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单词 back and fore
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back and fore
14.back and fore (archaic or dialect), back and forth, back and forward: backwards and forwards, to and fro. Also as attributive phr.
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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] > back and forth
to and fro1340
to and again1612
back and forward1613
backward and forwarda1711
1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. 196 Lengthning the time by..vnnecessarie turnings, backe and forth.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxiii. 107 He would go back and fore [printed sore] along the foresaid rope.
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits ii. 5 All Material Benefits are tossed back, and forward, and change their Master.
1816 J. Pickering Vocab. U.S. (at cited word) Back and Forth, backwards and forwards. Ex. He was walking back and forth. This is a very common expression in New England; but it is used only in conversation.
1837 W. Dunlap Mem. Water Drinker (ed. 2) I. 57 I am not one of your brook trout to be played back and forth with a hair line as her husband catches um.
1839 Anecd. & Trad. (Camd.) Young girls..dance over the candle back and forth.
1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 199 Barristers..flitted back and forward through the passages.
1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 138 They would run here and there, back and forth, at full speed along the sands.
1872 Congr. Rec. Dec. 243/1 Various propositions were made [between the U.S. and France] back and forth.
1884 Roe in Harper's Mag. Sept. 540/2 I will go back and forth every day.
1899 Congress. Rec. Feb. 1743/1 Some of you..remember when at Vicksburg our boys got so close to the Confederates that they talked back and forth.
1907 U. Sinclair Industr. Republic p. xii I would find myself comparing..the two eras, and transposing its leading figures back and forth.
1909 E. B. Titchener Text-bk. Psychol. I. x. 47 This back-and-forth movement will continue.
1962 Listener 1 Mar. 377/1 Both dangers can be avoided if there is enough back-and-forth traffic of ideas, information, and influence.
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