| 单词 | to get back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get back to get back 1. a. transitive (reflexive). Originally with uncompounded reflexive pronouns (now archaic). To bring oneself back, bring about one's return; to come back. ΚΠ 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. xxiii. f. cxcixv They streight waie lefte Emaus.., & with greate spede they gotte them backe again to Hierusalem. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 141 Get thee backe to Cæsar. View more context for this quotation 1835 Reformers' Gaz. 28 Feb. 385 To get himself back again to Parliament. 1862 Temple Bar 5 315 Get you back to your inn, good youth. 1886 G. T. Stokes Ireland & Celtic Church (1888) 128 He got himself back to his beloved Iona. 1974 V. D. Gunderson Island Prisoner 31 ‘I'm not keeping her,’ said Daniel. ‘She got herself here and she can get herself back again. I'll not stop her.’ 2009 Hana Hou! (Hawaiian Airlines) Feb. 102/2 The Beverley Hills pooch has to enlist the help of a motley crew of streetwise animals to get herself back home. b. intransitive. To succeed in returning; to come back. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)] to wend againeOE i-cherrec1000 again-chareOE again-comeOE again-fareOE again-goOE eft-sithec1175 to turn againc1175 returna1325 attournec1386 turnc1390 recovera1393 repair?c1400 recourse?a1425 to go backc1425 resortc1425 revertc1475 renew1488 retour?1505 to make return1534 to turn back1538 retend1543 to come short home1548 regress1552 rejourna1556 revolt1567 revolve1587 repeal1596 recur1612 rewend1616 revene1656 to get back1664 to take back1674 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure repaira1325 returna1325 rebounda1382 redounda1382 recovera1393 to go backc1425 revertc1475 renew1488 reverse1542 retire1567 revolve1587 reciprocate1623 retrovert1639 to get back1664 recur1719 hoicks1762 boomerang1900 1664 S. Pepys Diary 22 Nov. (1971) V. 328 They have not victuals to keep them out, and it is likely they will be frozen before they can get back. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 22 If any Disgrace..drive any one away, he is never at rest till he get back again. 1771 Trial Atticus before Justice Beau 17 Chucke. Well, Curnal, I've got back again. Justice. So I see; pray where have you been all this time? 1829 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 3) I. iv. 99 Perhaps you hoped I was got back to England. 1889 Universal Rev. Nov. 360 It was an attempt on the artist's part to get back to nature. 1921 R. Fry Let. 19 Dec. (1972) II. 519 I have just got back to London after my lecture tour in the north of England. 1953 Life 17 Aug. 84/3 ‘Been to Europe, hey?’ a taxi driver said... ‘Must be nice to get back to civilization!’ 1987 B. MacLaverty Great Profundo (1989) 83 ‘I think we'd better be getting back,’ she said. They turned and began to walk towards the car. 2003 R. Herring Talking Cock 208 When we got back to the house, we fell on to the futon and started getting it on. 2. transitive. To succeed in bringing back to oneself or into one's possession; to recover. Cf. to get again at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > again or back acovera1225 covera1300 gain-covera1300 to get againc1380 recovera1387 becoverc1400 recounsel?a1425 recurea1425 win1489 redeem1526 readept1537 rehave1541 recuperate1542 regain1548 reobtain1579 retire1584 reget1585 to get back1587 retrieve1589 reprise1590 reprocure1590 reattain1595 relieve1596 recompassc1604 reacquire1627 reacquist1635 recruit1656 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 66/2 King Henrie was about..to recouer and get backe [1577 bring home again] the portions of his kingdome made away and dismembred by his predecessors. 1698 J. Nisbet Some Doubts & Questions in Law 15 The Earl of Newburgh..did intent a pursuit against Sir William, That he might be free of the Residue and get back his Bond. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 512 For the maltster to get back eighteen shillings in the advanced price of his malt. View more context for this quotation 1808 E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 161 Another considerable estate..was rattled away in one night; but the good old lord contrived to get it back. 1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. (1874) xiii. §7. 245 Venice got back nearly all that she had lost. 1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 189 Austria got back its hold on Italy. 1921 Amer. Woman Jan. 20/1 (advt.) If after trying the garment on you do not find it exactly as we represent it or you expected it to be, you can return it and get your money back at once. 1957 M. McCarthy C'est le Premier Pas Qui Coûte in Memories of Catholic Girlhood (1981) 122 I would have to get my faith back to put an end to this terrible uncertainty. