| 单词 | to keep on at a score |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep on at a score b. Phrases. to go off (set off, start) at score, of a horse, to make a sudden dash at full speed; figurative of a person, to break out suddenly into impetuous speech or action. So to go off full score, to keep on at a score. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > suddenly flash1608 to go off (set off, start) at score1807 the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > begin to speak volubly to go off (set off, start) at score1807 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with impetuous speed leapOE swengec1000 swingOE throwc1275 hurla1300 dashc1300 fling1300 stetec1330 lance?a1400 slinga1400 whirlc1400 wringc1400 dingc1450 whither1487 chop1555 to cast (also lay) one's heels in one's neck1599 clap1603 precipitate1622 teara1627 toss1727 to keep on at a score1807 whing1882 whirlwind1894 to go off full score1900 careen1923 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > gallop > make short or sudden dash career1594 to go off (set off, start) at score1807 to keep on at a score1807 rocket1862 to go off full score1900 1807 E. Goulburn Epwell Hunt 117 Resolv'd at all Hazards to follow Bob Canning; To accomplish which End he kept on at a Score. 1809 R. Cumberland John de Lancaster II. 95 John and his steed were in the same humour for a start at score. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 123 Madge had no sooner received the catch-word, than she vindicated Ratcliffe's sagacity by setting off at score with the song: ‘O sleep ye sound, Sir James, she said’. 1833 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 309 Talking of a paragraph lately which stated that all the Church dignitaries meant to resign.., he went off at score on the sad state we should be reduced to by such a resignation. 1834 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 35 1016 Start at score and make play we must, if we were now to resume the contest. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 49 Lest the black-eyed should go off at score and turn sarcastic. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iii. 64 His horse, Blesbok, went off at score, and followed the spoor as accurately as any dog. 1867 M. Arnold On Study Celtic Lit. 71 After the mediæval touch of the visit to the buttery in the land of the Trinity, he goes off at score: ‘I have been instructed in the whole system of the universe [etc.]’. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xxxiv The slackened rein..encouraged the gray to take a final kick and fling, and then set off at score up the slope. 1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam iii. 99 The bull picked himself up and went off full score. < as lemmas |
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