| 单词 | that way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthat way (a) In prepositional phrases and noun phrases used adverbially, as this way, that way, which way, the other way, all ways, etc.See also the right way at right adj. and int. Phrases 1c, the wrong way at wrong adj. 9a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [noun] sideOE wayOE coast1377 partc1380 airta1400 quarter1604 carriage1663 direction1665 range1678 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxvi. 397 Me [sc. St Peter] he clypað nu to his rice, awendað for þi mine fotwelmas to þam heofonlican wege. c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 34 (MED) Ne lettere E ne seruyth nat but for to shewe the which wey þt thow shalt procede fro lettere D. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22573 Þe fixses þat þar-in er stade,..Til erth wai [Gött. Till erdward] þan sal þai fle. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail liii. l. 302 The kyng Abowtes sente be Every way bothe Aftyr Masowns And Carpentere, An hows Of Religiown to Fownden there. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Ci As for almayne lyeth this way Here lyeth denmarke and norway And northwarde on this syde There lyeth Iselonde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 62 By the pricking of my Thumbes, Something wicked this way comes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 52 Oh turne thy edged Sword another way. 1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 31 As take a straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 571 This way, and that his winding Course he bends. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 190 Our advantageous Ground was the Destruction of a great many Thousands of the French, for we had them all Ways, Front, and Rear, and Flank. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. x. 54 A pull of a trigger—a push of a bayonet an inch this way or that—makes the difference. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xi. 277 Janet..ventured to ask her lady, which way she proposed to direct her flight. 1846 G. P. R. James Step-mother II. xxxviii. 106 The instant he entered—though the servant said, ‘this way, sir.’ 1875 Belgravia July 133 He passed round, the way of the wine, a subscription-list, and the conversation flowed fast and furious. 1908 C. Igglesden Saunter through Kent VIII. 22 On the Canterbury road, which runs in a southerly way out of the village, stands an old Georgian residence. 1928 J. M. Barrie Peter Pan i, in Plays 32 Wendy: Where do you live now? Peter: With the lost boys... They are the children who fall out of their prams when the nurse is looking the other way. 1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn ii. i. 103 There it was, faced this way and faced that way. 1994 Daily Mail 29 Sept. 9/1 He helped me..out of a terrible mess when I hadn't got a clue which way to turn. 2014 J. Al-Khalili & J. McFadden Life on Edge iv. 126 It resembles the path taken by an intoxicated drinker exiting a bar, wandering this way and that until he eventually finds his way home. that way b. figurative indicating the content or nature of a person's opinions, preferences, talents, etc., or the direction of a course of events or likely outcome of a situation or action. Usually in noun phrases used adverbially, esp. that way. Now chiefly in that way inclined: inclined towards something; also (euphemistic) homosexual.With reference to person's opinions or preferences, frequently in predicative use: see Phrases 7g(b). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > that way or condition waya1516 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual inverted1870 Uranian1883 homosexual1892 homogenic1894 camp1910 homosex1913 queer1914 homoerotic1915 homosexualist1920 homo1923 faggoty1928 tapette1930 fag1932 gay1934 so1937 same-sex1938 faggy1949 ginger beer1959 that waya1960 that way inclineda1960 ginger1965 minty1965 pink1972 leather1990 a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens i. sig. b.ivv A wyll ye take it that way My lady I ment not so parde. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. ccxlv/2 For the duke of Lancastre wolde haue had me for his sonne the erle of Derby, and the erle of Foiz enclyned rather that waye than to you. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. ii. 71 My liking goes not that way. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 20 O that way madnes lies, Let me shun that. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 386 He was not enclin'd that way . View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Lovers Progres i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iii4v/1 Leon. You are Poeticall. Mal. Something given that way. 1652 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples (new ed.) ii. 90 Three Brothers were detected to have a Design that way. