| 单词 | to run away with |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run away with 3. intransitive. to run away with. extracted from runv. a. (a) Of a horse, etc.: to carry off ungovernably, bolt with (a person). See also sense 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [verb (intransitive)] > carry rider > bolt (with rider) to run away withc1330 bolt1820 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 2021 (MED) Þe hors..arnede awai wiþ þe king. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) vi. vi. sig. k.vijv Therwith his hors ranne awey with hym, and he felle doune to the erthe. 1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) iii. xiii. f. 65v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe He beinge to stubborne doeth ouermuche force you, and wyll nedes run awaye with you whether you will or not. a1652 A. Wilson in F. Peck Desiderata Curiosa (1735) II. xii. 25 My spotted Nag..being younge & not well waigh'd, run away with mee. 1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 8 A fiery Horse, that ran away with him..as he wheel'd about under a Walk of Orange Trees. 1704 Lives, Eng. & Forein I. 317 The Marquiss De Villequier's Horse ran away with him at the Tilt by an Accident. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 28 It is far from improbable, that he may run away with you. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 15 451/1 The horse ran away with him. a1867 C. J. Andersson Notes Trav. S. Afr. (1875) 321 Axel's ox ran away with and threw him, breaking girths, nose-rein, &c. 1915 G. B. Grinnell Fighting Cheyennes xvii. 214 His horse ran away with him, and he could not control it. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Dec. 44/2 On parade his untrained horse regularly ran away with him, and three times in a week he was thrown. (b) figurative. Esp. of an idea, emotion, etc.: to be of such force or strength as to be beyond the ability of (a person, one's reason, etc.) to control it; to sway or persuade beyond what is justified. ΚΠ 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 1 I thought to come and holde you.., lest your boke shoulde runne awaye with you. 1605 N. Breton Poste with Packet: 2nd Pt. sig. Cv Take heede of Poetry, least it runne away wth thy wit. 1694 T. Southerne Fatal Marriage sig. A2 My Poetry will never run away with me; but the good fortune of finding so many Honourable Patrons..has transported me. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 27. ⁋2 His desires run away with him. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. x. 12 Don't let your Passion run away with your Senses. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vii. 152 Our anger runs away with our reason. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 812 The accelerating nerves often..run away with the heart. 1964 W. R. Brain Doctors Past & Present 120 He was an imaginative man, and sometimes his imaginative hypotheses ran away with him. 1993 T. Parker May Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast (1994) ix. 131 I'm sorry, I'm afraid I've let my feelings run away with me. b. (a) To depart, in haste or surreptitiously, having taken possession of (esp. something to which one is not entitled); to make off with. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > take surreptitiously [verb (transitive)] forsteala940 stealc950 undernimc1175 to run away with?c1430 embezzle1469 steal?1473 surrept1548 cloyne1549 abstract1555 secrete1749 smuggle1768 to run off1821 snakea1861 sneak1883 snitch1904 palm1941 ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 214 (MED) Ellis oþere broþelis wolden renne awey wiþ riche mennus good. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xlix. sig. e ij v/2 They can or may begyle ony man of his good as they done full ofte and renne awaye with other mennes goodes. c1565 W. Turner Hunting of Fox & Wolfe (new ed.) sig. C.j Either he runneth away with the mony, or he tarieth still among his neighbours. 1600–1 State Papers Edinb. Reg. House No. 108/10 He..ran away with the keyis. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 12 The rest of the Jewes gave their seeming assistance..whilst he run away with coat and doublet. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 245 That they would..set sail, and run away with the Ship. 1781 H. L. Thrale Diary 1 Feb. in Thraliana (1942) I. 483 I was saluted with..an Account of Lancaster our favourite Abroad-Clerk running away with Two Thousand Pounds. 1807 Salmagundi 19 Sept. 299 At that time, ladies were not quite so easily run away with as Columbine. 1867 J. R. Houlding Austral. Capers 294 On his return to the coach he found that Bingi had run away with the gun. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 49 Perhaps they had stolen a monstrance to run away with it and sell it somewhere. 1990 R. Rosenbaum Gen. & Blond Ghost in Trav. with Dr. Death (1991) 106 Whenever some international house-of-cards deal collapsed, he'd always be the one to say it was ‘the other guy’ who ran away with the Swiss-account numbers. 2008 G. Packer Betrayed 99 The traffickers ran away with the documents and the money of the rest of the group. (b) figurative. Esp. with reference to the obtaining of undeserved praise, credit, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > gain or win (a success, etc.) to run away with1698 score1883 the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by effort or competition winc1330 gain1548 to carry away1565 to run away with1822 1589 E. Bunny Briefe Answer Quarrels R. P. 74 I will not suffer you quietly to runne away with that gainefull point of your doctrine. 1616 T. Gainsford Secretaries Studie 103 Howeuer men may runne away with the titles of honour and greatnesse; yet..in the professing of friendship, there is a manifest dutie to bee obserued toward the meanest. 1698 in Harleian Misc. (1809) III. 343 The marshals du camp ran away with it clearly to raise the siege. 1722 J. Blair Our Saviour's Divine Serm. on Mount I. xxii. 129 Other People may run away with the Praise and Reward of the Good Action. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. viii. 245 What! are they to run away with all the reputation, and we to undergo all the trouble? 