单词 | to go right |
释义 | > as lemmasto go right b. In due or proper order, satisfactorily. Chiefly in to go right. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adverb] bedenea1300 stightly1340 ordinatelyc1384 right?a1400 seriouslyc1405 beplotmelec1440 seriatly?a1475 seriatim1495 ensuingly?1518 consequently1558 evenly1579 successantly1594 orderly1599 connectedly1823 sequently1905 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 11768 Roþers, helmes, right to stande. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalms (1963) xix. ii. 39 Day unto day, it doth display,..And night to night, succeeding right. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iv. 33 When once our grace we haue forgot, Nothing goes right . View more context for this quotation 1659 R. Brathwait Panthalia 79 These Ladies..must hold him excused, for neglect of those Caresses and Civile adues; which, if all things had gone right, had been, doubtlessly, return'd. 1739–40 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature 132 A peasant can give no better reason for the stopping of any clock or watch than to say, that commonly it does not go right. 1780 C. Reeve Old Eng. Baron (ed. 2) 119 Put your trust in God, and obey your Lord, and you will find every thing go right as it used to do. 1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 114 I did suppose all was going on right betwixt them, till I learnt the truth through Mrs. Jane. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxv. 80 Everything is going on right there, and you have no occasion to be anxious about them. 1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island x. 102 ‘I hope things will go right,’ said Priscilla soberly. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited vii. 177 So you see things never looked like going right. There was a hoodoo on us from the start. 1991 Forbes (Nexis) 9 Dec. 83 Ay de mi! Little has since gone right for Mexicana and its new owners. < as lemmas |
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