英语词汇“to the right about”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. to the right about. Now rare.

a. Originally and chiefly Military. To the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction.

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the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > turn to face opposite direction

to the right about1635

to right about1778

right-about face1832

1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline lviii. 151 Wheele your Battaile to the right about.

1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple i. ii. 11 To the right about as you were, march Colonel.

1717 tr. A. M. P. Du Noyer Lett. from Lady at Paris II. xxiv. 43 He perceiv'd his Plaister was falling off, he was forced to wheel to the Right about to stick it faster.

1766 Hist. Acct. Exped. against Ohio Indians 57 The rear goes to the right about.

1775 J. Jekyll Let. 12 Apr. (1894) i. 12 After [dessert]..all rise, turn to the rightabout and..then return to the drawing-room.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 31 When General Officers..pass in the rear of a Guard, the Officer is..not to face his Guard to the right-about.

1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 376 Their fox took the opportunity to swing to the rightabout.

1906 J. London White Fang iv. vi. 268 The dog-musher laid his hand on Beauty Smith's shoulder and faced him to the right about.

1907 M. B. Corwin et al. tr. A. Fournier Napoleon the First xiii. 373 The troop of horse, now quite out of breath, turned to the right-about.

1936 W. S. Churchill Marlborough III. xxi. 429 The Maison du Roi in the fields by Chobon hamlet can be seen wheeling to the rightabout to meet this new appalling peril.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts.

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1711 J. Oldmixon Hist. Addresses II. 49 For ' twou'd be a hard Case, if when after all the Counties in England have fac'd to the Right, and to the Left, and to the Right about, and to the Left about, the Head of the Herefordshire Man shou'd be..always steady for fear of disobliging his Curls.

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 338 I did not wait long for an opportunity of letting the whole of them ken my mind, and that whenever I chose, I could make them wheel to the right about.

1895 T. Hardy in Harper's Mag. Sept. 600/1 After converting me to your views..to find you suddenly turn to the right-about like this..confounding all you have formerly said through sentiment merely!

1921 G. Stratton-Porter Her Father's Daughter iii. 46 The world goes just so far in one direction, and then it whirls to the right-about and goes equally as far in the opposite direction.

1949 G. Heyer Arabella xiii. 237 If that is so, why, then, has she sent poor Charles to the rightabout?

2002 K. Michaels Maggie needs Alibi ii. 23 You were right to send him to the rightabout, and none too soon, either. Man's a rotter.

单词	to the right about
释义	> as lemmas to the right about 1. to the right about. Now rare. a. Originally and chiefly Military. To the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > turn to face opposite direction to the right about1635 to right about1778 right-about face1832 1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline lviii. 151 Wheele your Battaile to the right about. 1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple i. ii. 11 To the right about as you were, march Colonel. 1717 tr. A. M. P. Du Noyer Lett. from Lady at Paris II. xxiv. 43 He perceiv'd his Plaister was falling off, he was forced to wheel to the Right about to stick it faster. 1766 Hist. Acct. Exped. against Ohio Indians 57 The rear goes to the right about. 1775 J. Jekyll Let. 12 Apr. (1894) i. 12 After [dessert]..all rise, turn to the rightabout and..then return to the drawing-room. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 31 When General Officers..pass in the rear of a Guard, the Officer is..not to face his Guard to the right-about. 1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 376 Their fox took the opportunity to swing to the rightabout. 1906 J. London White Fang iv. vi. 268 The dog-musher laid his hand on Beauty Smith's shoulder and faced him to the right about. 1907 M. B. Corwin et al. tr. A. Fournier Napoleon the First xiii. 373 The troop of horse, now quite out of breath, turned to the right-about. 1936 W. S. Churchill Marlborough III. xxi. 429 The Maison du Roi in the fields by Chobon hamlet can be seen wheeling to the rightabout to meet this new appalling peril. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1711 J. Oldmixon Hist. Addresses II. 49 For ' twou'd be a hard Case, if when after all the Counties in England have fac'd to the Right, and to the Left, and to the Right about, and to the Left about, the Head of the Herefordshire Man shou'd be..always steady for fear of disobliging his Curls. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 338 I did not wait long for an opportunity of letting the whole of them ken my mind, and that whenever I chose, I could make them wheel to the right about. 1895 T. Hardy in Harper's Mag. Sept. 600/1 After converting me to your views..to find you suddenly turn to the right-about like this..confounding all you have formerly said through sentiment merely! 1921 G. Stratton-Porter Her Father's Daughter iii. 46 The world goes just so far in one direction, and then it whirls to the right-about and goes equally as far in the opposite direction. 1949 G. Heyer Arabella xiii. 237 If that is so, why, then, has she sent poor Charles to the rightabout? 2002 K. Michaels Maggie needs Alibi ii. 23 You were right to send him to the rightabout, and none too soon, either. Man's a rotter. extracted from right aboutadv.n.adj. < as lemmas
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