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单词 to roll along
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to roll along
to roll along
1. intransitive. Of speech or writing: to flow continuously and (often) smoothly.
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1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job ix. 43 Thou dost Prolix Discourses much affect. Thy Words abound, and roll in Floods along.
1721 P. Stafford Poems on Several Occasions 40 A Taste of Homer I from thee would learn,..Would hear his sounding Numbers roll along.
1858 Dublin Univ. Mag. Nov. 539/2 His words roll along in rhetorical billows.
1873 B. De Jongh Rosa Noel II. xiii. 246 Then conversation rolled along insipidly in well-worn grooves, until Lena rose to take her departure.
1910 A. H. Licklider Chapters on Metric Chaucerian Trad. iii. 139 Stanza after stanza of formal verse rolls along in the Chaucerian style.
1948 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 31 May 4/4 With sonorous majesty his prose rolls along.
2000 Atlanta Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 Oct. 3 d The prose rolls along effortlessly, capturing all of Gabriel's neurotic tendencies, his loneliness and unabashed self-criticism.
2. intransitive. To turn up, put in an appearance.
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1928 A. Waugh Last Chukka 82 She entertains whoever there may be that chooses to roll along.
2006 P. Wilkinson Rat Salad (2007) Foreword 8 Albums were..about twenty-five pounds in today's money. You couldn't just roll along to your local store and come out with an armful.
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