| 单词 | to go one's gait |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go one's (own) gait a. Manner of walking or stepping, bearing or carriage while moving, walk, step. Also figurative, esp in to go one's (own) gait, to go one's own way; to pursue one's own course. (For literal senses of this phrase see to gang one's gait (also way) at gang v.1 2, gate n.2) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking stepOE gangOE pacec1300 goinga1382 gait1509 motion1531 gature?1548 walk1567 gait-trip1582 tread1609 go1635 démarche1658 the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun] wayeOE costOE wise971 gatec1175 custc1275 form1297 guise13.. mannerc1300 kindc1330 assizea1375 plighta1393 makea1400 fashionc1400 reason?c1400 method1526 voye1541 how1551 way1563 garb1600 quality1600 mould1603 quomodo1623 modus1648 mode1649 turn1825 road1855 gait1866 methodology1932 stylee1982 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > be independent [verb (intransitive)] to have one's own rulea1393 to be one's own man (also woman, person)a1425 to be one's own master?1510 to stand on one's own bottom1564 to sit loose1591 independa1657 to paddle one's own canoe1828 to go it alone1842 to run one's own show1892 to go one's (own) gait1922 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xxxv Theyr gate and loke proude and abhomynable. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 600 Scarse thy legs uphold thy feeble gate. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 43 He considered their presence and their gate, and the whole motion of their body. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 33 He was well stay'd, and in his Gate Preserv'd a grave, majestick state. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. iv. 72 We can plainly discover one of his Heels higher than the other, which gives him a Hobble in his Gait. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. iii. xi. 265 With this Face, and in the most solemn Gait, she approached Amelia. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 192 Its restless gait and odd chuckling sound distinguish it sufficiently from all other birds. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 46 My limping gait. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 338 Their gait in general is very slow. 1865 ‘M. Twain’ Celebrated Jumping Frog (1867) 37 Preachin' was his nateral gait. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 53 He was more fit from his..gait, to be a knight than a monk. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 356 Our great writers generally settle down to a stately but monotonous gait, after the fashion of Johnson. 1922 J. B. Priestley Papers from Lilliput 31 Caring little whether he is still a shepherd or metamorphosed into a fisherman or cobbler, so long as he is still with us, going his own fantastic gait. 1940 H. Read Annals of Innocence ii. ii. 82 These are qualities to be enjoyed by non-poetic people: the poet must go his own gait. 1958 Times 4 Oct. 9/5 Miss Watts, whose voice is of the right weight and gait for Bach. < as lemmas |
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