英语词汇“to meet trouble halfway”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. transitive. Chiefly figurative. to meet halfway: †to forestall, anticipate (obsolete); to respond in kind to the friendly advances of; to make concessions to (a person) in response to or in expectation of equal concessions; to come to a compromise with. to meet trouble halfway: to anticipate distress.

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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall

before-takea1382

preventc1425

devance1485

prevenea1500

lurch1530

to take before the bounda1556

to be aforehand with1570

to be beforehand with1574

to meet halfwaya1586

preoccupate1588

forestall1589

fore-run1591

surprise1591

antedate1595

foreprise1597

preoccupy1607

preoccupy1638

pre-act1655

anticipatea1682

obviate1712

to head off1841

beat1847

to beat out1893

pre-empt1957

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > compromise > [verb (intransitive)]

to give and take1519

compoundc1547

to meet halfway1638

compromise1656

palliate1672

moderate1713

to split the difference1713

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > become friendly > respond to friendly advances

to meet halfway1706

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxiv. f. 229 Artaxia..euen met them halfe way in excusing her brothers murder.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. B3^v Presently he remembred himselfe, and had like to haue fallen into his memento againe, but that I met him halfe waies, and askt his Lordship [etc.].

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 321 Let not the Iudge meet the Cause halfe Way; Nor giue Occasion to the Partie to say; His Counsell or Proofes were not heard.

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 112 I like this popular Divinitie, which meets us halfe way, and stoops a little, that we may not strayne our selves too much.

1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer iii. i. 24 We lov'd two Ladies; they met us half way.

1799 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 66 There is not a thing that the Admiral could propose that I would not meet him half-way.

1823 C. Lamb Valentine's Day in Elia 130 The world meets nobody half-way.

1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 5 Sept. 12/2 The Polish peasantry..will meet the Czar halfway in whatever he does for their good.

1896 J. C. Hutcheson Crown & Anchor xvi. 162 I can't see the use of anticipating the worst and trying to meet troubles half-way.

1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxi. 350 But I don't see the use of meeting trouble halfway, do you, Marilla?

1923 Glasgow Herald 14 Aug. 7 If France does not meet us half way, enabling the Allied front to realign, there will be a separate reply to Germany.

1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy (1959) 70 It's all bound to be ups and downs,..roundabouts and swings; ‘It's no good moaning’;..‘don't meet trouble 'alfway’.

1989 Constr. News 22 June 5/2 Contractors are making efforts to bring British producers into the market but many were reluctant to meet the contractor half-way in developing the right products to satisfy the final customers.

单词	to meet trouble halfway
释义	> as lemmas to meet trouble halfway d. transitive. Chiefly figurative. to meet halfway: †to forestall, anticipate (obsolete); to respond in kind to the friendly advances of; to make concessions to (a person) in response to or in expectation of equal concessions; to come to a compromise with. to meet trouble halfway: to anticipate distress. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall before-takea1382 preventc1425 devance1485 prevenea1500 lurch1530 to take before the bounda1556 to be aforehand with1570 to be beforehand with1574 to meet halfwaya1586 preoccupate1588 forestall1589 fore-run1591 surprise1591 antedate1595 foreprise1597 preoccupy1607 preoccupy1638 pre-act1655 anticipatea1682 obviate1712 to head off1841 beat1847 to beat out1893 pre-empt1957 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > compromise > [verb (intransitive)] to give and take1519 compoundc1547 to meet halfway1638 compromise1656 palliate1672 moderate1713 to split the difference1713 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > become friendly > respond to friendly advances to meet halfway1706 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxiv. f. 229 Artaxia..euen met them halfe way in excusing her brothers murder. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. B3^v Presently he remembred himselfe, and had like to haue fallen into his memento againe, but that I met him halfe waies, and askt his Lordship [etc.]. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 321 Let not the Iudge meet the Cause halfe Way; Nor giue Occasion to the Partie to say; His Counsell or Proofes were not heard. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 112 I like this popular Divinitie, which meets us halfe way, and stoops a little, that we may not strayne our selves too much. 1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer iii. i. 24 We lov'd two Ladies; they met us half way. 1799 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 66 There is not a thing that the Admiral could propose that I would not meet him half-way. 1823 C. Lamb Valentine's Day in Elia 130 The world meets nobody half-way. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 5 Sept. 12/2 The Polish peasantry..will meet the Czar halfway in whatever he does for their good. 1896 J. C. Hutcheson Crown & Anchor xvi. 162 I can't see the use of anticipating the worst and trying to meet troubles half-way. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxi. 350 But I don't see the use of meeting trouble halfway, do you, Marilla? 1923 Glasgow Herald 14 Aug. 7 If France does not meet us half way, enabling the Allied front to realign, there will be a separate reply to Germany. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy (1959) 70 It's all bound to be ups and downs,..roundabouts and swings; ‘It's no good moaning’;..‘don't meet trouble 'alfway’. 1989 Constr. News 22 June 5/2 Contractors are making efforts to bring British producers into the market but many were reluctant to meet the contractor half-way in developing the right products to satisfy the final customers. extracted from meetv. < as lemmas
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