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单词 to rub along
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to rub along
to rub along
intransitive. figurative. To continue in a certain course, esp. without undue difficulty or restraint; to contrive, make shift, manage, get by. Also: to have a satisfactorily friendly relationship; to get along together, or with another person.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist [verb (intransitive)]
continuec1340
perseverec1380
stick1447
to rub on1469
to stick unto ——1529
persist1531
to make it tougha1549
whilea1617
subsist1632
to rub along1668
let the world rub1677
dog1692
wade1714
to stem one's course1826
to stick in1853
to hang on1860
to worry along1871
to stay the course1885
slug1943
to slug it out1943
to bash on1950
to soldier on1954
to keep on trucking1972
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. i. 43 Going, Depart, recede,..get gone, set forth, rub along.
1689 J. Flavell Englands Duty App. 29 They make an hard shift to rub along under these regrets of Conscience.
1765 J. Parker Let. 22 Mar. in B. Franklin Papers (1968) XII. 88 He may make shift to rub along, but I believe will never do any great Matter.
1818 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) I. 396 I feel confident that I shall be able to rub along with my present means of support.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour (1865) II. 555 It's got very bad now. I used to manage to rub along at first.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xliv. 150 The reason..why the system..rubs along in the several States is, that the executive has little to do.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas viii. 81 The small fry have to rub along with Japanese and Filipinos.
1958 Daily Sketch 2 June 12/4 The firm rubbed along—but it never looked like going places.
1961 A. White Diary 31 Dec. (1993) i. 59 I think we shall rub along well. This is definitely sharing a flat, not ‘having a lodger’ for he is in and about all the time.
2004 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 108/1 At first David and I were terrified that we'd feel trapped and that the contented rubbing along together we'd lived with for so long would somehow change for the worse.
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