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单词 to move on
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to move on
to move on
1. intransitive. To continue to move; to restart one's journey, advance to another place; (figurative) to develop, to progress from one stage, subject, etc., to another. Frequently with to.
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1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiii. 80 Where nothing hinders, (as beyond the utmost bounds of all Bodies,) a Body put into motion may move on.
1746 B. Franklin Let. 16 Oct. in Papers (1961) III. 88 Tis allowed [by all] that a Body IA, moving with a Velocity IC, and [a Force I]F, striking another Body IA at Rest, they [will after]wards move on together.
1816 J. Austen Emma II. v. 78 Emma could imagine she saw a touch of the arm at this speech, from his wife. ‘We had better move on, Mr Weston,’ said she, ‘we are detaining the girls.’
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 59 Then the tale Shall move on soberly.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xxxv Gabriel and Coggan began to move on.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. ii. 23 After they had shaken hands across the hedge that came almost to their shoulders, Susan began to move on.
1966 P. Willmott Adolescent Boys E. London iii. 49 They would often try to move on from kissing to sexual play.
1989 T. Parks Family Planning 67 As if times hadn't moved on while she's been away.
1995 Artists & Illustrators Apr. 29 For the final stage I move on to smaller brushes, using a no 5 filbert to work in the finer details of the blossom.
2. intransitive. = to move in at Phrasal verbs. Obsolete. rare.
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1792 G. G. Beekman Let. 2 Oct. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1258 Your Father..has signed Articles of Agreement to take a Farm..and to allow lawful Interest from 1st May 92 when he took the Farm and moved on shortly after.
3. intransitive. To proceed away from a place where one is considered, esp. by a police officer, to have stood too long and to be causing an obstruction. Frequently in imperative.
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1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 83/2 He [sc. a police officer] possesses the power..of ordering them to ‘move on’.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xx. 196 In vain policemen told them to move on; fresh groups gathered after the seceders.
1871 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind iv. 45Move on,’ said the voice of a policeman behind them.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage c. 526 He awoke with a start, dreaming that he was being shaken by a policeman and told to move on.
1999 I. Rankin Dead Souls xvii. 128 He managed an hour's kip on a bench, until a policeman told him to move on.
4. transitive. Of a police officer, etc.: to cause or order (a person) to continue on his or her way.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [verb (transitive)] > specific activities of policeman
to move on1894
bust1964
baton charge1976
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > under orders from policeman
to move on1915
1894 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Jan. 56/2 The proceedings were..abruptly closed by the intervention of the police, who ‘moved on’ the preacher.
1915 F. Hodgson Burnett Lost Prince x. 101 Policemen had moved him on whenever they set eyes on him.
1989 Q Mar. 10/1 The editor of Manchester United's Red News, is always ‘moved on’ when selling his title outside Old Trafford.
5. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. to move on up: to increase one's status, social standing, prestige, etc.; to improve one's quality of life.
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1946 W. H. Brewster Move on up Little Higher (song) 2 One of these evenings..I'm going home to live on high... I'm going to move on up a little higher..meet Abraham and Isaac.]
1970 C. Mayfield Move on Up (song) 1 Just move on up Towards your destination Though you may find from time to time Complications.
1973 Black Panther 22 Sept. 17/1 Such groups..sing of lost hope, lost love, of movin' on up, of things getting better.
1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 May 28/1 A young Irish American..who pursues his dream of moving on up in ivied eastern schools and colleges.
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