| 单词 | to measure back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto measure back (also backward) b. transitive. to measure back (also backward): to retrace (one's steps, one's way, etc.). Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > retrace (one's course or steps) retrace1594 untread1594 recompassc1604 retreat1605 to measure back (also backward)a1616 recollect1651 retrace1775 retrack1839 unthread1847 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. v. 3 When English measure backward their owne ground In faint Retire. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 526 The Vessel..measures back with speed her former Way. 1758 T. Smollett Hist. Eng. III. 150 They measured back their ground with some disorder. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1802) 502 With a sort of plodding perseverance, we resolve to measure back again the very same joyless, hopeless,..track. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. ix. 112 Measure back your steps..to Lirias, and stay quietly there. 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xii. 229 Lest my way I must measure backward to Charybdis and her bane. < as lemmas |
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