单词 | to get carried away |
释义 | > as lemmasto get carried away 2. transitive. To influence or affect (a person, the mind) strongly, esp. so as to cause foolish, irrational, or uncharacteristic behaviour. Frequently (now chiefly) in passive, often with get in to get carried away.In figurative context in quot. ?1529, with allusion to the irresistible force of a storm. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] rineOE afaite?c1225 stir?c1225 movea1325 amovec1380 inspire1390 commove1393 informa1398 toucha1400 embracec1430 rore1481 alter1529 to carry away?1529 raise1533 removea1540 heavec1540 affect?1548 carry1570 inmove1583 infecta1586 worka1616 unthaw1699 emove1835 emotionize1855 emotion1875 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > cause nervous excitement or agitate [verb (transitive)] to carry away?1529 agitate1591 fermentate1599 tumultuate1616 alarm1620 overwork1645 uncalm1650 flutter1664 pother1692 to set afloata1713 fluctuate1788 fuss1816 tumult1819 to break up1825 rile1857 to steam up1860 to shake up1884 ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. v. sig. d.ivv Whiche thynge she shall easly do, if she abyde in her owne power, nor suffer her selfe to be caried away with her owne fantasies, as it were with stormes of wether. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Pref. sig. **ivv Their reason is caried away and ouermaistered by the course of the world. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 72 I did not thinke to have gone so farre; it is the subject that hath carried me away. 1709 R. Steele Tatler III. No. 151. 157 Woman-kind..are carried away with every Thing that is showy. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xvii. 275 His tribe, he said, had been carried away by the general enthusiasm for liberty, and he could not keep them back. 1956 N. Coward Diary 23 Dec. (2000) 340 She talks wisely and informatively up to the point where she gets carried away. 2001 Times 14 Sept. (Terror in Amer. Suppl.) 20/2 A fortnight ago we were all carried away by sporting joy and a certain 5–1 scoreline. < as lemmas |
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