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单词 to swerve from, shun, refuse one's steps
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to swerve from, shun, refuse one's steps
a. to walk in (or †tread) a person's steps, to follow him as he walks; usually figurative, follow his example. †Also in phrases of opposite sense, as to swerve from, shun, refuse one's steps. The phr. to follow, (sue, pursue) a person's steps is perhaps to be referred in part to sense 5.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (intransitive)] > follow an example
borrow?c1225
to walk in (or tread) a person's stepsa1240
to take example from (also by, at, of)c1405
to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle1546
patrizate1623
patrizizea1642
to follow suit1747
to take a leaf out of a person's book1809
pattern1820
a1240 Ureisun in Old Eng. Hom. I. 187 He mot foleȝi þine steapes þurh sar and þurh sorewe.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. iv. 12 To hem that suen his steppis [1526 Tyndale walke in the steppes] of the feith of our fadir Abraham.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 431 The doȝhters of the seide Romilda not foloynge the stappes of theire moder, but lovynge chastite.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 343 Whiche folowenge the stappes of an oxe made a place, namenge hit Boetia.
a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 17 in Poems (1981) 132 Thair fadirs steppis iustly to persewe.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xix. sig. q.iiiiv This Matild clerely refusyng The steppes of Sara..And other good matrons.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 96 In thys processe we wyl take nature for our exampul & as nere as we can folow hyr steppys.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxixv Not to swarue from the steppes of the confession at Auspurge.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 18 A good token is it..of good ground, where the Crowes and the Pyes folowe in great number the Plowe, scraping in the steppes of the Plowman.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 100 To..tread the steppes of Gods sonne.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xvii. iv Ledd by thy word, the rav'ners stepps I shun.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 117 S. Philip..was fastened to the Crosse, and stoned to death, treading the steps both of his Master, and of Stephen.
1695 E. Hickeringill Lay-clergy in Wks. (1716) I. 322 Arch-bishop Laud did but Lackey it after those, and followed their steps.
1714 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements (rev. ed.) Pref. 2 Whose Steps I was obliged closely to follow.
1752 S. Foote Taste Ded. p. v In the following Sheets her Steps have been trod with an indeviating Simplicity.
1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit i. 1 The means of inducing the philosophical part of the world to tread back their steps.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lix. 72 The jackall..is said to follow the steps, and devour the leavings, of the lion.
1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 243 We must tread back our steps.
1881 Illingworth Serm. xi. 149 Thousands upon thousands..have taken courage from their example to follow in their steps.
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