £200 million went west in an unprecedented gambling spree.

c. go west, young man: used as an encouragement to seek fortune in the American West; also in extended use.Attributed to Horace Greeley, who, according to Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, gave the latter this advice in September 1851 (see quot. 1891).

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1838 H. Greeley in New-Yorker 25 Aug. 361/1 If any young man is about to commence the world, with little in his circumstances to prepossess him in favor of one section or another, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West: there your capacities are sure to be appreciated, and your industry and energy rewarded.

1856 Wisconsin Farmer May 209/1 It reminds me of the advice that Mr. Secretary Corwin gave to a young man that was applying for a clerkship. He said, ‘Young man, go West’.]

1870 ‘O. C. Kerr’ in Punchinello 20 Aug. 323/1 Go West, young man! Buy a good, stout farming outfit..and then go out to the far West upon Government-land.

1879 W. Saunders Through Light Cont. 35 ‘Go West, young man,’ was Horace Greeley's advice, and West I went accordingly.

1891 J. B. Grinnell Men & Events of Forty Years vi. 86 [Horace Greeley said:] ‘Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.’

1917 Munsey's Mag. June 90 Take up that challenge since the world began—Go West, young man!

1961 Times 6 Dec. 4/6 Go West, young man, is the traditional exhortation to aspiring professionals facing a quiet English winter.

1992 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Dec. e1 Go west, young man. But stop before you get to California.

P2. by west: see by prep. 9c.

P3. up West: in or into the West End of London.

ΚΠ

1874 R. Jefferies Scarlet Shawl iv. 64 He did not know what to do when he got there [sc. London]. He had a large place of his own up West, but it was just as empty as the other in the country.

1905 W. E. Cameron Towns & Types iii. 20 You can get a jolly little supper ‘Up West’ for a guinea, including a bottle of champagne, Chateau de Lower Belgravia.

1959 Times 30 Nov. 14/1 Crowds from the suburbs as well of natives of the West End's fringes..head ‘up West’ in search of theatres, cinemas, and shops open late every Thursday.

2003 J. Kerr in J. Kerr & A. Gibson London from Punk to Blair 19/1 The gangs of patriotic Teddy boys who have come up west from East Ham or Homerton to rid the streets of perverts and misfits.

