| 单词 | to go separate ways |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go (one's) separate (also different, etc.) ways (d) to go (one's) separate (also different, etc.) ways. extracted from wayn.1int.1 (i) To leave in a different direction from someone with whom one has been associating, travelling, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] to-dealeOE shedc1000 asunderOE to-twemea1225 sunderc1225 twin?c1225 atwin?a1400 to make separationc1450 separe1490 twain15.. sever1545 unsever1609 spread1611 separate1638 disclaim1644 to come apart1764 to go separate ways1774 twine1886 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. iv. i. 311 They go separate ways, each to provide for itself, during the rigours of winter; and, at the approach of spring, each seeks for a new associate. 1789 R. Broome Lett. Simpkin the Second (new ed.) ix. 54 The Triumvirate now may go separate ways—Joe Surface again to the writing of Plays; Charles Fox on the Continent finish his ramble..; And Burke..May harangue to the Lords, when the Trial commences. 1875 L. Larcom Idyl of Work 51 They went their separate ways. The pastor's friend Asked, musingly, ‘Where have I seen that face?’ 1893 Canad. Mag. Oct. 686/1 The neighbors went their various ways, to recount, with such additions as gossips love, their afternoon's experience. 1947 ‘P. Wentworth’ Wicked Uncle xxxviii. 257 Tomorrow they would all have gone their separate ways. 1992 P. Collins Let. to Louise 161 He kept me company to Knightsbridge and then we went our separate ways. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 27 July (Week in Review) 11/4 They look at each other shyly and touch tenderly..and—tant pis—go their separate ways. (ii) To end a romantic, professional, or other relationship. ΚΠ 1875 Georgia Weekly Tel. 14 Sept. How proud we went our separate ways: And spake no word and made no moan. 1894 All Year Round 26 May 496/1 I have gone over every step of our married life..till the day when we broke those bonds so lightly and went our separate ways. 1919 Scribner's Mag. May 530/1 It often seems to the jaded consciousness of courts dealing with discordant domestic relations that Jack and Jill might be better allowed to go their separate ways except when there are children. 1938 Times 1 Jan. 10/4 Much was certainly lost when the original directorate decided to go separate ways, as from the separation both parties seem to have suffered. 1957 N. B. Morrison Other Traveller i. 29 His parents had agreed to go their different ways. 1997 Jet 30 June 38/1 Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter..and his longtime girlfriend..are going their separate ways. < as lemmas |
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