| 单词 | to get ahead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get ahead to get ahead 1. intransitive. To make progress, meet with success. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > advance or make progress furtherc1200 profit1340 to go alongc1400 to get forward1523 advance1577 proceedc1592 to take or make strides1600 to get on1655 to get along1768 to get ahead1807 to be well away1821 to get somewhere (also anywhere)1923 ramp1980 1807 R. Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 190 I have better hopes than I ever yet had of getting ahead. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 136 Bullies are cowards, and one coward makes many; so good-bye to the School-house match if bullying gets ahead here. 1909 A. C. Rice Mr. Opp 30 Have you been putting up cash all this time..Is that why you have never gotten ahead? 1973 B. Rubens Go tell Lemming (1991) iv. 51 He had no grievance against those who got ahead with less talent than himself. 2006 D. Trussoni Falling through Earth (2007) xiv. 252 Working double-time is the only way you'll get ahead in this world. 2. intransitive. Originally U.S. With of. a. To move so as to be in advance of (a person or thing). Frequently figurative.to get ahead of oneself: see ahead adv., prep., and adj. Phrases 3. ΚΠ 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 385 I was working, all the time, to get ahead of Edith. 1834 Jeffersonian (N.Y.) 13 Aug. 2/2 You'll have a big row to hoe, if you get ahead of us next fall. 1874 J. Blackwood Let. 29 Feb. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) VI. 225 From the states you have of Middlemarch you will see that Deronda has already got ahead of its great predecessor. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 11/1 Lashed together and propelled by the outside oars, the two boats shot off in a circular course to get ahead of the fish. 1955 W. W. Denlinger Compl. Boston 173 Any attempt to fudge or finagle or to get ahead of the other fellow will be recognized by the judge for what it is. 2003 BusinessWeek 27 Oct. 50/1 Specialists..get ahead of the pack by buying or selling shares for their own accounts. b. To clear oneself from (a debt). ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 380/2 There are many who have incurred a tally debt, and have never been able to ‘get a-head of it’, but have been kept poor by it all their lives. 1917 U. Sinclair King Coal iv. 366 In the year and more that he had worked, faithfully and persistently, to get out coal for Peter Harrigan, he had never once been able to get ahead of his bill for the necessities of life at Old Peter's store. 1983 L. R. Miller & K. Gilman Horses at Work 134 Their energies were spent to pay the enormous principal and interest to the bank. They were never able to get ahead of their debt. 2011 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 Sept. (Business section) 57 The vast majority of those borrowers who report feeling stressed over their mortgage..are keeping up payments, with 41 per cent getting ahead of their repayments in the past year. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。