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 i. 39 How do you think you're going to get her back then?..You treated her like shit, why should she come back? 3. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). to get back at (also now less commonly on): to retort or retaliate upon. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > execute (vengeance) [verb (transitive)] > pay (a person) back to quit or yield (one) his whilec1400 rewardc1400 pay?c1450 requite1534 to pay back1655 to pay off1699 to pay out1849 to get back at (also now less commonly on)1886 1886 J. A. Logan Great Conspiracy 556 Washburne..got back at this part of Mr. Voorhees's speech rather neatly. 1894 Washington Post 2 Mar. 4/6 (heading) Watterson gets back on a critic. 1906 Springfield Weekly Republican 14 June 11 If the President had not been vindictively anxious to ‘get back’ at the packers, he could have accomplished his end effectively. 1907 Daily Chron. 17 Oct. 3/3 You cannot afford to be rude to a journalist. Some day he will get back on you. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves ix. 90 A lesser man might easily have snatched at the chance of getting back at me a bit by loosing Cyril into by bedchamber. 1972 Guardian 11 Feb. 1/6 For most of question time..Mr Thorpe tried to get back at the..Prime Minister. 1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors (1995) viii. 95 Jake laughingly got back on Beth for earlier chiding him for his language. 2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 34 Let nobody try to best the guards or the doctors or teachers. They have their own ways of getting back at you. 4. intransitive. British. to get one's own back: to revenge oneself (on someone); to get even. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > take or execute revenge [verb (intransitive)] > be revenged avengec1375 awreak1377 vengec1380 revenge?a1425 to get one's own back1887 1887 Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 29 Oct. 2/4 Do you see this? That is [the wound caused by] the pewter pot. I have come to get my own back. 1902 J. Milne Epist. Atkins iv. 63 His one thought how to ‘get his own back’. 1914 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion iv Higgins... You have wounded me to the heart. Liza... I'm glad. I've got a little of my own back. 1920 ‘Ixion’ Motor Cycle Reminisc. 124 Whenever he met me I was able to get my own back. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 73/4 The clerks..get their own back by unmasking frauds and..having fun with the low standard of French commercial honesty. 1985 I. Murdoch Good Apprentice iii. 513 He had been..made a fool of by Thomas, Stuart, Edward, chance, fate, Midge herself. He would get his own back on them all. 2003 Radio Times 22 Nov. (Midlands ed.) 59/1 The actor took the opportunity to get his own back on his notoriously pernickety friend by making him repeat the scene many times. 5. intransitive. to get back to. a. Of a statement or information: to come to the notice of (the person it concerns). Usually with it as subject and sometimes also with complementary that-clause. ΚΠ 1932 C. Woolrich Manhattan Love Song v. 164 She's in thick with the big mucka-mucks; it'll get back to them in no time—! 1958 Life 27 Oct. 72/2 I am sorry this was said... It got back to Ike very quickly. 1970 L. Rainwater Behind Ghetto Walls x. 320 I don't know how it got back to Pat cause I didn't tell nobody. 1993 Etc Montréal No. 21. 56/2 I also knew it would get back to him and hurt him. 2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 317 If it ever got back to me that the designers of a camera or the authors of a new piece of software were weeping because of something cruel I had said. b. To contact (a person) with a response after an interval. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [verb (transitive)] andwurdec885 aqueathOE answerOE swarec1175 respoundc1300 replyc1425 replique1477 reanswer1523 replicate1535 undersay1579 rejoin1581 resolve1586 return1597 repone1614 resounda1617 repart1631 remoot1676 reason1841 to get back to1963 1963 G. Lambert Inside Daisy Clover xvi. 237 I asked what he had in mind, and he said he'd get back to me very soon. 1964 Life 20 Nov. 19/2 The producer says, ‘All right, I'll get back to you in a few days.’ 1975 New York Mag. 29 Dec. 64/3 Leave it with me and I'll get back to you at the end of the week. 1988 N. Bissoondath Casual Brutality viii. 174 I've spoken to the travel agent. ‘And?’ ‘And he'll get back to me.’ 2004 A. Hollinghurst Line of Beauty iv. 101 Yeah, got your message... Sorry I didn't get back to you. < as lemmas |
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