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

†c. to shoot the gulf: a phrase used in various figurative applications. (If Defoe's statement be well founded, the phrase must originally have belonged to sense 2.)

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1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 81 Your last you sent me was from Genoa, where you write that..Husbands get their wives with child a hundred miles off... In Venice,..also such things are done by proxy, while the husband is abroad upon the Gallies, there be others that shoot his gulf at home.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 17 Such a mighty and valuable thing also was the passing this Straight [sc. the Straits of Magellan], that Sir Francis Drake's going thro' it, gave birth to that famous old Wives saying, viz. That Sir Francis Drake shot the Gulph..as if there had been but one Gulph in the World.

1752 E. Young Brothers (1757) II. v. i. 281 For me, it matters not; but oh! the prince—When he had shot the gulph of his despair.

b. Nautical. To succeed in sailing through (a dangerous strait, passage, gulf, etc.). Hence to shoot the gulf (fig.): proverbially for any daring enterprise. (See gulf n. 2c.)The figurative phrase appears to have originally had reference to sense 1 of gulf n., but probably was often associated rather with sense 2 or 4.

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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (transitive)] > sail through dangerous water

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > succeed in a daring enterprise

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1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xli. 95 Sir Francis Drake told me, that having shott the Straites, a storme tooke him first at North-west.

1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 319 So neither will I feare to shoot that great Gulfe.

1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 28 We stood out to Sea, that we might shoot the Gulph of Londrin.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 173 Ships sometimes shoot that passage.

1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xi. 99 I never had one Hour's Rest together, since I shot the Gulph, till this.

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. vii. 606 While we were shooting this gulph, our soundings were from thirty to seven fathom.

单词	to shoot the gulf
释义	> as lemmas to shoot the gulf †c. to shoot the gulf: a phrase used in various figurative applications. (If Defoe's statement be well founded, the phrase must originally have belonged to sense 2.) ΚΠ 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 81 Your last you sent me was from Genoa, where you write that..Husbands get their wives with child a hundred miles off... In Venice,..also such things are done by proxy, while the husband is abroad upon the Gallies, there be others that shoot his gulf at home. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 17 Such a mighty and valuable thing also was the passing this Straight [sc. the Straits of Magellan], that Sir Francis Drake's going thro' it, gave birth to that famous old Wives saying, viz. That Sir Francis Drake shot the Gulph..as if there had been but one Gulph in the World. 1752 E. Young Brothers (1757) II. v. i. 281 For me, it matters not; but oh! the prince—When he had shot the gulph of his despair. extracted from gulfn. to shoot the gulf b. Nautical. To succeed in sailing through (a dangerous strait, passage, gulf, etc.). Hence to shoot the gulf (fig.): proverbially for any daring enterprise. (See gulf n. 2c.)The figurative phrase appears to have originally had reference to sense 1 of gulf n., but probably was often associated rather with sense 2 or 4. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (transitive)] > sail through dangerous water shoot1622 run1781 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > succeed in a daring enterprise to shoot the gulf1622 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xli. 95 Sir Francis Drake told me, that having shott the Straites, a storme tooke him first at North-west. 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 319 So neither will I feare to shoot that great Gulfe. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 81 Your last you sent me was from Genoa, where you write that..Husbands get their wives with child a hundred miles off... In Venice,..also such things are done by proxy, while the husband is abroad upon the Gallies, there be others that shoot his gulf at home. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 28 We stood out to Sea, that we might shoot the Gulph of Londrin. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 173 Ships sometimes shoot that passage. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xi. 99 I never had one Hour's Rest together, since I shot the Gulph, till this. 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. vii. 606 While we were shooting this gulph, our soundings were from thirty to seven fathom. extracted from shootv. < as lemmas
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