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单词 to pave the way
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to pave the way
3. transitive. to pave the way and variants: to bring about a necessary preliminary circumstance for some future event, etc.; to facilitate or lead on to a result or object in view. Also with to.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > facilitate progress
to make waya1200
to prepare the way1526
to clear the coast1530
to pave the wayc1585
to oil the wheels1645
c1585 T. Cartwright in R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 86 The way will bee paued and plained for mutuall entercourse.
1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings 511 Brought in of purpose to paue the way for your new found fansies.
1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies ii. 147 [They] paved the way for invocation of Saints in heaven, and evocation of men out of Hell.
1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1896) iv. xxvi. 99 More able..to have paved a Way to future Felicity.
1747 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) III. 490 This may pave the way for its general use in all fevers.
1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. vi. 120 That Precedent has paved the Way to leave the Whole of that Fund at the Mercy of the Crown.
1801 Port Folio 24 Oct. 338/2 It was intended by the author to pave his way to fortune and favour.
1813 Ld. Byron Let. 28 Aug. (1974) III. 101 If it has had any success, that also will prove that the public are orientalizing, and pave the path for you.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 250 Addressing audiences to pave the way to the great work they ultimately accomplished.
1943 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 7 The air has invariably been used to pave the way for the Army.
1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 July a23 There are..complaints that Thatcher's ‘doctrinaire’ monetarist policies are paving the path to political repudiation.
1994 Sci. News 26 Nov. 356/3 Such research could also pave the way for germline gene therapy.
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