英语词汇“to follow through”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. intransitive. Sport. In golf, cricket, and other sports: to continue the movement of a stroke, throw, or kick after the ball, etc., has been struck or released. Also occasionally transitive: to continue (a stroke, throw, or kick) after the ball, etc., has been struck or released. Cf. follow-through n. and adj.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (intransitive)] > movements

to follow through1857

borrow1897

knuckle1909

1857 H. B. Farnie Golfer's Man. vi. 48 The player must allow his stroke to be stopped immediately on striking the intercepting grass..; should he attempt to make his club follow through it, as on open ground, the probable consequence would be that the shaft would be shivered.

1891 Golf 1 Feb. 340/2 After the impact the club-head should not be stopped abruptly, but should ‘follow through’.

1926 Acton Gaz. 16 Apr. 4/4 Backhand Drive.—Watch the ball all the way, and strike very deliberately, taking care to follow-through with the racket afterwards.

1938 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 5 Aug. 294/3 The batsman follows through, and..the twist of the right forearm is eloquent of the push delivered.

1940 Open Road for Boys Sept. 20/3 As you follow through, concentrate on straightening your kicking foot and keeping your balance foot on the ground.

1967 Tennis (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 1 The racket is following through.

1993 J. Khan & K. Pratt Learn Squash & Racquetball in Weekend (N.Y. ed.) (front cover) Use your left arm to help keep you steady as you follow through the stroke.

2010 D. Fischer Cool Sports Dad iv. 85 After striking the ball, it is important to follow through completely.

2. intransitive and transitive. To continue (an action or task) to the end; to bring (something) to its conclusion.

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1914 Trade Outlook (U.S.) Aug. 114/2 The surgeon who..saves the life of his patient in spite of the dangers of septicemia, nervous shock and loss of blood, ‘follows through’. The lawyer who not only gets his case to the jury by successfully arguing a difficult point of law with the court, but also gets a verdict from the jury, ‘follows through’.

1934 L. H. Watson Play at Contract Bridge xvi. 149 If you are going to play a hand by cross-ruffing, you must follow it through.

1973 A. Garner Red Shift 32 I keep telling you this is a different war, and we follow it through.

2013 T. Burns Our Necessary Shadow iv. 95 The therapist challenges the patient to follow through logically the implications of his or her (the patient's) thinking.

3. intransitive. colloquial. To defecate accidentally, usually immediately after breaking wind.In quot. ?1927-8 probably with pun on sense 1.

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?1927–8 J. Fliesler Anecdota Americana 143 ‘At the foorth hole I left a poop.’ ‘That can happen to all of us,’ his friend again said. ‘I ken, I ken, but I followed through,’ said Sandy.

1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1999) 24 Ah fart, and instantly follow through, feeling the wet sludge in ma pants.

2010 Viz May 41/1 BOOAFT, Barked one out and followed through.

单词	to follow through
释义	> as lemmas to follow through to follow through 1. intransitive. Sport. In golf, cricket, and other sports: to continue the movement of a stroke, throw, or kick after the ball, etc., has been struck or released. Also occasionally transitive: to continue (a stroke, throw, or kick) after the ball, etc., has been struck or released. Cf. follow-through n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (intransitive)] > movements to follow through1857 borrow1897 knuckle1909 1857 H. B. Farnie Golfer's Man. vi. 48 The player must allow his stroke to be stopped immediately on striking the intercepting grass..; should he attempt to make his club follow through it, as on open ground, the probable consequence would be that the shaft would be shivered. 1891 Golf 1 Feb. 340/2 After the impact the club-head should not be stopped abruptly, but should ‘follow through’. 1926 Acton Gaz. 16 Apr. 4/4 Backhand Drive.—Watch the ball all the way, and strike very deliberately, taking care to follow-through with the racket afterwards. 1938 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 5 Aug. 294/3 The batsman follows through, and..the twist of the right forearm is eloquent of the push delivered. 1940 Open Road for Boys Sept. 20/3 As you follow through, concentrate on straightening your kicking foot and keeping your balance foot on the ground. 1967 Tennis (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 1 The racket is following through. 1993 J. Khan & K. Pratt Learn Squash & Racquetball in Weekend (N.Y. ed.) (front cover) Use your left arm to help keep you steady as you follow through the stroke. 2010 D. Fischer Cool Sports Dad iv. 85 After striking the ball, it is important to follow through completely. 2. intransitive and transitive. To continue (an action or task) to the end; to bring (something) to its conclusion. ΚΠ 1914 Trade Outlook (U.S.) Aug. 114/2 The surgeon who..saves the life of his patient in spite of the dangers of septicemia, nervous shock and loss of blood, ‘follows through’. The lawyer who not only gets his case to the jury by successfully arguing a difficult point of law with the court, but also gets a verdict from the jury, ‘follows through’. 1934 L. H. Watson Play at Contract Bridge xvi. 149 If you are going to play a hand by cross-ruffing, you must follow it through. 1973 A. Garner Red Shift 32 I keep telling you this is a different war, and we follow it through. 2013 T. Burns Our Necessary Shadow iv. 95 The therapist challenges the patient to follow through logically the implications of his or her (the patient's) thinking. 3. intransitive. colloquial. To defecate accidentally, usually immediately after breaking wind.In quot. ?1927-8 probably with pun on sense 1. ΚΠ ?1927–8 J. Fliesler Anecdota Americana 143 ‘At the foorth hole I left a poop.’ ‘That can happen to all of us,’ his friend again said. ‘I ken, I ken, but I followed through,’ said Sandy. 1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1999) 24 Ah fart, and instantly follow through, feeling the wet sludge in ma pants. 2010 Viz May 41/1 BOOAFT, Barked one out and followed through. extracted from followv. < as lemmas
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