| 单词 | to make up as one goes along |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (something) up as one goes along c. To concoct, invent, fabricate (a story, lie, fictional scene or character, etc.); to compose (verses, etc.) impromptu; to improvise. Also to make (something) up as one goes along: to extemporize, improvise (something), frequently with little or no prior knowledge of the subject in question. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] findeOE conceive1340 seek1340 brewc1386 divine1393 to find outc1405 to search outc1425 to find up?c1430 forgec1430 upfindc1440 commentc1450 to dream out1533 inventa1538 father1548 spina1575 coin1580 conceit1591 mint1593 spawn1594 cook1599 infantize1619 fabulize1633 notionate1645 to make upc1650 to spin outa1651 to cook up1655 to strike out1735 mother1788 to think up1855 to noodle out1950 gin1980 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (transitive)] forgec1386 contrivec1400 commentc1450 dissimule1483 devisea1535 invent1535 fable1553 coin1561 to make upc1650 manufacture1700 to tell the tale1717 fabricate1779 concoct1792 fob1805 mythologize1851 fabulate1856 phoney1940 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (transitive)] > turn into fiction to make upc1650 fictionize1831 fictionalize1925 fiction1961 c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 202 Declairing [that] these wemen..war persuadit and intysit to mak wp this sclander. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. xi. 153 The Seamen..were curious to enquire into my Voyages and Course of Life. I made up a Story as short and probable as I could, but concealed the greatest part. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. xiv. 275 Well, the story was not badly made up. 1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray I. iv. 77 ‘You will believe me?’ said Rachel. ‘You will not think that I am making up stories to deceive you?’ 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. iv. 54 The parts that were taken straight out of real life, are denounced as impossible and absurd, and the scenes that I made up out of my own silly head, are pronounced..‘true’. 1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. iv. 28 People began to make up a history of the Britons. 1891 Mrs. S. Edwards Secret of Princess II. i. 2 He sang his verses as he made them up. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 98 I made up a whole lot of new things to go into the story. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) i. 27 ‘He had delirium tremens once behind the scenes in Philadelphia, and stabbed a scene shifter with his stage dagger...’ ‘Now, Landry,’ protested Mrs. Cressler, ‘you're making it up as you go along.’ 1924 M. Baring C xiv. 167 People had made up the story and believed it because they wanted to. 1940 A. Tate Ess. Four Decades (1970) 141 I began to wonder if Mr. Ransom had made it up; then I began to hope that he had, so that the witnessed fact should stand as proof of an insight. 1968 Guardian 22 Sept. 8/4 The film was, we are told, scriptless; the actors made up the dialogue as they went along. 1977 L. Lowry Summer to Die x. 139 We sang ‘Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore,’ mostly off-key, and we made up verses for everybody. 1988 J. Allen Awaiting Developments (1989) xii. 137 Dad and Kathleen were talking about the Council, and Planning Permission, and various Laws of the Land which I think they were making up as they went along. 1991 New Scientist 27 Apr. 51/2 When children make up novel words it is called lexical innovation. < as lemmas |
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