| 单词 | to lose one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lose one's way e. To cease to follow (the right track); also, to cease to find (traces of a person, etc.). Chiefly in to lose one's way (literal and figurative). †Of a river: To diverge from (its channel). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > lose (the way) lose1530 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > miss one's way > be lost maska1387 willc1390 mara1450 to lose one's way1530 to walk will of one's way1572 wilder1658 maroon1699 to get slewed1929 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 771/1 I wander, as one dothe that hath loste his waye. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. viii. 20 They had willingly lost their course. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey ii. 94 Nor is it a thing extraordinary for riuers to lose their channels. 1709 M. Prior Cloe Hunting 3 She lost her way, And thro' the Woods uncertain chanc'd to stray. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 373 Pepys and his wife, travelling in their own coach, lost their way between Newbury and Reading. 1893 Family Herald 132/1 After she had walked a little farther, she lost trail altogether. < as lemmas |
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