| 单词 | out of one's beat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of one's beat b. A course habitually traversed by any one; sometimes figurative, esp. in phrase, out of one's beat: not in one's sphere or department. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > habitual round1603 beat1786 route1841 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective] > outside one's knowledge unweeting1303 unwittingc1380 unwistc1385 unware1390 unknowna1393 unknowing1423 unawares1548 unacquainta1699 out of one's beat1839 1786 W. Cowper Let. 1 May (1981) II. 533 The Chesters, the Throckmortons, the Wrightes, are all of them good-natured agreeable people, and I rejoice, for your sake, that they lie all within your beat. 1836 T. P. Thompson Lett. Representative 153 A highwayman could never get more than the value of his beat. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 15 The costermongers repaired to their ordinary ‘beats’ in the suburbs. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 33 Europe, Asia, Africa and America lie somewhat out of their beat. 1854 E. C. Gaskell Let. 27 Oct. (1966) 318 She [sc. Florence Nightingale] said, ‘The prostitutes come in perpetually—poor creatures staggering off their beat!’ 1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 295 Ask him why anything is so and so, and you have got out of his beat. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It vi. 54 His [sc. superintendent of a stage company's] beat or jurisdiction..was called a ‘division’. 1937 N. Marsh Vintage Murder xxii. 245 I am very busy— consulting-room hours in town, and a wide country beat. 1965 New Statesman 7 May 715/2 The world is James Cameron's beat; he has visited every country but three covering the great events of our time, from the Allied victory in Germany to Vietnam, for press and television. < as lemmas |
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