| 单词 | to go round |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go round to go round 1. intransitive. a. To be passed from person to person (in early use esp. among a group of people sat at a table); to circulate; to be or become widely current. Cf. to go around 1a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] wharvec888 turnOE runOE to turn aboutOE to turn roundc1450 to go roundc1460 revolute1553 gyre1598 veer1605 to come about1607 circumvolve1626 circumgyre1634 to turn around1642 roll1646 revolve1660 circulate1672 twist1680 circumgyrate1683 rotate1757 gyrate1830 society > leisure > social event > [verb (intransitive)] > participate in social events > circulate at to go roundc1460 circulate1928 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 280 For spycys & eke wyne Went round aboute, þe gascoyn, & eke the ruyne. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 54 Than culit thai ther mouthis with confortable drinkis, And carpit full cummerlik, with cop going round. 1546 S. Gardiner Detection Deuils Sophistrie f. lixv The speche goeth round as though ye wordes imported, that ye sacrament is but a remembraunce of Christe. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iv. 100 A health Gentlemen, Let it goe round . View more context for this quotation 1650 L. Lawrence Epithalamium 6 The bridegroom's health goes round. 1743 Foundling Hosp. for Wit No. 2. 49 Here with his Friends the social Glass went round. 1779 W. Cowper Yearly Distress xii The punch goes round, and they are dull And lumpish still as ever. 1801 L. Aikin Poetry for Children 1 Jokes went round and careless chat. 1877 A. M. Sullivan New Ireland II. viii. 205 Towards the close of December rumours went round that the work of the approaching commission was to be swelled. 1890 Cornhill Mag. July 11 The frequent laugh goes round. 1913 O. Roe & H. Urse By Brown Bog 48 There's a peculiar story going round of an adventure of his with priests and poteen. 1967 Times 25 Jan. 10/5 A long way from the drug pushers and the coffee bars where drugs go round. 2004 H. Walsh Brass ii. 41 If you'd all like to refer to the handouts that are going round. b. Of food, or anything distributed or shared out: to supply each person in a group, or to satisfy demand. Chiefly in the infinitive following an expression of quantity, as enough, much, etc. Cf. to go around 1b at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > be sufficient [verb (intransitive)] > to be distributed to go around1841 to go round1855 1855 P. T. Barnum Life x. 294 When it [sc. a small turkey] was carved, there was not enough of it to ‘go round’. 1891 Sat. Rev. 18 July 84/1 The haunch of venison was in such demand that Jacob Tonson learnt with horror that it would never ‘go round’. 1943 C. McCullers in Harper's Bazaar Aug. 153/2 There had been barely enough hoecakes and white meat to go round. 1991 Face Feb. 90/1 There's only so much money to go round, they say. 2013 R. G. Anderson in E. Reid & D. Visser Private Law & Human Rights 382 Where there are insufficient resources to go round, decisions have to be made about allocation that are bound to be controversial. ΚΠ 1879 ‘Cavendish’ Card Ess. 230 Its policy lies chiefly in the hope that spades may go round three times. 1884 H. G. Playfair Game of Napoleon & How to play It xviii. 55 Should best Trump go round lead Trumps again. 2. intransitive. a. To move in a circular or orbital course; to revolve, rotate. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. to go around 3 at Phrasal verbs 1.See also to go round in circles at circle n. 1c, to make the world go round at world n. Phrases 28, to see (what makes) the wheels go round at wheel n. 14c. ΚΠ ?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding i. iv. sig. B.i You shall not remoue forwarde your right fote from the place where you are. But onely goe rounde with youre lefte foote. 1569 R. Androse in tr. ‘Alessio’ 4th Bk. Secretes iii. 8 Scotomia and Vertigo, are diseases of the head which make all things seeme to go rounde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 232. Does the world go round? 1631 T. Foster Plouto-mastix 14 Charity..must goe round in a continuall circle of Beneficent operation. 