单词 | to make good way |
释义 | > as lemmasto make good (also much, little, etc.) way (d) To make progress on a journey or voyage. Often with modifying word, as to make good (also much, little, etc.) way. Cf. to make headway at headway n. 3. extracted from wayn.1int.1 (i) Nautical. Cf. sense A. 14. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] wadeOE agoOE forthganga1000 forthgoOE syeOE kenc1275 to-stepc1275 vaunce1303 forthnima1325 passc1330 throc1330 forthpass1382 to pass forthc1384 to carry forthc1390 proceedc1392 to go alongc1400 to be forthwardc1430 get) groundc1436 to set onc1450 avauntc1460 pretend1481 to make way1490 advance?1507 to get forward1523 promove1570 to rid ground (also space)1572 to rid (the) way1581 progressa1586 to gather grounda1593 to make forth1594 to make on1597 to work up1603 perge1607 to work one's (also its) way1609 to pass on1611 to gain ground1625 to make its way1645 vadea1660 propagate1700 to gain one's way1777 further1789 to pull up1829 on1840 to make (up) ground1921 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress enforcec1340 halec1400 to make way1490 heave1626 forge1769 walk1806 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xxvii. sig. Giiijv Castyng her sight ferder towarde the see, she sawe the saylles wyth the slote of the shippes that made good waye. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. viii. f. 61 Poris bent him self to encourage the mariners to hoyse by saile againe, and to make way with their oares into the sea. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 98 The windes and seas were high, yet we made some way. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. vi. 60 We seeing them prepare to assault vs, left our Oares and made way with our sayle to incounter them. a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1658) 1 The Winde..setled in the West for many dayes, so as we could make little or no way. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 29 Fetch the log-line to try what way shee makes. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 49 We lost our Main top Mast, so that after the Storm was over we could not make any Way. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §155 Our vessels..made better Way in a rough sea. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. vii. 104 He stood up on the choak to ascertain what way she was making through the water. 1882 H. de Windt On Equator 75 The river, however, widened to nearly a mile in breadth..and we made better way. 1915 S. H. Carden in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. i. 405 Battleships preceded by sweepers making way up towards Narrows. 1975 J. Clavell Shōgun (1980) viii. 169 The oars dipped and pulled, but still the ship made no way. 1999 B. Unsworth Losing Nelson (2000) xiv. 162 The first days were calm; the ship made slow way, with light breezes puffing her sails. (ii) gen. ΚΠ a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxlv. f. clxviv/2 He made waye towarde Turney, In so moche yt the Uicount & his company demed them to haue returned to Turney. ?a1518 H. Watson Ualentyne & Orson (1555) xli. sig. Gg.iv They made so muche waye that they passed ouer these, and ouer dyuers wodes. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A8v He making speedy way through spersed ayre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 232 Waite you on him,..While I make way from hence to saue my life. View more context for this quotation 1725 J. Stevens Royal Treasury of Eng. 152 Before the Coach could make much way, that poor Fellow fell into another violent Fit of Laughter. 1743 H. Bracken Traveller's Pocket-farrier 16 This is a very bad Sort of a Breast for a Road-horse, or indeed, for any Horse that is designed to make good-way, as the Sailors term it. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i. in Lamia & Other Poems 160 Like a lithe serpent vast and muscular Making slow way, with head and neck convuls'd. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions i His companion..was making rapid way towards the point. 1912 A. Carter Seamless Robe (new ed.) xxxiv. 299 The turn of a sharp corner brought to view a farm cart making slow way towards them. (iii) figurative and in extended use: to make progress, have success. ΚΠ ?1561 I. D. tr. N. des Gallars True Rep. Doynges Assembly at Poyssy sig. B.ii He entreated also, and desyred Beza, that he would oftener talke and conferre with him, of these matters, that so at last, they myghte make some waye to peace and concorde. a1628 J. Preston Treat. Effectuall Faith i. 29 in Breast-plate of Faith (1630) That which we said before to you, when wee shewed you the causes of the ineffectualnesse of faith, will make good way to this. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. Advt. to Rdr. sig. A2 He must have more of the Confidence of a modern Writer than falls to his Share, to think of making much way with the feeble Effort of his own Reason. 1798 T. Wallace Ess. Manufacturers of Ireland iii. 152 With these advantages against him, the Irish manufacturer has long struggled, and in despite of them has made much way. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Introd. Ep. 56 So great is the difference betwixt reading a thing one's self, making toilsome way through all the difficulties of manuscript, and, as the man says in the play, ‘having the same read to you’. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation iii. ii. 432 Should the system [of life annuities] not make any greater way than it has done, it may not..be worth objecting to. 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xviii. 59 And he made no more way with his wooing. That was stopped, apparently, altogether. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xxxix. 71 There are some signs the view is making way. 1902 Twentieth Cent. Nov. 785 Opera naturally has as yet made little way in the villages. 1999 S. Turow Personal Injuries 83 Rashul..tried to make way with Oretta, who had him by about thirty years. < as lemmas |
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