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单词 to hold away
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to hold away
to hold away intransitive. To keep away, stay away; to keep at a distance from something or someone. Also figurative. See also hadaway int.Chiefly Scottish until late 19th cent.
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1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iv. i. sig. G Gentlew. Here's some few Angels for your Lordship... Gond. Keepe off. Gentlew. A small gratuit for your kindnesse. Gond. Hold away.
?1701 3 Excellent New Songs (single sheet) Had awa', bide awa', Had awa' frae me, Donald; I'll neither kiss nor hae a ring, Nae tartan plaids for me, Donald.
1785 R. Forbes tr. Ovid in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. 24 They had awa' frae you; they ken Ye're but an useless folp.
1867 Argosy July 82Haud awa' frae that basket, ye wuddyfous’..he cried, darting towards the hamper he had left in the entry.
1899 K. Chopin Awakening x. 68 Of late he had sometimes held away from her for an entire day, redoubling his devotion upon the next..as though to make up for hours that had been lost.
1919 Harper's Mag. Dec. 38/1 Why, she had held away from the things one most wants from life just to keep from knowing what she was knowing now.
1944 N.Y. Times 26 Jan. 5/3 Of all the twenty-one American republics Argentina alone has held away from the Allied camp.
2001 J. M. Vesely Shadows on Land 343 They often went for long walks together, or fished the riverbanks for big catfish that held away from the current, suspended in the deep undercuts or among the submerged limbs of deadfallen trees.
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