| 单词 | go on |
| 释义 | go on 1. phrasal verb B2 If you go on doing something, or go on with an activity, you continue to do it. Unemployment is likely to go on rising this year. [VERB PARTICLE verb-ing] I'm all right here. Go on with your work. [VERB PARTICLE + with] I don't want to leave, but I can't go on. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B1+ If something is going on, it is happening. While this conversation was going on, I was listening with earnest attention. [VERB PARTICLE] I don't know what's going on. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb B1+ If a process or institution goes on, it continues to happen or exist. The population failed to understand the necessity for the war to go on. [VERB PARTICLE] 4. phrasal verb B2 If you say that a period of time goes on, you mean that it passes. Renewable energy will become progressively more important as time goes on. [VERB PARTICLE] 5. phrasal verb If you go on to do something, you do it after you have done something else. Alliss retired from golf in 1969 and went on to become a successful broadcaster. [VERB PARTICLE to-infinitive] She went on to say that she had discussed it with the Canadian foreign minister. [VERB PARTICLE to-infinitive] 6. phrasal verb If you go on to a place, you go to it from the place that you have reached. He goes on to Holland tomorrow. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] 7. phrasal verb B2 If you go on, you continue saying something or talking about something. Meer cleared his throat several times before he went on. [VERB PARTICLE] 'Go on,' Chee went on. 'I'm interested.' [VERB PARTICLE with quote] 8. phrasal verb If you go on about something, or in British English go on at someone, you continue talking about the same thing, often in an annoying way. [informal] Expectations have been raised with the Government going on about choice and market forces. [V P + about] She's always going on at me to have a baby. [VERB PARTICLE + at] 9. phrasal verb B1+ You say 'Go on' to someone to persuade or encourage them to do something. [informal] Go on, it's fun. [VERB PARTICLE] 10. phrasal verb If you talk about the information you have to go on, you mean the information you have available to base an opinion or judgment on. But you have to go on the facts. [VERB PARTICLE noun] There's not much to go on. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 11. phrasal verb B1+ See full dictionary entry for go If an electrical device goes on, it begins operating. A light went on at seven every evening. [VERB PARTICLE] Translations: Chinese: 继续 Japanese: 続ける |
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