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单词 at a distance
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at a distance
a. at a distance. (formerly also †at distance): in a distant or remote position; a way off; some distance apart. Also figurative (cf. sense 8).
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at distancea1425
in the distance?a1439
far to seek?1544
at a distance1697
a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 30 Sir Dauid þe Bruse was at distance, When Edward þe Baliolfe rade with his lance; Þe north end of Ingland teched him to daunce, When he was met on þe more with mekill mischance.
1530 Thorpe's Examinacion sig. G.vi Graunte to vs and to all other, that in the same wyse, and for the same cause specially or for ony other cause be at distaunce, to be knette and made one in true feith.
1549 T. Cooper Lanquet's Epitome of Crons. f. Mmiv The Hunnes, fallyng at distance with the Romaines, spoyled and ouerrunne Thracia and Illiria.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. ii. iv. 575 All these allurements hitherto are afarre off, and at a distance.
1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. 74 To those who at distance do observe it.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ix. 261 At a distance it appears like an Island.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 96. ⁋2 My Master..has often been whipp'd for not keeping me at a distance.
1743 E. F. Heywood Present for Servant-Maid 35 You ought therefore to carry yourself at a Distance towards them; I do not mean with a proud or prudish air.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iii. 29 Having sounded them at a distance, and not finding them so precipitate and vindictive as he expected, he proceeded no further with them.
a1837 E. C. Knight Jrnl. in C. Knight Autobiogr. (1861) I. xiii. 226 It was accompanied by hints that when she had an establishment her ladies should be kept at a distance.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 124 Blanche At distance follow'd.
1976 T. Stoppard Dirty Linen 57 Arthur..shouts loudly into the door through which he enters, as though calling to someone at a distance.
2006 Vanity Fair July 64/1 The officers stood at a distance, presumably consulting on the question of whether this was a demonstration.
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