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单词 to turn one's back on
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to turn one's back on (also upon)
(c) to turn one's back on (also upon): to change one's position so that one's back faces (a person, a place, etc.); (in extended and figurative use) to depart from, abandon, desert, refuse contact with (a person, place, etc.).
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a1425 in M. L. Arntz Richard Rolle & Gratia Dei (1981) 100 For velany it were grete..if a mane stode before þe pape or þe kyng to say his nedis, if he turne his bak on þos lords þe whils he spekes with þaim of his nedfull thynges to iangill with othire about hym with wayne wordes.
c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 303 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 78 Forton..turnyt hyr bak one hym wrathly.
1537 M. Coverdale tr. M. Luther Expos. Psalm xxii sig. Biiiv Thus speaketh a sure and constant fayth, which turneth her back vpon euery thynge that is temporall & transitory.
1581 Earl of Morton in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1910) VI. 14 I was purposed to have..turned my backe upon Scotland while I had sene further.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 165 To turne thy hated backe Vpon our kingdome. View more context for this quotation
1740 C. Davies Life & Adventures ii. 28 He answered with a Pish only, and turning his back on me, said to a Captain, you see the Fruits of making mean People familiar.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxx. 522 I never turned my back on my leader yet.
1912 E. Sidgwick Herself vii. 99 The story went of him that on a gala opera-night..he had begun by turning his back on the stage.
1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1990) iii. lii. 300 He wears his nose rather too high in the air and is given to turning his back upon persons attempting to be pleasant to him.
2013 C. Johnson Serpent's Tooth 31 The keys are hanging in the holding cell, but I wouldn't turn my back on him for an instant.
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