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单词 to get going
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to get going
g. to get going.
(a) To begin; to start acting vigorously, energetically, or determinedly; to start talking fluently or volubly; to get into full swing; to ‘get a move on’; to depart. See also to get cracking at crack v. 22b.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically
to go to it1490
busklea1535
settle1576
to lay on1587
to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658
to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678
yark1721
to get going1822
to pitch in1835
to roll up one's sleeves1838
square1849
to clap on1850
to wire in (also away)1864
to dig in1884
hunker1903
tie into1904
to get cracking1937
to get stuck in1938
to get weaving1942
to get it on1954
1822 Kaleidoscope 29 Jan. 236/3 ‘It's not almighty hot.’—‘I think as how you'll feel it better when we get going,’ replied the driver.
1897 O. W. Holmes Pollock-Holmes Lett. (1942) I. 77 He is really fine when he gets going on the Church of England.
1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum Epil. 391 David is not only living, but appears almost no older than when we first knew him, and still just as likely to ‘git goin'’ on occasion.
1930 L. Charteris Enter Saint i. 57 I'm going to prove that nothing on earth can stop me when I get going.
1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest i. 8 If this task is as important as you men say..we must get going.
1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 177 I think we better get going soon, said Karen.
2006 A. M. Foley Having my Say iv. 19 We had a job getting started, but once we got going, we could sing pretty good.
(b) To cause (something) to operate; to cause (a person) to go; to make (someone) excited, angry, talkative, aroused, etc.
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1835 [see sense 31b].
1844 Rover 3 383/1 It would be a great use to everybody when he got it [sc. the telegraph] going.
1852 W. Stillman Misc. Compositions Poetry & Prose 9 I stuck to it till I got it [sc. a clock] going.
1887 2nd Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. Rhode Island 223 If you get me going I am afraid you can't stop me.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xxviii. 326 She kidded him along, and got him going.
1932 ‘A. Bridge’ Peking Picnic iv. 38 She's rather a character, you know, when you get her going.
1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest iii. 189 To get the Hanford plant going.
1959 R. Galton & A. Simpson Hancock's Half-hour (1987) 165 She's a lovely girl. It's those black stockings that gets me going.
1997 W. Self Great Apes (1998) ii. 20 He could get her going, crank up the galvanic heart of her so that she came and came and came.
2005 M. H. Smith Delicious vi. 58 Certain stories in Hawaiian mythology were funny, but the myth of Kamapua'a, the Hog God, was the one that got the kids going.
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