| 单词 | to go the wrong way to work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go the wrong (also right, etc.) way to work a. A course of action; (sometimes) spec. one proposed or taken as an approach to a particular problem or with a particular objective in mind. Also in to go the wrong (also right, etc.) way to work: to take the wrong (right, etc.) course of action.A figurative extension of sense A. 7a, distinguished from sense A. 7b in that the idea of travelling is absent or greatly weakened; some examples are difficult to place in one sense rather than the other, e.g. quot. 1616. In examples where the sense of an objective is strong, overlapping with sense A. 19a (see, e.g., quot. 1539). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action wayeOE pathOE waya1225 tracea1300 line13.. dancea1352 tenor1398 featc1420 faction1447 rink?a1500 footpath1535 trade1536 vein1549 tract1575 course1582 road1600 country dance1613 track1638 steeragea1641 rhumb1666 tack1675 conduct1706 walk1755 wheel-way1829 a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 17 (MED) He wile hes habben wel imotet, and bi rihte wæiȝe wel i-wæiȝen, and wel imered gold. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 54 Swa þe feont vnder stont anan richt hire wacnesse. & ifond wei towart hire forlorennesse. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 17 I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie, Somwhat of lust, somewhat of lore. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 94v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Wei It is euermore good forto holde þe hie weie. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxviii. sig. Ui I thinke this is a better waye than all to fyght at ones. 1539 in W. A. J. Archbold Somerset Relig. Houses (1892) 75 Albeyt we have vsed as many wayes with her as our poore wittes cowde atteyne, yet in the ende we cowde not..bring her to any conformytie. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxvi Theyr Archebysshop Herman, hathe gon a new waye to worke [L. iniisse novam rationem]. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxii. sig. Dd2v He durst not take open way against them: and as harde it was to take a secrete. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 37 My best way is to creepe vnder his Gaberdine. View more context for this quotation 1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 2 He goeth the wrong way to worke, or to the wood. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 36 (note) in Poems There is so much to be said of this subject, that the best way is to say nothing of it. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §39 The sooner this Way is begun with Children, the easier it will be for them, and their Governors too. 1712 T. Uvedale tr. P. de Commynes Mem. I. v. viii. 446 It was the Opinion of most of 'em that his best way would be to retire to Pont-a-Mousson. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lxii. 278 He told me, that I went the wrong way to work. 1771 A. Young Farmer's Tour E. Eng. III. xxviii. 352 I am confident, they cannot go the right way to work in keeping so much in grass, and growing so few turnips. 1835 B. Gilpin Let. Dec. in Memorials (1874) 251 On many occasions our best way will be to keep silence before men, and secretly thus look up to God. 1922 C. K. Scott-Moncrieff tr. M. Proust Swann's Way I. 277 I believe we are going the wrong way to work when we depreciate anything we offer the Doctor. 1965 Times 9 Oct. 11/5 Cleric and cricket have indeed always been close, but cricket is now going the right way to work to drive an insuperable barrier between the two. 1986 N.Y. Times 13 Nov. d25/2 All are interested in corporate growth, and start-ups or acquisitions are popular ways to go. < as lemmas |
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