单词 | to pace up and down |
释义 | > as lemmasto pace up and down a. intransitive. To move with a measured or regular step; to walk or stride along steadily. Also: to move in this way as an expression of anxiety, frustration, etc. (usually with adverbial phrase, as to pace up and down, etc.).Formerly also †transitive with it (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > with firm or measured step pacea1522 a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 161 The payntit povne, pasand with plomys gym, Kest vp his taill. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxiii. sig. Lvv The thirde motion, called singles, is of two vnities seperate in pasinge forwarde. 1587 R. Greene Euphues sig. B4 Hector pazing hand in hand with Achilles, Troilus with Vlisses. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 111 I will euen take my leaue of you, & pace softly towards my Kinsmans. View more context for this quotation 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiv. 397 Having paced it gravely about the streets till 2 or 3 a clock in the morning, their Idols were carry'd with much Ceremony into the Temple. 1729 T. Cooke Tales 136 The Critic took his Way, Slow pacing, home~ward. 1789 E. Hands Death of Amnon iv. 38 With quick step He paces to and fro. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vi. 50 For many hours in every day the sisters paced slowly up and down the nave. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Cup ii. ii. 107 Lay down the Lydian carpets for the king. The king should pace on purple to his bride. 1902 H. James Wings of Dove I. v. xiii. 280 In the great garnished void of their sitting-room, where, a little, really, like a caged Byzantine, she had been pacing. 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond x. 100 The camel paced briskly after the jeep, with aunt Dot sitting astride. 1998 N. Earls Bachelor Kisses (1999) xx. 187 He moans through his gnashed teeth and paces up and down the corridor. < as lemmas |
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