单词	to go west
释义	> as lemmas to go west Phrases P1. to go west. a. Of the sun: to move towards the western horizon; to set, go down. ΚΠ c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 13365 (MED) For hit was nyght, the sonne goth west. c1500 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Trin. Cambr.) (1879) l. 61 Assone As the son gynneth go west. 1636 W. Sampson Virtus post Funera Vivit 3 Thou art like the Sunne when he is going West. a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1821) IV. 198 I can no more turn aright from sin, than I can turn the sun in the firmament that is going west. 1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 693/2 He never rested till the sun was going west. 1862 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands III. lxxvi. 249 Long before the sun went west, the young King of Lochlann was levelled, bound, and fettered. 1922 H. Bindloss Northwest! xvi. 144 Since noon until the sun went west and shadow crept across the mountain, he and the Indian had crouched behind a shelf. 2006 W. H. Henderson Augusta Locke 263 I see the rocks set in the sky, and maybe the sun going west, and the trees getting dark. b. (a) Originally Scottish (figurative) To die.The sense became widespread during the First World War (1914–18). The relationship between quot. a1532 and the later evidence has not been firmly established. [Apparently ultimately with reference to the west as the place of the setting sun and perhaps also to its identification (esp. in Celtic traditions) as the abode of the dead. The uses at Phrases 1b(b) probably show a further development of this sense. There is probably no foundation to the suggestion that either sense results from folk-etymological alteration of go whist in the following quotation (compare whist int.¹; apparently here intended to convey sudden disappearance): 1899 Overland Monthly Sept. 288/2 Fifteen men of a whole ship's list..Dead and bedamned—and the rest gone whist! ] ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 a1532 in G. S. Stevenson Pieces from Makculloch & Gray MSS (1918) vi. 42 Women and mony wilsome wy as wynd or wattir ar gane west. 1833 Johnstone's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 89/1 The Irish, and the Scottish Highlanders, always describe persons lately dead as having gone west. 1914 Times 31 Dec. 4/2 Does any one know the origin or meaning of the soldiers' curious phrase for death, ‘Going West’? 1942 J. Masefield Land Workers 9 The oldest men still daily wore The smocks of centuries before, Each fairly needled on the chest By loving hands long since gone west. 2008 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 17 June a9 Jack has ‘gone west’. He died peacefully in the loving arms of his son. (b) To be lost or destroyed; to disappear, vanish; to end in failure, come to grief. [Compare note at Phrases 1b(a).] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear formeltc893 wendOE witea1000 aworthc1000 fleec1200 fleetc1200 withdraw1297 vanish1303 voidc1374 unkithea1400 startc1405 disappearc1425 disparishc1425 to fall awayc1443 evanish?a1475 vade1495 sinka1500 vade1530 fly1535 fadea1538 melt?1567 dispear1600 relinquish1601 foist1603 dispersea1616 to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616 dissipate1626 retire1647 evaporate1713 merge1802 illude1820 to foam off1826 dislimn1833 furl1844 to step out1844 evanesce1855 shade1880 wisp1883 to go to the winds1884 walk1898 to do a disappearing act1913 to go west1916 to do (or take) a fade1949 to phase out1970 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 167 The glare of a burning house shone red in the sky over the roof tops. ‘Somebody's 'appy 'ome gone west’, remarked one man. 1919 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 368/2 Their parcels..went persistently ‘west’. 1925 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Death of Millionaire vi. 57 Wilson sighed. ‘There's valuable evidence gone west’, he said. ‘It may be hard to pick up the trail now.’ 1976 R. Lehmann Sea-grape Tree (1982) 42 I had a dinky one [sc. a handkerchief], but it went west earlier this evening. Soaked, dear. 1996 Observer 31 Mar. 1/3 An estimated £200 million went west in an unprecedented gambling spree. c. go west, young man: used as an encouragement to seek fortune in the American West; also in extended use.Attributed to Horace Greeley, who, according to Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, gave the latter this advice in September 1851 (see quot. 1891). ΚΠ 1838 H. Greeley in New-Yorker 25 Aug. 361/1 If any young man is about to commence the world, with little in his circumstances to prepossess him in favor of one section or another, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West: there your capacities are sure to be appreciated, and your industry and energy rewarded. 1856 Wisconsin Farmer May 209/1 It reminds me of the advice that Mr. Secretary Corwin gave to a young man that was applying for a clerkship. He said, ‘Young man, go West’.] 1870 ‘O. C. Kerr’ in Punchinello 20 Aug. 323/1 Go West, young man! Buy a good, stout farming outfit..and then go out to the far West upon Government-land. 1879 W. Saunders Through Light Cont. 35 ‘Go West, young man,’ was Horace Greeley's advice, and West I went accordingly. 1891 J. B. Grinnell Men & Events of Forty Years vi. 86 [Horace Greeley said:] ‘Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.’ 1917 Munsey's Mag. June 90 Take up that challenge since the world began—Go West, young man! 1961 Times 6 Dec. 4/6 Go West, young man, is the traditional exhortation to aspiring professionals facing a quiet English winter. 1992 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Dec. e1 Go west, young man. But stop before you get to California. P2. by west: see by prep. 9c. P3. up West: in or into the West End of London. ΚΠ 1874 R. Jefferies Scarlet Shawl iv. 64 He did not know what to do when he got there [sc. London]. He had a large place of his own up West, but it was just as empty as the other in the country. 1905 W. E. Cameron Towns & Types iii. 20 You can get a jolly little supper ‘Up West’ for a guinea, including a bottle of champagne, Chateau de Lower Belgravia. 1959 Times 30 Nov. 14/1 Crowds from the suburbs as well of natives of the West End's fringes..head ‘up West’ in search of theatres, cinemas, and shops open late every Thursday. 2003 J. Kerr in J. Kerr & A. Gibson London from Punk to Blair 19/1 The gangs of patriotic Teddy boys who have come up west from East Ham or Homerton to rid the streets of perverts and misfits. extracted from westadv.adj.n.¹prep. < as lemmas
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