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单词 to let drive
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to let drive
P1. intransitive. to let drive. Chiefly with at (formerly also †upon): to attack or set upon a person with blows, a weapon, etc.; to launch an attack. Also transitive: to aim (a missile, blow, etc.) at someone.In quot. 1545 apparently treated as a compound, with the second element inflected.In quot. 1989 with punning allusion to the luxury car market.
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1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 41v Drawyng and withdrawing his shafte when he list, markynge at one man, yet let driuyng at an other man.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. i. f. 3 Vpon whom he let driue with greate violence.
1583 R. P. tr. P. de la Sierra Second Pt. Myrror of Knighthood i. i. f. 1 The exceeding fiercenesse with which they let driue their blowes.
1778 Cervantes' Life & Exploits Don Quixote Abridged v. 32 They unbuckled their slings, and began to let drive about his ears with stones as big as one's fist.
1893 ‘R. H. Jayne’ Through Apache Land xx. 173 He let drive a sledgehammer-like blow straight from the shoulder.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 212 As they advanced, the Ruskies let drive with their big guns.
1926 Travel Nov. 58/2 I let drive for the point of his chin, and he went down and out for a full count.
1989 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 17 May (Late ed.) 13 (headline) Japan lets drive at elitism.
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21. to let drive (see drive v. 12).
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