| 单词 | to step aside |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto step aside to step aside 1. intransitive. To go a little distance away from one's place or from the path one is following; to withdraw or retire for a short distance; to take one or more steps to one's right or left. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > step to one side drawc1400 to step aside1530 sidestep1860 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 734/2 I steppe a syde out of the way, je me desmarche. Let them lay to my charge what they lyste, I wyll never steppe a syde for it. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxvjv He steppeth a side into the countrey by. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 153 See where he comes, so please you step aside . View more context for this quotation 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. lxxx. 211 He stept aside the furious blow to shunne. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Timoleon in Plutarch Lives II. 215 Upon which Timoleon stepped aside, and stood weeping. 1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 35 He will leave his rifle on the rest and step aside, in order that the instructor may take his place. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily > secretly or abscond to run awayOE elope1596 to step aside1620 abscond1652 shirk1681 decamp1751 levant1797 absconce1823 skip1865 skin1871 to shoot the crow1887 sneak1896 to go through1933 to take a run-out powder1933 1620 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 210 Sir John Samms is stept aside and gone for Bohemia,..being..ready to sink under the burthen of his debts. 1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 595 The cook was sent to Newgate, but the lord Griffin himself, hearing of it, is stept aside. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 429 They did not know whether he might not have stept aside for debt. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress overleapc1400 to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500 digress1530 traverse1530 decline?1543 square1567 rovea1575 deviate1638 to step aside1653 swerve1658 to sally out1660 transgress1662 to run off1687 canceleera1697 cantona1734 excurse1748 to travel out of the record1770 divagate1852 desult1872 sidetrack1893 1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 125 Herodote made his History somewhat the more delightful, by stepping aside to tel a tale or two now and then. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 190 I request the indulgence of the reader..while I step aside to give a few directions to the inhabitants of the Highland districts. 4. intransitive. To deviate from the right path, err, go astray. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > stray or go astray dwelec900 miswendOE to fare astray (misliche, amiss)c1175 to step astray, awry, beside1297 weyec1315 outrayc1330 strayc1330 waivea1375 forvay1390 outwandera1400 stragglea1425 waverc1485 wander?1507 swerve1543 wift?a1560 random1561 estray1572 egar1584 to go a-strayinga1586 to step aside1787 err1819 moider1839 maverick1910 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 146 To step aside is human. < as lemmas |
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