| 单词 | to come at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come at —— to come at —— . 1. intransitive. a. To move or travel so as to be near or next to; to approach. Also: †to attend or be present at (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] to come at ——OE ofseche?c1225 approachc1305 proachc1450 coast1531 to make up to1596 accost1597 OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxv. 43 Ic wæs..on cwearterne & ge ne comon æt me. c1450 (?a1400) Sege Melayne (1880) l. 505 Þay wolde noghte come att Paresche To þay had offerde to Seyne Denys. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xlix. 71 Many ladyes and damoysels were come at the weddyng of a maide. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. f. lxviiv/1 Ye vnyuersyte, where he was..ere he cam at you. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon (i) sig. Bv We wyll neuer come more at scole. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. viii. 86 Oloödemvs..would not come at the Court. 1659 Armies Declar. Examined 20 They might have been heard next day if they had pleased, but that they had nothing to say for themselves, nor would come at the Parliament. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Jewish War iv. viii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 868 This countrey is then so sadly burnt up, that no body cares to come at it. 1829 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. 15 Apr. 81/2 We keep with great gallop, till we come at a great crowd of the people. 1894 W. M. Conway Climbing & Explor. Karakoram-Himalayas xxiv. 550 We could not tell when we got on to the glacier, coming at it from the side. 1940 R. Ellison in S. Alexander Amer. Writing 32 He wound up and pitched, the apple humming as it whipped through the air. Riley saw it coming at him. 1969 ‘G. Black’ Cold Jungle x. 142 Headlights came at us. Rob dipped. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 July b3/5 He still can't get over a visit to Cleveland in 1988..and ‘the thousands of people coming at us with pictures to autograph’. b. To move suddenly or quickly towards so as to attack; to attack. Also figurative. Cf. to come for —— 2 at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > make hostile approach to runOE to seek on (also upon)c1230 pursuec1300 yerna1400 seek1487 visitc1515 coast1531 accost1597 to come at ——1601 to make against ——1628 to make at ——1637 tilt1796 rush1823 to come for ——1870 to move in1941 bum-rush1988 1601 tr. M. Martínez 9th Pt. Mirrour of Knight-hood sig. T2 He came at him in such sort with his battel-axe, as would haue made Mars afeard. 1651–7 T. Barker Art of Angling (1820) 20 The Salmon will come at a Gudgeon. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions xi. 240 He came at him with such Fury, that he really thought he would have run him thro' the Body. 1799 P. Henly Life 24 The old man..came at me with an intent to kill me. 1855 Western Lit. Messenger Mar. 22/2 The guards in the main trench came at them with the bayonet. 1889 A. Lang Prince Prigio ix. 65 He rose on a pair of flaming wings, and came right at the prince. 1905 H. G. Wells Kipps ii. iii. 197 The bull really came at them. 1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock vi. 107 My troubles came at me from all sides, and soaked it to me till my conscience fairly ached. 1968 G. M. Williams From Scenes like These ii. 42 When they came at him, ready to hammer him into the ground, he'd bamboozle them..sending them chasing in the wrong direction. 2002 J. Harvey Gimme Gimme Gimme 131 She's a real practical trickster... Pretending to come at me with a crowbar every time I stepped foot outside! 2. intransitive. To get hold of, obtain (sometimes implying a degree of effort or difficulty); to get at, attain. Also: to attain to knowledge of, to understand. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] wieldeOE haveeOE ofgoOE oweOE addlec1175 winc1175 avela1200 to come by ——a1225 covera1250 oughtc1275 reachc1275 hentc1300 purchasec1300 to come to ——c1330 getc1330 pickc1330 chevise1340 fang1340 umbracec1350 chacche1362 perceivea1382 accroacha1393 achievea1393 to come at ——a1393 areach1393 recovera1398 encroach?a1400 chevec1400 enquilec1400 obtainc1422 recurec1425 to take upc1425 acquirea1450 encheve1470 sortise1474 conques?a1500 tain1501 report1508 conquest1513 possess1526 compare1532 cough1550 coff1559 fall1568 reap1581 acquist1592 accrue1594 appurchasec1600 recoil1632 to get at ——1666 to come into ——1672 rise1754 net1765 to fall in for1788 to scare up1846 access1953 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach (a point or place) [verb (transitive)] areach1014 reachOE ofreachlOE overtakec1225 catchc1330 acomec1350 touchc1384 getc1390 to come at ——a1393 henta1393 overreacha1400 win?1473 aspire1581 obtain1589 attainc1592 make1610 gaina1616 acquire1665 advene1684 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 914 If thou art such in love, Thou miht noght come at thin above Of that thou woldest wel achieve. 