| 单词 | hither and yon |
| 释义 | > as lemmashither and yon (yond) 5. Phr. hither and thither n. To this place and that, in this direction and in that (alternately); to and fro; in various directions. [In Old English; also with genitive endings hidres ðidres.] So hither and yon (yond). dialect and U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > to and fro [phrase] hither and thitherc725 downa1200 to and fro1340 to and again1612 back and forward1613 sourse deorse1616 backward and forwarda1711 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither hither and thitherc725 here and there1297 from place to placea1398 hitherward and thitherwarda1398 from post to pillarc1500 from pillar to posta1550 from wig to wall1602 hither and yon1787 hither and yond1831 c725 Corpus Gl. 2148 Ultroque citroque, hider ond ðider [MS. hider]. c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xl. §5 Ac ic ondræde þæt ic þe læde hidres þidres on þa paþas of þinum wege. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care ix. 59 Ðæt scip..Drifen hider and ðider. c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. xiii. [xii.] 428 Ða ahof ic mine eagan upp & locade hider & geond. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 16001 Þai iesus ledd..Bath hider & þedir. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. i. 69 I sawe hym..fle hyder and thyder. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xv. 308 Hether and thether still the Spirit strayes. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Hither and yon, here and there, backwards and forwards. North. 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie II. ii. 20 Noo that they're hither and yont frae ane anither. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 34 A Power..that moves us hither and thither through the ordinary Courses of our lives. hither and yon b. hither and yon: hither and thither, this way and that. Originally dialect. Cf. yonder adv. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither hither and thitherc725 here and there1297 from place to placea1398 hitherward and thitherwarda1398 from post to pillarc1500 from pillar to posta1550 from wig to wall1602 hither and yon1787 hither and yond1831 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Hither and yon, here and there, backwards and forwards. North. 1836 J. Galt in Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 3 33 She swayed hither and yon, and was so coggly that I had fears of a catastrophe on the floor. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 379/2 The bass dashed hither and yon at the end of his tether, but all the time working up-stream and toward the rod. 1903 H. James Ambassadors ii. v. 57 What carried him hither and yon was an admirable theory that nothing he could do would not be in some manner related to what he fundamentally had on hand. 1939 W. S. Maugham Christmas Holiday iv. 94 The wan characters of Chekov's stories drifted hither and yon at the breath of circumstance like dead leaves before the wind. 1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 52 Untidy chain or belt drives running hither and yon. 1978 Nature 27 Apr. 768/2 It is inaccurate, full of fanciful and unilluminating analogies, infuriatingly unsystematic, and skims hither and yon over the surface of the subject. < as lemmas |
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