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单词 to come between
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to be (also come, stand) between
17. figurative. to be (also come, stand) between a person and any object desired, or anything threatening him; between combatants, etc.
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c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 657 Now is þer noȝt in þe worlde rounde Bytwene vus & blysse.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 549 To go betweene, or to be betweene..to make intercession, to lette, to prohibite.
1774 T. Blacklock Graham i. xxiv With pallid cheek, and trembling frame, Between the combatants she came.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iii. 103 A sinful wretch implores That thou would'st stand between him and the wrath Of an offended God.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 55 How could Doris come between us two?
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1. intransitive. To act as a mediator or intermediary between (two or more parties). Also (and in earliest use) with prepositional object implied by the context. Cf. to come in between —— 2 at Phrasal verbs 2. Somewhat rare in later use.In later use chiefly in relation to, or as an explanation of, the term mediator.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > find means to do something [verb (intransitive)] > act as intermediate means
to go betweenc1320
to come between ——?1492
intercede1578
factor1621
intermediate1624
trample1624
mediate1630
intervene1646
to come in between ——1676
?1492 tr. Raymond of Capua Lyf St. Katherin of Senis (de Worde) ii. vii. sig. i.vjv/2 Mene persons came bytwene for to make peas.
1579 T. Churchyard Gen. Rehearsall Warres sig. C.iv.v The Prince of Orange and many other noble personages, came betwene the twoo powers, and made a peace.
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) v. 44 There's a difference arising between the first Testament, and the last, from the several Mediators that came between God and the people.
1693 J. Austen tr. in Lives of Illustrious Romans 14 The Women came between both Armies, and mediating with their Fathers and Husbands, at last procured a Peace.
1716 M. Hole Pract. Disc. Liturgy Church of Eng. IV. li. 416 A Mediator..is one that comes between two Parties, to make up some Breach or Difference.
1883 Wesleyan Sunday-school Mag. 17 June 286 A mediator is some one who, having knowledge of, and sympathy with two others who are at variance, comes between them, and sets them at one again.
1921 Freeman 17 Aug. 538/2 No intermediary comes between the public and the art.
2001 J. M. Boice Whatever happened to Gospel of Grace? (2009) 101 A mediator is one who comes between the two parties in order to represent each to the other or to reconcile them.
2. intransitive. To interfere so as to disrupt or break relations between (two or more parties); to act as an obstacle between. Also (and earliest) with prepositional object implied by context. Cf. to come in between —— 1 at Phrasal verbs 2.
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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. 34 He was minded..to have forgone and given over, had not this wicked intestine practise from his owne familie come betweene.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 78 No obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance,..can come betweene me, and the full prospect of my hopes. View more context for this quotation
1700 T. Southerne Fate of Capua i. i. 22 Why didst thou come between him, and my Heart?
1781 J. Ramsay Sea Serm. ii. 32 You..are..obliged to take care, that neither your bad lives, nor your disobedience and ill conduct in the service, may ever come between her and the success, which Providence designs to bestow on her by your hands.
1838 C. C. Bury Love II. xi. 98 My officious brother came between me and happiness.
1896 Argosy Jan. 368/1 I shall think of you only as the dear companion of those happy days of boyhood when no discord had come between us.
1932 E. Ferber They brought their Women (1933) 194 Goodness knows I'm not the sort of wife to come between her husband and his friends.
1978 L. A. Hunt Revol. & Urban Politics Provinc. France 66 Incontrovertible political differences came between them.
2015 A. Buist Medea's Curse 248 I felt it came between us, that pregnancy.
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