单词 | by way |
释义 | > as lemmasby way (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. by way (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. < as lemmas |
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