| 单词 | to make room |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make room PhrasesΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > a long way off [phrase] > to or at a distance apart on (also by, upon) rooma1325 on side halfc1430 OE Riddle 20 14 Cyning..healdeð mec [i.e. a sword] on heaþore, hwilum læteð eft radwerigne on gerum sceacan, orlegfromne. OE Cynewulf Elene 320 Eodan þa on gerum reonigmode eorlas æcleawe.] a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4021 Gede eft balaam up-on rum. a1325 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Cambr.) ix, in Anglia (1881) 4 183 Fle þou most and flitte on roume, With eie and eke with herte. c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 227 (MED) Holte o roum! a1500 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Cambr.) (1844) 1087 By rome some stode and hur behelde. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. x. l. 14 Eneas..gave comand About the cowrt the pepil on rowm to stand. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2835 When the Grekes se the grete nauy, þai girdon o rowme. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > retire, withdraw, or retreat > out of the way to give rooma1350 to stand backc1390 to make way?a1425 to stand aback?a1439 to make rooma1450 roomc1450 give wayc1515 to give by1633 shunt1869 to move over1914 extend2000 a1350 Life St. Alexius (Laud) l. 481 in F. J. Furnivall Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 69 Ȝiueþ me roum & lat me se þe body þat was boren of me. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 333 As he came inward sho bad gyff hym rowm. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xiv. f. cv Geve this man roume. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. v. 26 A hall, a Hall, giue roome, and foote it gyrles. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. ii. 67 I..wish..I quickly were dissolued from my hiue To giue some Labourers roome . View more context for this quotation 1898 J. W. Howe From Sunset Ridge 126 The high police of fashion urged the vagrants to give room. P3. to make room. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [verb (intransitive)] > make room > for oneself to make rooma1450 a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 13072 (MED) On alle sides she smot aboute & made þeym rounn [read roum] þorow-out þe route. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 876 (MED) Roulande Durnedale oute-drowe And made Romme abowte. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 234 He smertly raiss, And, strikand, rowm about him mais. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 140 The Scottis on fute gret rowme about thaim maide, With ponȝeand speris. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Josh. xvii. C Make thy selfe rowme there in the londe of the Pheresites and Raphaim. 1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 1284, in Wks. (1931) I. 180 That he greit roum maid in the rout. b. To make way, yield place, draw back or retire, so as to allow a person to enter, pass, etc. Frequently with for. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > retire, withdraw, or retreat > out of the way to give rooma1350 to stand backc1390 to make way?a1425 to stand aback?a1439 to make rooma1450 roomc1450 give wayc1515 to give by1633 shunt1869 to move over1914 extend2000 a1450 York Plays (1885) 178 (MED) Make rome be-lyve, and late me gang. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 293 There was made pees and rome, and ryght so they yode with hym. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 628/2 Make romme, maysters, here cometh a player. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 34 Aware, keep bak, make room noow. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 15 Make roome, and let him stand before our face. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 122. ¶6 Notwithstanding all the Justices had taken their Places upon the Bench, they made Room for the old Knight. 1799 J. Austen Let. 9 Jan. (1995) 34 Martha kindly made room for me in her bed, which was the shut-up one in the new Nursery. 1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iv. 251 In churchyard on the Sabbath-day They all make room for her. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 195 I sot down on a bench runnin over with harnsome gals, that squoze close together and squinched themselves up to make room for me. 1935 ‘G. Orwell’ Clergyman's Daughter iii. 187 Shift yourself..and make room for my little sit-me-down. 1992 D. Lessing Afr. Laughter 109 The whites, as they notice him, not at once since they are pretty drunk, make room for him, and one says, ‘Whoa there, Jim, mind my glass.’ c. To provide or obtain space or place for something by the removal of other things. Frequently with for. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [verb (intransitive)] > make room to make placea1387 to make roomth1537 to make room1573 1573 R. Lever Arte of Reason i. xiv. 62 For when a new thing is made, which must fill a place by it self, and no former thing taken awaye to make roome for it. 1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 81 In bodies which have internall principles of Heate and motion, much continually transpiring out to make roome for the supply of new aliment. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 10 Sept. (1972) VII. 283 Clearing our cellars and breaking in pieces all my old Lumber, to make room. 1745 J. Swift Char. P—te M—h in Misc. X. 171 Wit..was extruded from his Head to make room for other Men's Thoughts. 