| 单词 | as she goes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas she goes b. Nautical. as she goes: used as a command to maintain a direct course. Chiefly in steady as she goes at steady adv. b. Also as you go. ΚΠ 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 28 Steddy, that is, keep the ship from going in and out, but just upon the point that you are to steere, and as you goe; and such like. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 76 To keep her upon the same Point, they use, Steddy, or as you go. 1793 Bee 28 Aug. 326 Old Binacle the quarter master, kept conning us all the way, with ‘steady as you go boys’. 1839 J. N. Reynolds in Knickerbocker May 385 Keep her off two points! Steady! steady, as she goes! 1898 Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 122 ‘Keep her [sc. the ship] as she goes’, I said. ‘As she goes, sir,’ the man at the wheel..said. 1918 W. J. Henderson in R. Stevens et al. Battle for Pacific viii. 121 ‘Keep her as she goes,’ said Captain Travis. 1999 G. Hackman & D. Lenihan Wake of Perdido Star vii. 112 He yelled to the helmsman, ‘Steady as she goes, lad.’ < as lemmas |
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