1557 Confut. Tyndales Aunswere (new ed.) in Wks. Sir T. More 695/2 We can neuer come at it withoute the helpe of God. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Ciii Least..they be choaked with the haune before they can come at the karnell. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xxxiv. 106 Plutarch reporteth, that he saw a Dog in a ship casting stones into a pipe of oile, to make the oile to mount, that hee might the better come at it. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ vii. 111 If they [sc. mice] can come at them, you will have but few left. 1747 R. Lucas in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 464 They are cheap, easily come at, and prepared by one's self. 1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Chron. 179/1 The defendant, being then abroad, could not be come at. 1817 Edinb. Rev. Mar. 7 If actual want be the only qualification required, this can be easily come at. 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 133/1 Lord Brougham's opinion of democracy is hard to come at. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae iii. 64 How to come at the path. 1926 R. Fry Transformations 1 Honesty is..very difficult to come at, since in this matter we are all excessively auto-suggestible. 1943 K. A. Porter Let. 21 May (1990) iv. 263 Some of the great things of the world, even if they have a surface simplicity, are very deep and difficult to come at fully. 2011 Cathedral Music May 37/2 He..set himself to collect all the written church music, either in score or in parts that he could come at. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] nighc1175 to come at ——a1398 sport1577 lumber1938 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxv. 1166 Þe male comeþ nought at hire [L. non accedit ad eam] but in þe sixte monþe after þe whelpynge. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xix. 15 Be ready agaynst the thirde daye, and no man come at his wife. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 156v After the Catte hath kitned, she commeth no more at [L. non amplius adire] the Bucke. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 433 Both [men and women] may well heare the reader..but not come at each other. 1729 J. Hippisley Flora i. i. 8 When you have persuaded your Lover to make the same Proposal under his Hand, I shall then believe you are equally mad to come at one another. 4. intransitive. Australian and New Zealand slang. To take on, tackle; to undertake; to get up to; to try. Also: to agree to, to accept. Frequently in negative constructions. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > undertake [verb (transitive)] underfoc893 fandOE onfangOE undernimc1000 takec1175 to take tillc1175 to take toa1250 underfongc1330 undertakea1340 to take in (also on) handa1350 undertakec1385 attamec1386 to take in (also on) handc1390 embrace1393 emprisec1410 to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410 to go upon ——c1450 enterprise?1473 to set (one's) hand to1477 go?a1500 accept1524 assume1530 to hent in (also upon) handc1540 to swallow up1544 to take to task1546 to go into ——?1548 to set in hand1548 to fare about1563 entertain1569 undergo1606 to set about ——1611 to take up1660 to come at ——1901 1901 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Sept. 14/2 For the fourteenth time he ‘came’ At a bottle of unknown brand. 1911 A. Wright Gambler's Gold (1923) 118 Punters were watching for a move that the stable was backing... It came at last; the word went round that — was ‘coming at’ Gorki. 1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target 95 Don't come at that, you Wog..bastard. 1964 People 16 Dec. 45/1 A chesty little cockney bloke who'd come at anything. 1969 Coast to Coast 1967–8 164 I told you before I wouldn't come at that again. It's too risky. 1984 Age (Melbourne) 18 Sept. 17/6 I was a great advocate of Hawke's... I went to Canberra deliberately to see him. I spent a week there, but watching him at a distance I just couldn't come at it. 2007 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 June (Sport section) 6 Anything that promotes a weak body and a weak mind I just can't come at. 5. intransitive. To consider or address (a problem, question, etc.) in a particular way. ΚΠ 1924 Survey 1 Mar. 664/2 He approaches rural water development from several sides. He comes at it from the side of an inventor... He comes at it from the side of a business man. 1929 Enemy No. 3. 40 What is the difference, spiritually, between these two ventures, except that one is labelled ‘communist’ quite frankly and the other coming at it from the art-angle. 1973 A. W. Roberts & D. E. Varberg Convex Functions p. xvi Most mathematicians interested in convexity come at it from a geometric point of view. 1989 S. E. Cozzens Social Control & Multiple Discov. in Sci. 78 Snyder..came at the problem from a different tradition. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 June 24/1 Coming at it with fresh eyes, a different perspective, these doctors might be able to find the answer. < as lemmas |
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