| 单词 | by the way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby the way a. In passing along: said of incidents happening on a journey, etc.; chiefly in by the way. ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Genesis xlv. 24 Ne forlæte ge nan þing be wege. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 18378 Amen alleluya songen þei And honoured him euer bi þe wey. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bvv But the sayd ryches holpe them well by the way. 1530 W. Tyndale Expos. (1849) 330 If a woman should find a man-child by the streets. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 250 I was cozen'd by the way, and lost all my money. View more context for this quotation 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 139 They always grow young by the way. by the way b. Hence by the way, by the by (figurative). extracted from byprep.adv. (a) In passing, incidentally, as a chance idea in speech or writing. ΚΠ 1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. A.viii Here haue I an occasion by the way somwhat to saye vnto you. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. v. 377 They had something..in the favour of Friers, though brought in as by the by. 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 210 And by the way you may take notice, that, [etc]. 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 247 All this is by the way. 1832 J. C. Hare Philol. Museum 1 254 This question..merely came in by the by. (b) elliptical omitting words like ‘it may be remarked’. See by n.2, way n.1 and int.1 ΚΠ 1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 41 By the waye, thys place teacheth vs, that, etc. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iv. xv. 396 Here by the way, the Providence of God..is remarkable. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 32. ⁋3 One of the Seniors (whom by the by Mr. President had taken all this Pains to bring over) sat still. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I lvi. 31 Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by. 1882 Knowledge No. 39. 144 Artificial irrigation, which, by-the-way, is now being extensively developed in Australia, etc. by the way b. by the way. extracted from wayn.1int.1 (a) Alongside or near the road; by the roadside. Now chiefly figurative in to fall by the way: to fail or be unable to persist or continue (cf. to fall (also go) by the wayside at wayside n. and adj. Phrases). In early use also †by way. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adverb] > by the roadside by the wayeOE eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. ix. 70 Þa for he wið his mid siex hund monna & funde hiene ænne be wege [L. in itinere] licgan, mid sperum tosticad, healfcucne. OE Blickling Homilies 15 Þa sæt þær sum blind þearfa be ðon wege. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13282 Whaðer heo liue weoren þa heo bi wæie [c1300 Otho weie] læien. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8055 A riche man was þar bi wai Was seke, to him þan turnd þai. a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 91 (MED) For þis skyl been crossys made be þe weye, þat qhanne pasyng folk seen þe cros þey shuldyn thynkyn on hym. 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Aviiiv Than by the waye syde hym chaunced to se A pore manne that craued of hym for charitie Whye (quod thys Marchaunt)..Do ye begge by the waye. 1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye xxxviii. f. 95v Supposing her a common Fylth as by the way doth lye. 1612 W. Shute tr. T. de Fougasses Gen. Hist. Venice i. 321 The Footmen who were hidden by the way in the bushes & shrubs, did in short space with their darts and arrowes make a great slaughter of Horse. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) viii. 194 We were afraid he had either perished, or was lying by the way unable to help himself. 1817 Edinb. Monthly Mag. Sept. 614/1 He attempted to get into the house, that the soldiers might not be discouraged at the sight of his dead body, but fell by the way. 1836 Knickerbocker Mar. 305 The bale bounces off in its passage, either sticking amongst the trees by the way, or rolling headlong into the river. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life ii. 21 I passed flocks of dying sheep: in the hollows by the way their skeletons were here and there to be seen. 1916 J. Baldwin Fifty Famous Rides & Riders 124 Men and boys were waiting at the crossroads, or sitting on the fences by the way, or loitering upon their doorsteps. 1931 J. D. Hicks Populist Revolt ii. 51 The new politicians, recruited to take the places of such of the older leaders as fell by the way. 1993 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 26 July a4 The long columns of Hindus streaming out of East Pakistan into India..with the vultures wheeling overhead and the stray dogs attacking those who fell by the way. 1997 C. C. Robertson Trouble showed Way vii. 271 Among Nairobi marketwomen..the gerontocratic aspects of female leadership have fallen by the way as they have elsewhere in Kenyan society. (b) On, or in the course of, one's journey; on one's way. In early use †by way. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > on or in the course of a journey [phrase] in the (also one's) wayOE by the wayOE by wayOE on (also upon) the (also one's) wayOE in the mean way1569 en route1779 OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) x. 4 Ne bere ge sacc..ne nanne man be wege [L. per viam] ne gretað. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1096 Ac þes folces þe be Hungrie for, fela þusenda þær & be wæge earmlice forforan. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1208 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 141 (MED) Þov hauest selde i-seiȝe Þene Erchebischop of caunterburi wende in swuche manere bi weie. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 115 Þe kyng..wente homwarde, and was i-slawe by þe weie. c1450 (a1400) R. Lavynham Treat. Seven Deadly Sins (Harl. 211) (1956) 13 (MED) It greuyth þe hownd þt a man gooth be þe way þowh þt man do hym noon harm & ellis wolde he not berken vp on hym. 1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Aiiv The rauens fedde him [sc. Elias] by the way. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 197 Lets follow him, and by the way lets recount our dreames. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 450 His Act did not ore-take his bad intent, And must be buried but as an intent That perish'd by the way . View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 204 By the way, in this mornings journey, we did see Weyssenburg, a free but not imperiall City. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 182 Nor is it possible to describe..what strange unaccountable Whimsies came into my Thoughts by the Way. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 139 They always grow young by the way. 1875 J. D. Caton Summer in Norway xxiv. 399 We took a carriage and passed over the Furka pass, stopping by the way to visit the Rhone glacier. 1898 M. Pemberton Phantom Army i. vii It had been in his mind when he rode out of Zaragoza that he would find an early opportunity by the way to question the gipsy. 1907 J. J. Hissey Leisurely Tour in Eng. i. 7 I would prefer to travel with a dog of the right sort to venturing with an untried human companion any day—at least you cannot fall out with a dog by the way. 1922 S. Thurber & A. B. de Mille in W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream (new ed.) App. 99 So at least the Lovers think as they follow on to Athens and happiness, talking by the way of the strange occurrences of the vanished night. (c) figurative with reference to discourse. Cf. Phrases 2b(f). (i) Incidentally, in passing; as an aside or digression. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > [adverb] > in passing by the way?1520 in passing by1598 passant1602 passantly1602 in passage1605 in the bygoing1637 obviously1658 by the by?1710 passingly1836 in passing1849 ?1520 R. Pynson tr. Frère Hayton Lytell Cronycle f. xxxiiiv/2 It is to knowe by the way that Godfray de bullyen & other pylgrims, in that tyme kept as I beleue parfetly the passage generall myght go lightly to the cytie of Constantynople.[No corresponding sentence in the French original.] c1525 J. Rastell Of Gentylnes & Nobylyte sig. B.ivv I holde you bothe mad ye be lyke some woman that I knowe well when they wolde any matter vnto a man tell They wyll tell .xx. talys by the way Nothynge to purpose to the matter that they Dyd furst intend to tell and declare. 1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Cv Landlordes by the wai checked for Rent-raisyng. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 45 Whiche I thought meete to touch briefly by the way. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 136 Shee is pretty, and honest, and gentle, and one that is your friend, I can tell you that by the way . View more context for this quotation 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 100 They are inferred often by the way for illustration sake. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 228 And now by the way I recall the aforesayd Turke. 1731 Art of Drawing & Painting in Water-colours 32 But we must take this by the Way, that in the refining of it, two Ounces will not produce above 40 Grains of good Colour. 1847 H. Goodwin Serm. 1st Ser. viii. 131 I would hint to you by the way, that we are perhaps not fair judges of our own actions. 1900 Junior Photographer June 240/1 A correspondent writes to know where it is to be obtained, even suggesting by the way that we might reprint it in our pages. 1990 C. P. Caswell Stud. Thumos in Early Greek Poetry ii. 5 Erwin Rohde discussed at length the problem of the Homeric concepts of death and the soul in his monumental work Psyche, dealing by the way as it were with the problem of θυμός. (ii) Used parenthetically to introduce a change of topic or a remark incidentally or as an aside. Abbreviated btw (see BTW adv. at B n. Additions). ΚΠ 1560 J. Jewel Serm. sig. E.viiv in J. Jewel & H. Cole True Copies Lett. Firste by the way, before I enter nere into the matter, the praiers that be vsed in the Masse bee commen, aswell to the people, as to the priest. 1562 A. Golding tr. Briefe Treat. Burnynge Bucer & Phagius sig. Bviv But by the way, if these thinges were graunted to be the dalyance of fortune, they had abiden more greuous hurts both of religion and conscience. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. iv. §1 Though, by the way, this may not passe so generally, but that it must admit the exception, which the Rule of Law upon which it is grounded, carries with it. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 46 I mean besides the Chorus, or the Monologues, which by the way, show'd Ben. no enemy to this way of writing. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xix. 97 By the Way, altho' the Weather was not warm, he was without Shoes, Stockings, or Breeches. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 327 This, by the way, was another bit of diplomacy. 1884 H. R. Haggard Dawn II. vi. 75 By the way, talking of letters, there was one came for you this morning in your Cousin Philip's handwriting. 1897 G. B. Shaw Let. 5 Aug. (1965) I. 792 The tiredness, by the way, is maladie du pays. 1902 Boston Evening Transcript 23 July 20/3 The name of the masts, by the way, are in order, fore, main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver, and pusher. 1987 Green Cuisine Feb. 8/3 Frushie, by the way, is a Scots word meaning crumbly. 2011 Private Eye 27 May 9/1 Oh, by the way, I'm opening on Oxford Street so there may be a bit of a spotlight on us. (iii) In predicative use or as complement: not directly pertinent to the matter; said in passing or as an aside or digression. ΚΠ 1564 T. Dorman Proufe Certeyne Articles in Relig. f. 95v This is yow saie but by the waie, before yow entre into the matter. 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 46 Also, a word by the way, touching the Mediterranean Sea in possession of the Romanes. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 5 But this by the way, let us now proceed. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 286 However, I allow'd Liberty of Conscience throughout my Dominions: But this is by the Way. 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 247/1 However, all this is by the way; for, though my statement of Kant's system will be very different..yet [etc.] 1894 Pick-me-up 3 Nov. 78/1 But this by the way. 1904 F. C. Burnand Rec. & Reminisc. II. 285 But this by the way. 1983 J. Melville Sayonara, Sweet Amaryllis x. 52 ‘We've met before.’ Kimura shrugged. ‘Very probable... However, that's by the way.’ 1997 J. Ryan Dismantling Mr Doyle xi. 150 Still, she proceeded to get out of the car as though what Eve had said was just by-the-way. (d) Without giving one's full attention; (later) spec. as a secondary or subordinate task. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [phrase] > by chance by perchance1495 at a venture1517 per accidens1528 at hazard (also hazards)a1533 at random1543 by occasion1562 at range1568 by the way1572 by (also at) (a) peradventurea1586 hit or miss1609 at the by1611 hob-nob1660 hit and miss1897 1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles ii. 91 He is not content to be hearde onely by the way, as of men that are otherwyse occupied [L. modo tanquam ab aliud agentibus audiri], but diligently, and wyll haue it layde vp in their myndes. 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 113/2 Entreoýr, to ouerheare, to heare vnawares, or by the way. a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1711) III. 265 It is not to be done by the way, but with all our might. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 91 Maritime skill is..not a thing to be cultivated by the way [ἐκ παρέργου] or at chance times. (e) Not directly from the original or authoritative source of information. rare.Quot. 1985 is a modern retelling of Macbeth. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [adverb] sidelya1425 through the sides of?1560 collaterally1610 by the waya1616 sidewise1654 secretly1656 slantinglya1677 ambagiously1678 circuitously1797 sideways1876 in-circle1883 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 129 Macb. How say'st thou that Macduff denies his person At our great bidding. La. Did you send to him Sir? Macb. I heare it by the way: But I will send. View more context for this quotation 1985 L. Garfield Shakespeare's Stories 282 ‘Did you send to him Sir?’ ‘I heard it by the way,’ he said; ‘but I will send.’ (f) attributive (with hyphens). Incidental, casual; made or done in passing or en route. Originally and chiefly with reference to a remark or comment (cf. Phrases 2b(c)(ii)). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > random or haphazard uncertain1303 casualc1460 haphazard1576 roving1577 hazardous1585 chanceful1594 firmless1605 random1655 temerarious1660 aleatory1693 contingent1703 unlawed1789 by the way1846 chancy1860 fluky1880 hitty-missy1885 perchance1891 happenchance1905 happenstance1905 willy-nilly1933 1846 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Oct. 281/1 But a word or two, in a by-the-way manner, upon the peculiarities of orchideous plants, will render our sketch of them more intelligible. 1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls ii. 29 At parting she..said..in an off-hand, by-the-way fashion,—‘Ruth, why won't you come over to-night?’ 1881 F. Hueffer Wagner 32 The introduction in a by-the-way manner of the two great religious principles appears not particularly happy. 1881 G. Saintsbury Dryden i. 21 The ordinary prose style of the day..indulged..in every détour and involution of second thoughts and by-the-way qualifications. 1946 Queen's Med. Mag. 39 17 In this short article are recounted a few by-the-way incidents of a very strenuous eighteen months. 1971 L. Casson Ships & Seamanship Anc. World xi. 260 The evidence, for the most part by-the-way remarks in literature.., is vague or inconclusive or downright contradictory. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 23/4 Gus makes a few by-the-way visits to favoured people, some of whom have appeared before. < as lemmas |
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