1778 T. Jones Hoyle's Games Improved 27 Throwing out the best Cards in your Hand..in order to make Room for the whole suit. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 142 He explicitly said..that room must be made for them by dismissing more Protestants. 1895 Law Times' Rep. 72 861/2 750 tons of the coal had been sold to make room for cargo at a South American port. 1929 Travel Nov. 8/1 Never will the old, the quaint, the alluring be destroyed to make room for hideous ‘tower buildings’. 1960 ‘J. Bell’ Well-known Face iv. 37 She had moved both cups off the little tray to make room for her breakfast things. 1988 L. Ellmann Sweet Desserts (1989) 113 It was the year they took the statue of Eros out of Piccadilly, to make room for more cars. P4. a. in one's room: in one's place.Also with rooms with a plural antecedent. (a) Indicating substitution of one person for another (in early use with reference to an office or appointment). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [adverb] in his steadc1230 in one's room1489 in the steada1525 by substitute1597 in lieu1599 instead1667 vicariously1868 rather1967 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. viii. sig. Miiij Takynge hys leue he sayth to the captayne that he shall putte another for hym in his rowme. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxix In whose roume afterward succeded George Selde a Ciuilan. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 53 b That he may be put from his office, and some other placed in his roome. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 69 Detaining many of them in prison..that others of his owne followers might bee placed in their roomes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 285 Be thou in Adams room The Head of all mankind. View more context for this quotation 1706 J. Vanbrugh Mistake 11 A proposal..to take you (who then were just Camillo's age) and bring you up in his room. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 137 The names of the Earl of Granard..and Lord Sudley..to be added to the list in their room. 1800 W. Scott Let. 22 Apr. (1932) I. 97 I refer you for particulars to Joseph, in whose room I am now assuming the pen. 1883 Catholic Dict. at Carthusians With grief he [sc. St Bruno] left his beloved companions, the most prudent..of whom, Landwin, he appointed prior in his room. 1906 Times 4 Apr. 9/1 Eight of the lay assistant Commissioners..have been dismissed, and five Nationalists have been appointed in their room. 1959 D. Knowles Relig. Orders in Eng. III. xviii. 220 The confessor-general, Fewterer, left; Copynger was appointed in his room, and showed himself adequately subservient. ΚΠ 1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. 220v To exclude vayne thoughtys and to put the lyfe of our lorde in theyr rowmes. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 285 Warre-thoughts, Haue left their places vacant: in their roomes, Come thronging soft and delicate desires. View more context for this quotation 1657 R. Austen Spirituall Use of Orchard (new ed.) 148 As these are removed the husbandman plants others in their roomes. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 172 If several Elms should die successively in the same Place, you should put Lime-Trees..in their Rooms. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 354 The old long hair falling off, and a shorter coat of hair appearing in its room. 1800 Lady's Monthly Museum Apr. 294 Hairs are plucked out of the forehead by pincers, and the smoothest mouse eye-brows, of all colours, put on by him in their room, with the nicest exactness. b. in the room of: in the place of, in lieu of, instead of, a person or thing. Also in room of. Cf. Phrases 4a. (a) Indicating substitution of one person for another (in early use with reference to an office or appointment). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > in place of [preposition] in (the) lieu ofc1290 in the stead ofa1325 stead of14.. in the way ofa1475 in the room of1526 in (the) place of1533 in the roomth of1565 instead1667 vice1770 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. ii. f. iii He herde that Archelaus did raygne in Iury, in the roume off hys father Herode. 1589 W. Wren in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 146 So we placed other men in the roomes of those that wee lost. 1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie i. xxiiii. 130 When the Question was of suffecting Amadeus, Duke of Sauoy, a married man, in the roome of Eugenius. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 1 Sept. (1974) VIII. 412 The Atturny-general is made Chief Justice in the room of my Lord Bridgeman. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 11. ⁋9 Declared Alderman..in the Room of his Brother,..deceased. 1781 M. J. Armstrong Hist. & Antiq. Norfolk X. 210 Mr. Elisha De Hague was chosen town-clerk, in the room of the late Mr. Francis Wright. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 41 A Spartan named Leon..had taken the command in the room of Pedaritus. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 181 He went in the room of another. 1900 Times 9 Jan. 11/6 The only other business transacted was the admission of Captain Edmund Stanley as City Marshal in the room of Sir Simeon Stuart, resigned. 