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单词 to open the way
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to open the (also a) way
a. transitive. To clear of obstruction or hindrance; to make (a road, etc.) free for passage; (Chess) to clear (a file) of pawns. Frequently to open the (also a) way and figurative.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 163 (MED) Þe way was opened forto take wreche of al olde wreþþe.
c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 205 The vntrue effusions of the blood of mankynde, which han broken the bonde of iustice and open [a1500 Rawl. made opyn] the weye of abhominacion.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxx It opened the waye to rebellion, sedition, and to ciuile warres.
1573 Life Frith in Wks. (1829) 73 Wherewithal he might have opened an easy way unto honour and dignity.
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 99 The Turkish Emperor..thirsting to open a way into Moscouie.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 809 Thou op'nst Wisdoms way, And giv'st access. View more context for this quotation
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Sap, in Fortification, is digging deep under the Earth,..to open a way to come under cover to the Passage of the Moat.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer ii. 43 They [sc. wasps]..are enabled..to open themselves a passage from these recesses into the sunshine.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxiii. 188 Not without hope that some way of escape might yet be opened to him.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xiv. 169 The field had already been ‘opened’; that is to say, a lane a few feet wide had been hand-cut through the wheat..for the first passage of the horses and machine.
1915 J. Du Mont tr. E. Lasker Chess Strategy 224 White decides to sacrifice a Knight in order to open the files in the centre for his Rooks.
1930 Flight 25 July 837/1 You invented the hydroaeroplane..and thus opened the way for trans-Atlantic flight.
1991 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 24 Feb. i. 18/6 To open the way for advancing allied troops, columns of U.S. armor punched into Iraqi territory behind vehicles equipped with plows.
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