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单词 to go west
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to go west

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P1. to go west.
a. Of the sun: to move towards the western horizon; to set, go down.
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c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 13365 (MED) For hit was nyght, the sonne goth west.
c1500 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Trin. Cambr.) (1879) l. 61 Assone As the son gynneth go west.
1636 W. Sampson Virtus post Funera Vivit 3 Thou art like the Sunne when he is going West.
a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1821) IV. 198 I can no more turn aright from sin, than I can turn the sun in the firmament that is going west.
1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 693/2 He never rested till the sun was going west.
1862 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands III. lxxvi. 249 Long before the sun went west, the young King of Lochlann was levelled, bound, and fettered.
1922 H. Bindloss Northwest! xvi. 144 Since noon until the sun went west and shadow crept across the mountain, he and the Indian had crouched behind a shelf.
2006 W. H. Henderson Augusta Locke 263 I see the rocks set in the sky, and maybe the sun going west, and the trees getting dark.
b.
(a) Originally Scottish (figurative) To die.The sense became widespread during the First World War (1914–18). The relationship between quot. a1532 and the later evidence has not been firmly established. [Apparently ultimately with reference to the west as the place of the setting sun and perhaps also to its identification (esp. in Celtic traditions) as the abode of the dead. The uses at Phrases 1b(b) probably show a further development of this sense. There is probably no foundation to the suggestion that either sense results from folk-etymological alteration of go whist in the following quotation (compare whist int.1; apparently here intended to convey sudden disappearance):
1899 Overland Monthly Sept. 288/2 Fifteen men of a whole ship's list..Dead and bedamned—and the rest gone whist!
]
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
a1532 in G. S. Stevenson Pieces from Makculloch & Gray MSS (1918) vi. 42 Women and mony wilsome wy as wynd or wattir ar gane west.
1833 Johnstone's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 89/1 The Irish, and the Scottish Highlanders, always describe persons lately dead as having gone west.
1914 Times 31 Dec. 4/2 Does any one know the origin or meaning of the soldiers' curious phrase for death, ‘Going West’?
1942 J. Masefield Land Workers 9 The oldest men still daily wore The smocks of centuries before, Each fairly needled on the chest By loving hands long since gone west.
2008 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 17 June a9 Jack has ‘gone west’. He died peacefully in the loving arms of his son.
(b) To be lost or destroyed; to disappear, vanish; to end in failure, come to grief. [Compare note at Phrases 1b(a).]
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear
formeltc893
wendOE
witea1000
aworthc1000
fleec1200
fleetc1200
withdraw1297
vanish1303
voidc1374
unkithea1400
startc1405
disappearc1425
disparishc1425
to fall awayc1443
evanish?a1475
vade1495
sinka1500
vade1530
fly1535
fadea1538
melt?1567
dispear1600
relinquish1601
foist1603
dispersea1616
to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616
dissipate1626
retire1647
evaporate1713
merge1802
illude1820
to foam off1826
dislimn1833
furl1844
to step out1844
evanesce1855
shade1880
wisp1883
to go to the winds1884
walk1898
to do a disappearing act1913
to go west1916
to do (or take) a fade1949
to phase out1970
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 167 The glare of a burning house shone red in the sky over the roof tops. ‘Somebody's 'appy 'ome gone west’, remarked one man.
1919 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 368/2 Their parcels..went persistently ‘west’.
1925 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Death of Millionaire vi. 57 Wilson sighed. ‘There's valuable evidence gone west’, he said. ‘It may be hard to pick up the trail now.’
1976 R. Lehmann Sea-grape Tree (1982) 42 I had a dinky one [sc. a handkerchief], but it went west earlier this evening. Soaked, dear.
1996 Observer 31 Mar. 1/3 An estimated £200 million went west in an unprecedented gambling spree.
c. go west, young man: used as an encouragement to seek fortune in the American West; also in extended use.Attributed to Horace Greeley, who, according to Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, gave the latter this advice in September 1851 (see quot. 1891).
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1838 H. Greeley in New-Yorker 25 Aug. 361/1 If any young man is about to commence the world, with little in his circumstances to prepossess him in favor of one section or another, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West: there your capacities are sure to be appreciated, and your industry and energy rewarded.
1856 Wisconsin Farmer May 209/1 It reminds me of the advice that Mr. Secretary Corwin gave to a young man that was applying for a clerkship. He said, ‘Young man, go West’.]
1870 ‘O. C. Kerr’ in Punchinello 20 Aug. 323/1 Go West, young man! Buy a good, stout farming outfit..and then go out to the far West upon Government-land.
1879 W. Saunders Through Light Cont. 35Go West, young man,’ was Horace Greeley's advice, and West I went accordingly.
1891 J. B. Grinnell Men & Events of Forty Years vi. 86 [Horace Greeley said:] ‘Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.’
1917 Munsey's Mag. June 90 Take up that challenge since the world began—Go West, young man!
1961 Times 6 Dec. 4/6 Go West, young man, is the traditional exhortation to aspiring professionals facing a quiet English winter.
1992 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Dec. e1 Go west, young man. But stop before you get to California.
P2. by west: see by prep. 9c.
P3. up West: in or into the West End of London.
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1874 R. Jefferies Scarlet Shawl iv. 64 He did not know what to do when he got there [sc. London]. He had a large place of his own up West, but it was just as empty as the other in the country.
1905 W. E. Cameron Towns & Types iii. 20 You can get a jolly little supper ‘Up West’ for a guinea, including a bottle of champagne, Chateau de Lower Belgravia.
1959 Times 30 Nov. 14/1 Crowds from the suburbs as well of natives of the West End's fringes..head ‘up West’ in search of theatres, cinemas, and shops open late every Thursday.
2003 J. Kerr in J. Kerr & A. Gibson London from Punk to Blair 19/1 The gangs of patriotic Teddy boys who have come up west from East Ham or Homerton to rid the streets of perverts and misfits.
extracted from westadv.adj.n.1prep.
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