1945 Times 6 Oct. 6/2 The Princess Royal has appointed Miss Gwynedd Margaret Lloyd to be a Lady in Waiting in the room of the Dowager Lady Lloyd. 1990 A. Burton Cityscapes iv. 45/2 In the room of the sixth poor man and his wife, there shall be one honest poor woman of the said City taken into the Beadhouse. (b) Indicating substitution of one thing for another. Now rare. ΚΠ 1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden x. 32 An eye or bud, taken..from one tree, and placed in the roome of another eye or bud. 1668 M. Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. 4 It is much out of use, and new Expedients substituted in roome thereof. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. v. 82 To substitute Judgment in the Room of Sensation. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. v. iv. 136 You must let me have my old one again, and you may have this in the room on't. View more context for this quotation 1846 R. C. Trench Christ Desire of All Nations i. 19 In the room of shifting cloud-palaces..stands for us a city which hath come down from heaven. 1855 Harper's Mag. July 192/1 Brummell appeared in the Rue St. Jean with a black silk handkerchief in room of his cherished cambric. 1861 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 (1862) 30 148 After so much destructive criticism, to have little of instantly helpful truth to substitute in the room of what has been swept away. 1914 Dial. Notes 4 79 I gin you jell in room o' plums. (c) With a verbal noun as complement. With of. Now regional. ΚΠ 1775 J. Greenman Jrnl. 27 Sept. in Diary of Common Soldier (1978) 14 Had to git out and draw our batto over rips and roks in the room of rowing. 1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit III. 144 In the room of loitering about Paris..I shall have the..pleasure of being..a little useful. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) at Roum Ith roum o comin to me, he went haam. 1861 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 141/2 Missis would still keep going on with her parties and company, o' rum o' minding her farm and dairy. 1932 G. S. Wasson Sailing Days on Penobscot 46 In room of saltin' down a dollar for a rainy day.., I misdoubted if he didn't go astern [= go into debt] the heft o' the time. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (intransitive)] to give (the) law (to)a1225 reignc1325 to rule the roastc1500 to bear (the) rooma1529 to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531 to bear (a or the) sway1549 to bear a (also the) rout1550 (to have) swing and sway1552 to rule the rout1570 master1656 carry1662 to lay down the law1762 to rule the roost1769 to carry (also hold) (big) guns1867 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Cii Beryst thou any rome or cannyst thou do ought. 1530 in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 317 Marchaunte Strayngers beryth the Rowme. 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces ii. sig. N.5 In that yere that I bare roume. 1565 J. Hall Court of Virtue (1961) 266 He that wyth vertue beareth roome, He is a man of great honour. P6. Shipbuilding. a. timber and room: = room and space at Phrases 6b. Now historical. ΚΠ 1649 Shipbuilding Contract (modernized text) in Mariner's Mirror (1955) 41 48 The space of timber and room to be 2 ft 2 in at the most. 1664 E. Bushnell Compl. Ship-wright v. 15 This Arch..and the crooked pricked line within the Keele..are placed at 2 Foot Timber and Roome, as you may see by the Scale. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 70 (table) Space of Timber and Room..1 [foot] 9 [inches]. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. Fv The breadth of two timbers, or the timber and room, which includes the two timbers and the space between them, may be taken without any sensible error, as far as the square body goes. 1987 P. Goodwin Constr. & Fitting Eng. Man of War i. 13/2 The rule of ‘room and space’—or ‘timber and room’ as it was earlier known—had been applied in naval construction well before 1650. b. room and space: the distance from one edge of a framing timber to the equivalent edge of the next, i.e. the width of one timber and the adjacent space. ΚΠ 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 35 To carry up all the Timbers with equal Room and Space, that one Part of the Ship may exactly have as much Timber as the other. 1765 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation (ed. 2) ii. 133 Timber and room, or room and space, is the distance betwixt the moulding edges of two timbers, which must always contain the breadth of two timbers, and sometimes two or three inches between them. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 86 These plates..are all in either three, four, or even six room and space lengths. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 92 Thus the intercostal portions are twice the room and space in length. 1926 C. G. Davis Ship Model Builder's Assistant ii. 21 The spacing of the frames was always a percentage of the length of the ship, .027 in merchant ships; .0172 in a war-ship of about 400 tons; and this was termed the ‘room and space’. 1979 Warship 3 2 ‘Room-and-space’..is a crucial measurement of the lightness or heaviness of construction in any vessel. P7. room and board: accommodation and meals. Cf. bed and board at bed n. 1c. ΚΠ 1795 Times 20 Mar. 1/3 (advt.) Wanted,..apartments, furnished or unfurnished with a room and board.] 