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单词 to go out to fight
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to 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.
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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.
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