1742 R. Long Astron. I. ii. v. 201 To the inhabitant of any planet the sun appears to go round in the heliocentric circle of that planet. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 41 Smack went the whip, round went the wheels. 1833 J. Hall Soldier's Bride 127 Their spirits may still be seen..dancing in circles in yonder whirling place, where the water goes round so rapidly. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 334 Gyromancy was performed by going round continually in a circle. 1931 Boys' Life Jan. 41/3 The stars above him went round and round in a ring. 1959 Punch 20 May 688/3 It is a big stage... In the middle is a revolve that goes round as easily as a bicycle wheel. 2000 B. Segal Whisper Awhile 37 As I drank my warm beer, the scratchy record would go round and round. b. Of the head or brain: to be dizzy or dazed; to spin, swim. ΚΠ 1659 A. Burgess Script. Directory 269 His head goeth round, and he knoweth not where he is. 1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes v. 55 My Head goes round: And now you swim before me. 1742 Scots Mag. Aug. 361/2 Did it not make your brain go round? 1777 tr. G. Bertati Isola di Alcina i. ix. 34 I feel, I know not what—my head goes round—ah me—what a storm! 1803 F. Reynolds Delays & Blunders iii. 44 My head goes round and round—I write this between my fits. 1896 Pearson's Mag. 1 690/2 ‘Hold me!’ she gasped, ‘my head is going round and round’. 1934 F. L. Lucas tr. M. Mauron Mount Peacock v. 64 There are in the magistrate's style too many ‘in consideration whereofs’, ‘eventual collaterals’, ‘prescriptive intervals’, ‘proportions legally reserved’—quite enough to make Bernade's head go round. 1987 S. O'Dell Secret never Sleeps iii. 24 I scarcely heard her question. My head was going round. 2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 27 Apr. 43 Next thing I'm in a hospital bed with my head going round and round. 3. intransitive. Of time or a period of time: to pass, elapse (sometimes with reference to the cyclical nature of time, the seasons, etc.). Now chiefly poetic and literary. ΚΠ 1608 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Characters Two Royall Masques sig. Cv So that, this night, the years gone round, you do again salute this ground. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 156 So long, that ninteene Zodiacks haue gone round . View more context for this quotation 1683 C. Wase tr. Cicero Five Days Deb. Tusculum ii. x. 110 Many Ages Periods have gone round. a1718 T. Parnell Poems Several Occasions (1721) 138 The Months go round. 1794 A. Pringle Gen. View Agric. Westmoreland 20 The crop is reaped before a year goes round. 1842 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Neighbours II. xii. 82 Days—months—years went round. 1862 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 30 Jan. 541 Some four weeks went round, during which my patient was limping about the camp. 1980 J. Wain Poems 1949–79 55 In every year that has gone round Since the first man walked on the ground Things were that should never have been. 1990 D. Davie Coll. Poems (new ed.) 387 The year goes round. 4. intransitive. To encircle, enclose, or surround something (frequently with the implication of being sufficient). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] befong971 beclipc1000 begoc1000 belieOE bestandc1000 to go about ——OE umbegangc1200 behema1250 befallc1275 berunc1275 girdc1290 bihalvena1300 umlapa1300 umlaya1300 umlouka1300 umbegoc1300 belayc1320 halsea1340 enclose1340 umbelapa1350 embracec1360 betrendc1374 circlec1374 umbecasta1375 to give about1382 environa1393 umbeclipa1395 compassa1400 encircle?a1400 enourle?a1400 umbegivea1400 umbeseta1400 umbeliec1400 umbetighc1400 enroundc1420 measurec1425 umbsteadc1450 adviron?1473 purprise1481 umbeviron1489 belta1500 girtha1500 overgirda1500 engirt15.. envirea1513 round?a1513 brace1513 umbereach1513 becompass1520 circuea1533 girtc1540 umbsetc1540 circule1553 encompass1555 circulate?a1560 ingyre1568 to do about1571 engird1573 circumdate1578 succinge1578 employ1579 circuate1581 girdle1582 wheel1582 circumgyre1583 enring1589 ringa1592 embail1593 enfold1596 invier1596 stem1596 circumcingle1599 ingert1599 engirdle1602 circulize1603 circumscribe1605 begirt1608 to go round1610 enwheela1616 surround1616 shingle1621 encirculize1624 circumviron1632 beround1643 orba1644 circumference1646 becircle1648 incircuitc1650 circumcinge1657 circumtend1684 besiege1686 cincture1789 zone1795 cravat1814 encincture1820 circumvent1824 begirdle1837 perambulate1863 cordon1891 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xcvi. 385 Make a plaister thereof two fingers broad, and as long as will goe round on the toppe of the horses hoofe. 