英语词汇“to shift one's ground”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. The space upon which a person, etc., takes his stand; the position maintained or defended by one; esp. in phrases to hold one's ground, to keep one's ground, to maintain one's ground, to stand one's ground, to shift one's ground; now usually figurative (sometimes with suggestion of sense 5a).

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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > where one takes up a position, residence, etc. > position maintained by a person

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1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Chaucer Soc.) ix. 176 He fightinge to maintaine Fregilia towne, they bearinge in to make his grown their grown.

1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 239 The Church thereby keeping as it were her ground.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 1 A friend, as willing to shift his ground as I, gave me an Overture which I accepted.

1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 394 Drawn in two Lines adverse they wheel'd around, And in the middle Meadow took their Ground.

1707 London Gaz. No. 4353/1 The Deserters..stood their Ground, and..fir'd on 'em.

1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 278 We can hardly keep our Ground against the Current.

1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 234 The commanding officer turns on his own ground.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod i. i. 4 The sports of the field still maintained their ground.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. 287 She met me on my own ground.

1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek v. 113 Here the humblest slave might stand erect on the ground of his humanity.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 34 The government was strong enough to hold its ground.

1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iii. 132 It is not easy to see how it [Individuality] can stand its ground.

1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 197 I, like him taking the ground of future expediency, stoutly maintain the contrary position.

单词	to shift one's ground
释义	> as lemmas to shift one's ground b. The space upon which a person, etc., takes his stand; the position maintained or defended by one; esp. in phrases to hold one's ground, to keep one's ground, to maintain one's ground, to stand one's ground, to shift one's ground; now usually figurative (sometimes with suggestion of sense 5a). ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > where one takes up a position, residence, etc. > position maintained by a person ground1616 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Chaucer Soc.) ix. 176 He fightinge to maintaine Fregilia towne, they bearinge in to make his grown their grown. 1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 239 The Church thereby keeping as it were her ground. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 1 A friend, as willing to shift his ground as I, gave me an Overture which I accepted. 1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 394 Drawn in two Lines adverse they wheel'd around, And in the middle Meadow took their Ground. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4353/1 The Deserters..stood their Ground, and..fir'd on 'em. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 278 We can hardly keep our Ground against the Current. 1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 234 The commanding officer turns on his own ground. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod i. i. 4 The sports of the field still maintained their ground. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. 287 She met me on my own ground. 1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek v. 113 Here the humblest slave might stand erect on the ground of his humanity. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 34 The government was strong enough to hold its ground. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iii. 132 It is not easy to see how it [Individuality] can stand its ground. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 197 I, like him taking the ground of future expediency, stoutly maintain the contrary position. extracted from groundn. < as lemmas
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