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 380 Any prescribed medicine..will seem to have effected the cure, and will run away with the credit of having done so. 1897 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 304 I really could not allow Maynooth to run away with the credit or reproach of this performance. 1911 Wilson's Photogr. Mag. May 231/1 The personal aggrandizement of a few men who run away with the honors and glory. 1989 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. 4 Heckathorne isn't one to run away with all the kudos. ‘I have to give the offensive line a lot of the credit.’ 2000 N. Kizenko Prodigal Saint v. 193 While many admired him, others were aggrieved that he was running away with all the glory. c. To accept, believe, or take up with (an idea, etc.), hurriedly or without due consideration; to give undue credence to. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > believe too readily [verb (intransitive)] overtrust?c1225 overtrowa1393 to run away with1574 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 169 If you can haue but one writer new or olde, of your side,..you runne away with the matter, as though you had scripture, reason, Doctors, and all. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 186 It is great wonder that Iosephus, and Philo,..runne away with the common acceptation. 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. i. 60 A great Anatomist, whom I find running away with an errour instead of a conceited verity. 1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) (at cited word) To run away with (to fancy, or imagine) a thing. 1789 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXVI. 218 The Public might not run away with the belief that the Senate of England decided any great question as a Senate, when so few Members were present. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) x. 127 Don't run away with that opinion, sir! 1890 Sat. Rev. 29 Nov. 610/1 To let Dr. Barnardo run away with the notion that [etc.]. 1918 F. Palmer Amer. in France xv. 188 The wise men did not want any division to run away with the notion that it did not have a lot to learn yet. 1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy xix. 182 Don't run away with the idea that the Swiss do nothing but yodel and make condensed milk. 2008 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 15 May 88 The last thing we want to do..is to allow excellent students to run away with the impression that they are being singled out for praise. d. To consume, use up, exhaust (a resource, esp. money), esp. at an unexpectedly rapid rate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > use up completely or exhaust stanch1338 exhaust1541 soak1577 tire1589 to suck dry1592 to run away with1622 exantlate1660 to spin out1718 rack1778 overteem1818 deplete1850 to stream out1894 1622 N. Breton Strange Newes sig. B3 v No man must put his land into mony, lest the Bankerout runne away with his inheritance. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying i. §3. 26 We make our lives short, and lust runs away with all the vigorous and healthful part of it. 1746 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 413 [This] with Bushe's chattering and showing me her drawings, has run away with my morning. 1795 Rep. Comm. Waste Lands & Common Fields (Board of Agric.) 9 The difference of the price runs away with all the profit that could be got from the milk. 1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 221 The cost of gathering runs away with much of the saving effected in cutting. 1890 Mrs. H. Wood House of Halliwell II. vii. 175 Caroline's illness..had run away with all the ready money. 1921 S. A. Donham Spending Family Income xii. 118 Operating charges..need constant attention or they run away with much of one's surplus. 1995 R. B. Outhwaite Clandestine Marriage Eng. 118 Too frequent coronations would run away with the considerable governmental profits that he envisaged flowing from his scheme. e. Of the legs: to carry (a person) quickly forward, as if independently. ΚΠ 1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 199 His Case appears to me like honest Teague's, When he was run away with, by his legs. 1887 Belgravia Sept. 276 I..could hardly prevent my legs from running away with me. 1922 R. F. Griggs Valley of ten Thousand Smokes 231/1 Our legs fairly ran away with us. Despite the accumulated weariness of the day before and the strain of the night, we made the trip to Ukak in record time. 1989 R. Frame Penelope's Hat ii. iv. 40 She left them and let her legs run away with her down the hill. f. Nautical. To haul on (a line) by walking or running steadily. Frequently in to run away with it. ΚΠ 1843 Jack's Edition of Life at Sea xviii. 159 Captain Bullhead..began to encourage the men to run away with the yard rope. 1859 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. 2 374 The boatswain..‘pipes’, the falls are ‘married’, ‘the men run away with it’, and the boat ‘is up’. 1887 J. C. Hutcheson White Squall viii. 113 ‘Hoist away, men!’ cried Mr. Marline. ‘Run away with the falls, you lubbers,’ echoed Moggridge. 1917 Bluejacket's Man. (U.S. Navy) (ed. 5) 296 The rest of the heaving line..is received by men previously detailed, who run away with the heaving line and haul the hawser ashore. 1973 D. Pope Governor Ramage R. N. vii. 78 Ease away and haul in; run away with it, lads. g. To win (a sporting contest, a prize, etc.) easily or by a clear margin. ΚΠ 1886 Gettysburg (Pa.) Compiler 6 July When it came to voting in the convention, Quay's selection of a partner in business ‘on the hill’ ran away with the prize on the first ballot, A. Wilson Norris getting 142 votes to 102 for Grimeson. 1931 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 2 June 7/7 With Stanford out of the national collegiate meet, Southern California is virtually certain to run away with the title. 1969 A. Bennett Forty Years On i. 14 We aren't a rich school, we aren't a powerful school, not any more. We don't set much store by cleverness at Albion House so we don't run away with all the prizes. 1993 Non-League Football Today Mar. 6/2 Many supporters will wonder why, if their team run away with the League championship they should not be promoted regardless of their facilities and solvency. < as lemmas |
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