| 单词 | to hold one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hold one's way (b) to hold one's way: to carry on one's journey without stopping or deviating; (figurative) to continue one's course of action; to persevere. Now rare.In cases with the weaker sense of simply maintaining one's course (e.g. quot. 1880), converging with Phrases 1c(a). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] to hold a wayOE to hold forthc1200 to hold ona1225 reignc1300 lasta1325 continuea1340 to continue doing or to doc1384 pursuea1425 perseverec1425 to hold one's wayc1480 prosecute1528 to go on1533 to run on1533 keep1548 to follow on1560 insist1586 to keep on1589 to carry on1832 to carry on1857 string1869 c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 326 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 217 Syne to þe eddris can þai sa: ‘ve commawnd ȝow to hald ȝour va’. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 220 The first doth hold her way, From Douer, to the farth'st of fruitfull Anglesey. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 1 All night the dreadless Angel unpursu'd Through Heav'ns wide Champain held his way . View more context for this quotation 1727 Broome Jason & Medea in Poems 242 Along the Wheel worn Road they hold their way. 1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. xiv. 328 The..reeds of the jungle were moving like the ripple of the ocean, when distorted by the course of a shark holding its way near the surface. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) x. 94 People who have enough to do to hold their own way..had better be content with their own obligations and difficulties. 1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 94 So forward piloted.., she held her way Unveering. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song 68 It was through that wood at nine o'clock that Maggie Jean Gordon would hold her way to the station. < as lemmas |
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