单词 | to go between |
释义 | > as lemmasto go between ΘΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > find means to do something [verb (intransitive)] > act as intermediate means to go betweenc1320 to come between ——?1492 intercede1578 factor1621 intermediate1624 trample1624 mediate1630 intervene1646 to come in between ——1676 c1320 Sir Trist. ii. 101 A bischop yede bitvene. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclviii. 580/1 Certayne good people of Gaunte..went so bytwene in this mater. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. i. 72 I haue..gon betweene and betweene, but small thanks for my labour. View more context for this quotation to go between —— to go between —— intransitive. To act as a mediator between; to reconcile. Cf. go-between n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > mediate between to go between ——lOE mean1440 mediate1538 to build bridges1886 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1066 Þa eodon gode men heom betwenen & sahtloden heom. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 332 Menyn, or goon be-twene ij partyes for a-corde, medio. 1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) xxiii. sig. b4 Hir moder..went bitwene hir sones and hem made accorded with moche peyne. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Ciiijv The regente of France was faine to be sent for from beyond the Seas to set theim at one, and to go between them. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 261 I did goe betweene them as I said, but more then that he loued her. View more context for this quotation 1765 G. Colman in tr. Terence Comedies Andrian 19/2 He goes between the father and the son, and in some measure betrays both. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Black-foot A sort of match-maker; one who goes between a lover and his mistress, endeavouring to bring the fair one to compliance. 1871 W. Elwin in A. Pope Wks. (new ed.) VII. 8 In the altercations of Lord Oxford and Bolingbroke, the dean was the common friend who went between them. 1990 D. E. O'Brien Today's Handbk. Solving Bible Diffic. x. 391 The emphasis in this verse is on Christ as the one who mediates or goes between God and man. 2002 B. James Middleman vi. 108 Boris..was only a go-between but I'm due to become one of the kind of mainsters he went between. < as lemmas |
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