1671 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Picture (ed. 2) ii. 427 The Wall did not only look sparkling, but like a flaming Hoop, or Ring of Fire, by reason the Wall went round. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd II. vi. 122 The Number of Inches that will go round at the usual Place where we fix the Girth. 1766 R. Jones Artific. Fire-works (ed. 2) vi. 254 Tie round the mouth of each a piece of thin paper, large enough to go twice round. 1845 J. Smith Syst. to organize & establish Mil. Discipline 172 There should be eight posts well secured, and a strong rope, of sufficient length to go round. 1864 Ladies' Compan. 26 107/2 Cover this diamond with five or six stitches which go round twice. 1904 Pacific Unitarian Jan. 89/1 He..was awful fat where his belt went round. 1912 Amer. Primary Teacher Jan. 184/1 The pieces of raphia cut the right length to go round once. 2008 tr. M. Dahlén Creativity Unlimited xiii. 167 The rope is just long enough to go round if it runs along the ground. 5. intransitive. a. To go from one place to another, esp. in an indirect, circuitous, or roundabout way. In later use also: to pay a visit in an informal or incidental way. Cf. to go around 2a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] scritheOE walka1200 fizgig1594 itinerate1600 to go round1636 to travel it1687 to go around1742 flitch1787 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit informally to call in1573 to drop in1609 to look ina1616 to come round1620 to go round1636 to put in1668 to go around1742 to happen in1749 to run in and out1779 to come around1822 to pop in and out1846 to happen in with1883 to stop in1904 stop1905 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off > diverge from direct course > make a detour > go or come by circuitous route to come round1620 to go round1636 to go around1742 1636 R. Chamberlain Last Two Cent. Bulls, Jests & Lies 50 in Bk. of Bulls The Pox..had an ambition to take the circumference of his face, and beginning at one eare, went round by his chin till it reached the other. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 5 Nov. (1971) V. 314 The coach being forced to go round by London-wall home because of the Bonefires. 1769 T. Gray Diary 13 Oct. in Poems (1775) II. 131 Gordale-scar..lay six miles from Settle; but that was directly over a fell, and as the weather was not to be depended on, I went round in a chaise. 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. v. iii. 38 She..went round by a back way to the apartment of Eugenia. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xvi. 264 Her husband was going round for an hour to a ball that Mrs. Kavanagh was giving. 1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children I. ix. 92 She would find him pausing at a fence. Then she would hop over herself and he would go round. 1885 G. Allen Babylon I. viii. 169 He went round to see Cicolari. 1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 15/7 A dog goes round to the far side of a mob of sheep and stops them. 1971 ‘G. Charles’ Destiny Waltz iv. 131 I just went round there because I liked going round to other people's homes. 2002 R. Hill Death's Jest-bk. 657 He wanted to go round and see Frobisher and apologize. b. To visit (in succession) a number of places or people; to go from place to place. Cf. to go around 2b at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel about or visit many places > tour to go round1670 tour1789 tourify1820 tourize1837 1670 N. Ranew Solitude improved by Divine Medit. i. xi. 44 Meditation in Spiritual things, should be like Nehemiah when he came to Jerusalem, and would go view it; He went and viewed first one part, and then another, till he had gone round. 1675 A. Roberts tr. D. Vairasse d'Allais Hist. Sevarites I. ii. 8 Sermodas led me and Maurice by the hand to take a full view of this stately Palace. When we had gone round, and seen the glory of it,..we returned to our company. 