单词 | look towards |
释义 | > as lemmasto look towards —— to look towards —— 1. intransitive. a. = to look toward —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look in specific direction to look toward ——c1225 to look towards ——1534 respect1555 to look ahead1805 1534 G. Gardynare Let. Yonge Gentylman f. x Streyght lokynge towardes it agayne, sawe the stone remoued. 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. C4v Looking towards the sea, [we] remembred the burning of our ship. a1649 G. Abbott Brief Notes Psalms (1651) 155 Therefore will I..longingly and prayerfully look towards thine holy sanctuary. 1692 T. Taylor tr. G. Daniel Voy. World Cartesius ii. 170 He looked towards the Earth, to see what Hour it was. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 97 In the Morning looking towards the Sea-side,..I saw something lye on the Shore bigger than ordinary. 1787 J. Madison Notes Deb. Federal Convent. 17 Sept. in Papers (1840) III. 1624 Doctor Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed [etc.] 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 760/2 I looked towards the city, and, behold, a dark cloud had gathered over it! 1870 W. Bottrell Trad. & Hearthside Stories W. Cornwall 104 When I looked towards the door again there was nobody nor nothing there. 1919 Boys' Life Nov. 24/3 Wi' that, he looks towards his men. 1991 J. Alvarez How Garcia Girls lost their Accents i. i. 16 The little boy looks towards his grandmother, unsure of what to think. 2012 Independent 18 July 21/4 Looking towards the sky, he said he was just hoping for some good weather soon that he could harvest the crops he needs. b. colloquial. to look towards (a person): to drink to a person's health. Chiefly as a toast, in I look towards you, here's looking towards you. Cf. to look toward (a person) at Phrasal verbs 2, here's looking at you at Phrases 1a(h). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink toasts or healths hailc1275 to drink (a person's) hailc1325 to drink good lucka1529 pledge1546 carouse1583 skola1599 to drink off (or eat) candle-ends1600 health1628 to begin to a person1629 bumper1691 toast1699 to drink hob or nob, hob a nob1756 hob-nob1763 hobber-nob1800 to look towards (a person)1833 propine1887 ganbei1940 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > pledge or toast to drink to1530 pledge1546 brince?1567 brinks1568 carouse1583 dipa1657 toast1700 respect1708 bumper?1764 to look toward ——1833 propine1887 skol1935 ganbei1976 1833 New Sporting Mag. Feb. 253/2 I look towards you, sir; your health, Mr.——. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair liii. 475 The ladies drank to his 'ealth, and Mr. Moss, in the most polite manner ‘looked towards him’. 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) iii. 22 The Pet..drank their healths with the prefatory remark, ‘I looks to-wards you gents!’ 1890 B. L. Farjeon Myst. M. Felix I. iii. 26 Mrs. Middlemore,..you're a lady after my own heart... Here's looking towards you. 1910 A. Noyes Coll. Poems I. 241 I looks to-wards you, Prester John, you've done us very proud! 1938 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 2 Oct. (This Week Mag.) 19/2 ‘Aggie May,’ said Emmeline, raising her glass, ‘I looks towards you.’ 2. intransitive. = to look toward —— 2 at Phrasal verbs 2. ΚΠ 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania ii. 259 No thought of my side tended, or looked towards ill. 1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Perseverance xv. 370 That which looketh towards the Argument under Consideration, appeareth first in Sect. 31. 1778 Gentleman's & London Mag. May 275/1 The house rejected an absentee tax, because it looked towards a land-tax. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxiv. 514 The bear seems to look towards the sloth. 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xliv. 330 There could be nothing looking towards marriage between us. 1915 Michigan Alumnus Mar. 312/2 Steps will be taking looking towards a joint luncheon of alumni of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Michigan. 1972 New Scientist 4 May 252 Steelmen the world over are looking towards direct reduction as a means for turning iron ore into steel in the future. 2006 Y. Petrova in P. Nilan & C. Feixa Global Youth? 201 Pluri-ethnic-multicultural identities which look towards a genuinely multicultural world. to look towards (a person) b. colloquial. to look towards (a person): to drink to a person's health. Chiefly as a toast, in I look towards you, here's looking towards you. Cf. to look toward (a person) at Phrasal verbs 2, here's looking at you at Phrases 1a(h). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink toasts or healths hailc1275 to drink (a person's) hailc1325 to drink good lucka1529 pledge1546 carouse1583 skola1599 to drink off (or eat) candle-ends1600 health1628 to begin to a person1629 bumper1691 toast1699 to drink hob or nob, hob a nob1756 hob-nob1763 hobber-nob1800 to look towards (a person)1833 propine1887 ganbei1940 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > pledge or toast to drink to1530 pledge1546 brince?1567 brinks1568 carouse1583 dipa1657 toast1700 respect1708 bumper?1764 to look toward ——1833 propine1887 skol1935 ganbei1976 1833 New Sporting Mag. Feb. 253/2 I look towards you, sir; your health, Mr.——. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair liii. 475 The ladies drank to his 'ealth, and Mr. Moss, in the most polite manner ‘looked towards him’. 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) iii. 22 The Pet..drank their healths with the prefatory remark, ‘I looks to-wards you gents!’ 1890 B. L. Farjeon Myst. M. Felix I. iii. 26 Mrs. Middlemore,..you're a lady after my own heart... Here's looking towards you. 1910 A. Noyes Coll. Poems I. 241 I looks to-wards you, Prester John, you've done us very proud! 1938 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 2 Oct. (This Week Mag.) 19/2 ‘Aggie May,’ said Emmeline, raising her glass, ‘I looks towards you.’ < as lemmas |
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