单词 | to throw in way |
释义 | > as lemmasto throw (also lay, put, etc.) in (a person's) way (ii) to throw (also lay, put, etc.) in (a person's) way: to bring within a person's experience; to make available or susceptible to. ΚΠ 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job xviii. 80/2 These two temptations which are cast in our way are so common, that euery of vs feeleth himselfe to haue neede to bee armed against it. 1621 R. Johnson Way to Glory 44 Let vs not with Atalanta bee allured out of the way, by the golden Apples..which the World, or our owne concupiscence throwes in our way. a1639 H. Wotton Philos. Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 317 But before I lanch from the shoars, let me resolve a main question which may be cast in my way. a1662 B. Duppa Holy Rules & Helps Devotion (1674) i. 83 The Imagination..casting Thoughts in our way, and forcing the Understanding to reflect upon them. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 107 When one man alters the opinion of another by throwing a book, proper for that purpose, in his way. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 154 We have now nothing to live on but Seal, and what Providence throws in our Way. 1763 W. Cowper in R. Southey Life & Wks. Cowper (1835) I. 163 My friends must excuse me, if I write to none but those who lay it fairly in my way to do so. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. i. 18 It might seem as if she had purposely thrown herself in his way again. View more context for this quotation 1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year II. vii. 189 They say he has a cousin who is one of the officers to the Sheriff of Middlesex, and puts a good many little things in his way! 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 12 Her body threw no difficulties in her way: the wash-and-go drip-dry hair, the candid orbits that needed only the mildest of emphases. < as lemmas |
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