1723 J. Anderson Constit. Free-masons 65 The Grand-Master..shall (at least once) go round and visit all the Lodges about Town. 1771 A. Bailey Mem. 14 Mr. Steward went round to all the tradesmen whom he had dealt with, to forbid them to trust me. 1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 80/2 They went round into the markets, and bought up all the corn. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 16 I spent a day or two in..going round and seeing the other colleges. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vi. 157 They went round for eggs, scrambling into all sorts of places. 1990 A. Sweeting Educ. in Hong Kong Pre-1841–1941 v. 466 They went round from door to door. 2001 P. Gregory Other Boleyn Girl (2003) 158 ‘What else is there to do in the country?’ ‘I go round and see the farms,’ I remarked. c. Theatre. Of a member of an audience: to go backstage or behind the scenes at a theatre, esp. so as to visit an actor after a performance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > go to theatre [verb (intransitive)] > visit backstage to go round1882 1882 Harper's Mag. Feb. 388/2 I have sometimes gone round to speak to an actor. 1900 T. E. Pemberton Kendals xi. 326 After the piece was over, I went ‘round’ to offer her my congratulations. 1952 A. Christie Mrs. McGinty's Dead xvii. 128 The play itself she had enjoyed, but the ordeal of ‘going round afterwards’ was fraught with..terrors. 1987 R. Briers Coward & Company 24 Hannen Swaffer..went round after the show to tell him, ‘Noley, I've always said you could act better than you write’. 6. intransitive. Golf. Chiefly with in. To complete a game of golf in a specified way or with a specified score. ΚΠ 1863 Dundee Courier & Argus 5 May The next highest was Mr Richardson, Edinburgh, who went round in 90 strokes. 1890 H. S. C. Everard in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 353 He had until that day never succeeded in going round without a six somewhere in his score. 1909 Amer. Golfer July 110/2 Gilbert did not allow anything to interfere with his grand game and he went round in 76 and was 6 up in the morning. 2012 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 19 Mar. Pádraig Harrington went round in par yesterday. 7. intransitive. colloquial. To be regularly in company (with a person, esp. a lover); (also) to have regular social interaction with a group of people. Also (of two or more people) with together. Cf. to go around 2c at Phrasal verbs 1.rare in U.S. use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE drawc1275 mella1300 meeta1325 fellow1340 usec1384 conjoinc1386 joinc1390 knitc1400 accompany1461 enfellowship1470 frequent1477 haunt1477 mixa1513 encompanya1533 combinea1535 contract1548 to take with ——1562 associate1581 to have a saying toa1593 cope1594 sort1594 to take in1597 consort1600 herd1606 factionate1611 to keep company (with)a1616 accost1633 solder1641 converse1649 walk1650 consociate1653 coalite1734 to get with ——a1772 forgather1786 unionize1810 to go rounda1867 to mix in1870 cop1940 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] > keep company with as a lover to go with ——c1330 to go rounda1867 trot1888 to go around1904 track1916 a1867 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward in London (1870) i. v. 53 You're the serpent I..went round with, and was cheerful with, are you? 1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers iv. 244 I guess you didn't go round with the intellectual set. 1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite iv. 246 You might have been a keelie labourer—Christ, living in some awful room in Paldy,..going round with some quean not genteel like yours but speaking just awful. 1977 W. Ihimaera in L. Wevers N.Z. Short Stories (1984) 4th Ser. 149 Roha and Hone, they went round together. 1986 R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk iv. 143 Because I went round with black kids I was different. 2002 E. Wooff Mud Puppy xv. 145 There I was thinking of ways to make it up to her. And all the time, she's going round with poxy Gareth Matthews. < as lemmas |
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