| 单词 | to attend, dog steps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto attend, dog (a person's) steps 2. plural. Progress by stepping or treading; a person's movements, his goings and comings, the course which he follows. In many phrases, as to bend or direct one's steps (to a place, etc.); to retrace, tread back, one's steps (see retrace v. 2, tread v. 2b); to conduct, guide a person's steps; to attend, dog (a person's) steps; all used both literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > progress by or course of walking stepsc1000 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > stepping > a step, pace, or tread stepsc1000 pacea1350 treadc1400 footstepc1440 treadingsc1440 footing1567 traces1613 footfalla1616 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > stepping > progress by stepsc1000 c1000 Ags. Ps. xvi. 5 Geriht, Drihten, mine stæpas on þine wegas. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvi. 6 Þat my steppis be noght stirid. 1598 S. Brandon Tragicomoedi of Vertuous Octauia iv. E 5 b Honour attend thy steps. c1605 (?a1500) London Lickpenny (Harl. 367) l. 1 in Anglia (1898) 20 411 To london once my stepps I bent. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 308 Three-fold Vengeance tend vpon your steps . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. iii. 12 Were it not that my fellow schoolemaster Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly. View more context for this quotation 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Fable Acis, Polyphemus & Galatea in Examen Poeticum 88 A Pine..He wielded for a Staff; his steps to guide. 1753 T. Gray Hymn to Adversity in Six Poems 26 Wisdom..And Melancholy..Still on thy solemn steps attend. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. iv. 46 The river pursues a zig-zag course for forty or fifty miles, constantly returning upon its steps. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Flow down, Cold Rivulet 3 No more by thee my steps shall be. 1856 E. Capern Poems (ed. 2) 151 And may no rude steps intrude On thy happy solitude. 1858 E. J. Trelawny Rec. Shelley, Byron (1887) 184 Envy, malice and hatred bedogged his steps. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay ii. 20 He directed his steps to the hotel. < as lemmas |
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