| 单词 | to have a long way to go |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a long way to go (a) to have a long way to go and variants: to need to make much more progress before some goal or outcome can achieved. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make only slight progress > be far short of accomplishment to have a long way to go1907 1907 Q. Bull. Meadville Theol. School Apr. 14 Chicago is learning the lesson and although it still has a long way to go, so far as its legislative chambers are concerned, it has measurably succeeded. 1917 H. J. Laski in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 121 Your bretheren [sic]..have still a long way to go before they understand the meaning of a certain dissent in Adair v. U.S. 1933 F. Baldwin Innocent Bystander viii. 150 Sherry had a long way to travel before she would be a Fontanne or a Cornell. 1935 H. L. Mencken Let. 4 Jan. (1961) 386 You must yet go a long way, of course, before you are eligible to it. 1977 P. Baelz Ethics & Belief vii. 79 Man has still a long way to go before he exercises his freedom responsibly and responsively. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 17/2 Her crabbed and shaky handwriting suggests that she still had a long way to go towards recovery. < as lemmas |
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