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 108. ¶7 Finding his Genius did not lie that Way. 1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. x. 227 You must not compare me with them... They are patterns of excellence. I am all the other way. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. x. 163 Both ‘smalls’ and ‘greats’ are sufficiently distant to be altogether ignored if we are that way inclined. 1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 126 Foxe, whose evidence is often one way and his assertions the other. 1916 A. Bennett These Twain xx. 518 ‘He simply hates doing a thing straight off.’ ‘Yes, he is rather that way inclined.’ 1954 Manch. Guardian 20 May 2/3 To make light of it and simply to say ‘He is that way inclined. He likes doing that and why should he not?’ is a complete perversion of the doctrine of tolerance. a1960 E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) vii. 42 The Greeks, or most of them, were that way inclined, and to omit it is to omit the mainstay of Athenian society. 1991 Sun 13 June 1/1 You could tell by the way he walked and talked he was that way inclined. 2002 Digital Photogr. made Easy No. 12. 68/3 There is a 10-second timer for taking photos of yourself if you are that way inclined. that way g. that way (in predicative use). extracted from wayn.1int.1 (a) That has a specified tendency, condition, or character. to get that way: to come to be in a particular condition. ΚΠ 1707 F. Atterbury Large Vindic. Doctr. Funeral Serm. T. Bennet 32 As to the words themselves, there is nothing in them that sounds that way. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xi in Tales Fashionable Life VI. xi. 187 This is what makes you weak, fretting. Don't be that way. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers l. 544 ‘I'm afraid you are wet.’.. ‘Yes, I am, a little that way.’ 1850 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 27 Sept. 7/6 That fatness is rare and admired, or at least marvelled at in these districts... People could not get that way in the country, he said, but they did in the towns. 1895 Whist June 4/2 I'm that way myself—‘well-trained’. 1919 Outing Mar. 311/1 ‘How does he get that way?’ Kramer answers by giving his ‘three rules of living’, as follows:—1—Always get enough sleep. 2—Never eat too much. 3—Never dissipate. 1927 Enemy No. 2. 72 They made the river as dead as a door-nail with their railroads and it has been that way ever since. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 91 It got that way in the end that I used to look forward to seeing Nolan and his team come lumbering down from the north. 1976 T. Murphy On Inside in Plays: 4 (1997) 203 No need to be that way about it. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Apr. a6/2 Somalia is notoriously fragmented between dozens of rival clans and subclans, and has been that way for centuries. 2014 A. Schrag Adam i. 6 Her nipples looked hard, and despite his paranoia, Adam could feel himself getting that way too. (b) spec. (i) With about (also over). In love with; infatuated with. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] amorousc1330 in love (with)a1398 in amours1523 passionate1534 browden1597 inamorate1606 enamoureda1631 épris1793 that way1865 kissy1873 pash1920 potty1923 keen1936 1865 M. Reid White Gauntlet II. xv. 259 ‘Sweet upon him! Who said I was?’ ‘Well, nobody as I knows on; but everybody say he be that way about you.’ 1928 Life 2 Nov. 12/3 The boy fell in love with her! Madly in love..and she Got That Way over him, also. 1965 J. P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono xxiii. 207 Sharon. Be reasonable. I thought you were ‘that way’ about Roderick. 2001 L. Server Robert Mitchum 161 She had met a guy earlier in the year and was that way about him. (ii) euphemistic. Homosexual. Cf. that way inclined at sense A. 13b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual inverted1870 Uranian1883 homosexual1892 homogenic1894 camp1910 homosex1913 queer1914 homoerotic1915 homosexualist1920 homo1923 faggoty1928 tapette1930 fag1932 gay1934 so1937 same-sex1938 faggy1949 ginger beer1959 that waya1960 that way inclineda1960 ginger1965 minty1965 pink1972 leather1990 a1960 E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) xii. 62 In his second year he met Risley, himself ‘that way’. a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xvi. 185 I divined that he was homosexual, or as we put it, ‘one of us,’ ‘that way’, ‘so’, or ‘queer’. 2012 L. Casey Pariah Man iv. 34 Once the other guys start thinking you're weak, they'll think you're ‘that way’. < as lemmas |
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