单词 | trail-breaking |
释义 | > as lemmastrail-breaking trail-breaking n. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > pioneering or breaking new ground pioneership1834 path-breaking1886 pace-setting1893 trail-breaking1912 1912 L. J. Vance Destroying Angel xviii. 232 ‘Must I make talk, then?’ she demanded. ‘If we must, I suppose— you'll have to show the way. My mind's hardly equal to trail-breaking to-day.’ 1965 T. A. Sebeok in Language XLI. 80 In this trailbreaking paper, he [sc. Trubetzkoy] reduced the supposed multiplicity of vowel patterns to a small number of symmetrical models. 1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xiii. 171 Even in descent it took him an hour, and without his trail-breaking from above Martin and Mike Thompson would have had an exhausting time forcing the route from below. < as lemmas |
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