1849 Sailor's Mag. Jan. 152/2 I..have taken room and board at two dollars a day. 1895 H. C. Bruce New Man xv. 169 There are private and public boarding houses here, which furnish room and board at from twelve to forty dollars per month. 1978 E. Anderson Place on Corner iii. 86 Some find ‘sissies’ to live with, trading their sexual favors for room and board. 2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons iv. ii. 292 I immediately hired a teacher and a preacher..for a rate of pay that amounted to little above room and board. P8. room and pillar n. Coal Mining attributive designating a method of mining that involves creating rooms (sense A. 7b) separated by pillars, which are removed at a later stage. ΚΠ 1820 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XIV. 374/1 In the mining practice of Great Britain, there are four different systems of working coal mines, viz. 1st, Working with pillars and rooms termed post and stall.] 1848 H. T. De La Beche & L. Playfair Second Rep. Coals Suited to Steam Navy App. 12 All these seams have an inclination of 1 in 12 towards the south-east, and are worked by the room and pillar method. 1902 Jrnl. Geol. 7 626 The rock gypsum is won by underground mining on a room and pillar system. 2002 New Yorker 18 Nov. 59/2 This elementary method of mining, called room-and-pillar mining is an engineering exercise designed to leave enough coal still standing..in order to keep the mine from collapsing. P9. room at the top: opportunity to join an elite, the top ranks of a profession, etc. ΚΠ 1866 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 27 Feb. 3/4 When Daniel Webster was a young man about commencing the study of law, he was advised not to enter the legal profession, for it was already crowded. His reply was,—‘There is room enough at the top’. a1871 A. Cary in Poet. Wks. Alice & Phoebe Cary (1882) 274 Believe me there 's truth in the saying: ‘There always is room at the top’. 1900 W. James Let. 2 Apr. (1920) II. 121 Verily there is room at the top. S—— seems to be the only Britisher worth thinking of. 1914 A. Bennett Price of Love vii. 143 The Imperial had set out to be the most gorgeous cinema in the Five Towns; and it simply was. Its advertisements read: ‘There is always room at the top.’ 1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey iii. 89 You have to be pretty smart with all the competition there is nowadays... There's always room at the top. 1947 ‘G. Orwell’ Eng. People 22 The masses..know it is not true that ‘there's plenty of room at the top’. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top xxviii. 230 You're the sort of young man we want. There's always room at the top. 1980 M. Drabble Middle Ground 140 There's room at the top, maybe, but only for the clever ones. P10. a room of one's own: a room or place to oneself, as a symbol of independence, privacy, autonomy, etc.In the 20th cent. frequently with reference to women, with allusion to A Room of One's Own, an essay by Virginia Woolf (see quot. 1929). ΚΠ 1869 H. Kingsley Stretton ix. 33/2 I should think..that almost the first ambition of every clever woman was to have a room of her own, a place where she was mistress, and could do as she pleased. 1882 M. Grant in Lamp 22 221/2 Even let one be clotheless and foodless, it is yet something to have a room of one's own in which one may starve, if starvation is inevitable, in an independent sort of way. 1929 V. Woolf Room of One's Own i. 6 A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. 1948 E. B. Phelps et al. Public Health Engin. I. ii. 25 Some opportunity for privacy—‘a room of one's own’ or its nearest possible equivalent—is an essential need for emotional health. 1989 J. Perkin Women & Marriage in 19th Cent. Eng. (2002) xii. 257 A room of one's own was hard to find in the gilded cage, even in the happiest of marriages; a life of one's own still harder. 1996 E. L. McDonagh Breaking Abortion Deadlock ix. 181 While the law protects the idea that a ‘man's home is his castle’, women have long sought for merely the right to have a ‘room of one's own’ within it. 2001 tr. A.-W. Scheer Start-ups are Easy 50 A room of one's own. For a newly founded company, its first office is of course one of the most important indicators of independence. P11. colloquial. (up) in Annie's room (behind the clock, wallpaper, etc) and variants: used, chiefly in response to a question, to indicate that the speaker either does not know or does not wish to say where someone or something might be found. Also in many similar phrases with other female forenames, e.g. Nelly, Minnie, Mary, etc. In quot. 1907 apparently denoting a notional place where improbable or impossible things happen. ΚΠ 1907 Murmurmontis (Wesleyan Univ., W. Virginia) 4 188 Graham has his Political Economy up—in Mary's room behind the clock.] 1917 Bathurst (New S. Wales) Times 22 May On my interrupting them by exclaiming, ‘I say, cobbers, where is the —— Battalion?’ they looked wild at me, and I received the reply that the —— Battalion is up in Annie's room, clear out. 1928 B. Hecht & C. MacArthur Front Page i. 27 Diamond Louie: Where's Hildy Johnson? Endicott rudely: Up in Minnie's room. Murphy: Who wants to know? 1981 A. Malcolm Ride out Storm vi. 89 ‘Where is she?’ roared Alex. ‘Up in Annie's room behind the clock!’ spat Mackie sarcastically. 2016 G. Masterton Living Death xxxix. 379 ‘Where the feck are they?’ ‘I don't know, Eoin. Up in Nelly's room behind the wallpaper, I expect.’ P12. elephant in the room: see elephant n. Additions. < as lemmas |
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