单词 | to go out to fight |
释义 | > as lemmasto go out to fight a. To march as a soldier; to leave one's home or country for a war or battlefield; (later spec.) to join either of the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745 (historical), or to go to the battlefields of France and Belgium in the First World War (1914–18). Also: †to take part in a duel (obsolete). Frequently in to go out to fight. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war to take the plainc1380 to go to war or warsc1450 to take the field1482 to go (etc.) on warfare1483 to pass (forth) in warfare1483 field1535 to go out1548 to go to the war(s)1600 to be (also go) on the warpath1841 to wash one's spears1892 society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war > in a foreign country to go out1917 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. c.viiiv Men goyng out, neuer better at any tyme in all poyntes appoynted, neuer better besene, wyth more courage and gladder wyll. 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 891 There are manie moe things appointed to the Prince, than to go out before the people to warre. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 114 There are other men fitter to go out then I. View more context for this quotation 1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru (new ed.) vi. xx. 889 Both Principals and Seconds went out to fight in a Field at a good distance from Potocsi. 1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life III. lxiv. 84 Impelled by his natural bravery..he went out as a volunteer to the army in Germany. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) He went out with a brother officer, and was slightly wounded. 1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) vi. 228 One of the lairds..proposed to go out, on the occasion of one of the risings for the Stuarts. 1890 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 626 He must go out or be under a social ban. Out they go accordingly, and the trained pistol-shot kills his civilian opponent. 1917 S. McKenna Sonia viii. 394 ‘Is David going out?.. What's he in?’ ‘The Midland Fusiliers.’ 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War i. 1 I read the notice that I was under orders for France... Berry, a subaltern of my set,..might pipe to me, ‘Hi, Blunden, we're going out: have a drink;’ I could not dance. 1936 S. Sassoon Sherston's Progress ii. i. 98 She had hoped and prayed that I might get a home-service job; but now she just accepted the fact that I'd got to go out again. 2006 D. Winner Those Feet 263 His face is..full of pluck and hope—the sort of look I hope to see in my general when I go out to fight. < as lemmas |
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