| 单词 | to tread a person's steps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tread a person's steps b. †to tread a person's steps (figurative), to walk in the steps of, follow the example of (obsolete); to tread back one's steps (figurative), to retrace one's steps (now rare or obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > look back, retrospect [verb (intransitive)] > return to a topic returnc1405 resortc1425 relent?c1500 recur1620 remountc1740 to tread back one's steps1777 hark back1829 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > turn back or retrace one's steps charec1000 i-cherrec1000 again-wendOE again-turna1375 to turn backc1425 reflect1608 redambulate1623 to tread back one's steps1777 back track1802 to try back1816 back-track1904 back-trail1907 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 100 To..tread the steppes of Gods sonne. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 117 S. Philip..was fastened to the Crosse, and stoned to death, treading the steps both of his Master, and of Stephen. a1704 T. Brown Ess. Women in 4th Vol. Wks. (1709) i. 36 They tread the Steps of their Parents, meerly by instinct. 1752 S. Foote Taste Ded. p. v In the following Sheets her Steps have been trod with an indeviating Simplicity. 1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit i. 1 The means of inducing the philosophical part of the world to tread back their steps. 1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 243 We must tread back our steps. < as lemmas |
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