| 单词 | to work one's passage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto work one's passage P7. to work one's passage and variants: to pay for a journey by undertaking work; spec. to pay for one's passage on a ship by working during the voyage. Also figurative.Apparently arising from ellipsis of for in to work for one's passage; but cf. to work out 2 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work to pay for passage on ship to work one's passage1727 society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > practice the calling of a sailor [verb (intransitive)] > work one's passage to work one's passage1727 1727 P. Longueville Hermit ii. 121 He sees..Hay-makers, going to work,..and resolves to make one of their Number, and work his passage up to London. 1803 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 25 Aug. (1941) I. 257 He was just come from America... I do not think that he had brought much [money] back with him, for he had worked his passage over. 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 8 A pretty yellow-haired lad,..who works his passage out. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxv. 236 Some months afterwards Amory made his appearance at Calcutta, having worked his way out before the mast from the Cape. 1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 365/1 An educated young Englishman..worked his passage as a coal-passer and ash-heaver. 1946 T. H. White Mistress Masham's Repose xix. 126 The first scheme was to work his passage to London as a bus conductor. 1958 Oxf. Mag. 15 May 448/2 Italy, liberated piecemeal and ‘working her passage’ to the improved status of the Hyde Park Declaration and the New Deal for Italy. 1973 Times 20 Mar. 13/2 One of the greatest bores in packing is choosing which shoes to take... They are heavy..and do not really work their passage. 2010 G. Ridley Discov. J. Baret ix. 233 Sober, professional soldiers who wanted to work their passage back to France. < as lemmas |
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