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单词 follow
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followverb

uk/ˈfɒl.əʊ/us/ˈfɑː.loʊ/

follow verb (GO)

A2 [ I or T ] to move behind someone or something and go where he, she, or it goes:

A dog followed us home.
She followed me into the kitchen.
He had the feeling he was being followed (= someone was going after him to catch him or see where he was going).
I could feel them following me with their eyes (= watching my movements closely).
Do your own thing, don't just follow the crowd (= do what everyone else does).

[ T ] to go in the same direction as a road, path, etc.:

Follow the road for two miles, then turn left.
follow suit

C2 to do the same thing as someone else:

When one airline reduces its prices, the rest soon follow suit.

More examples

  • He made no answer but walked on, gesturing for me to follow.
  • If you lead in the jeep, we'll follow behind on the horses.
  • The dogs are specially trained to follow the trail left by the fox.
  • The path follows the river closely, occasionally deviating round a clump of trees.
  • In the silence that followed, a lone voice piped up from the back of the room.

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Pursuing

  • be hot on sb's track/trail idiom
  • be on sb's tail idiom
  • bear
  • bear down on sb/sth
  • bring
  • bring up the rear idiom
  • convoy
  • hound
  • in hot pursuit idiom
  • on the scent idiom
  • pester
  • pursue
  • pursuer
  • run
  • scent
  • stalk
  • stick
  • tag
  • tailgate
  • track

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Occurring and happening
Travelling
Repeating an action

follow verb (HAPPEN)

B1 [ I or T ] to happen or come after something:

We were not prepared for the events that followed (= happened next).
The book was delivered yesterday with a note saying the bill for it would follow in a day or two.
The meal consisted of spinach salad, followed by roast chicken (= with this as the next part).
She published a book of poems and followed it (up) with (= next produced) a novel.
as follows

B2 said to introduce a list of things:

The winners are as follows - Woods, Smith, and Cassidy.

More examples

  • The women's 200 metre event will be followed by the men's 100 metres.
  • I'd like a steak and fries with chocolate mousse to follow.
  • The initial earthquake was followed by a series of aftershocks.
  • This announcement follows months of inaction and delay.
  • The war was followed by a long period of peace and prosperity.

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Occurring and happening

  • afoot
  • assail
  • asynchronous
  • attendant
  • be at work idiom
  • become
  • come round
  • come up
  • event
  • go ahead
  • go down
  • go hand in hand with sth idiom
  • go together
  • go with sth
  • hand
  • happen
  • intervene
  • materialize
  • turn up
  • underway

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Quoting & making references

follow verb (OBEY)

B1 [ T ] to obey or to act as ordered by someone:

Follow the instructions on the back of the packet carefully.
I decided to follow her advice and go to bed early.
Muslims follow the teachings of the Koran.

More examples

  • I always follow the instructions on medicine bottles faithfully.
  • He follows the orders of his boss without question.
  • He followed the famous American dictum, 'Don't get mad, get even'.
  • I followed the instructions to the letter and it still went wrong.
  • Baking a cake isn't difficult - it's just a matter of following the recipe.

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Obeying & breaking the law

  • abide
  • adhere
  • afoul
  • aid
  • bend the law/rules idiom
  • breach
  • breaker
  • clean
  • clean up your act idiom
  • commit
  • compliant
  • conform
  • contravene
  • disobey
  • hold
  • law-abiding
  • perpetrate
  • respect
  • venal
  • violate

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follow verb (HAVE INTEREST IN)

C1 [ T ] to have a great interest in something or watch something closely:

He follows most sports avidly.
They followed her academic progress closely.

More examples

  • Which team do you follow?
  • She followed the trial with interest.
  • They were able to follow the day's events on their portable radio.
  • Analysts have been following the events with interest.
  • Have you been following recent political events?

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Excited, interested and enthusiastic

  • aflutter
  • agog
  • all of a flutter idiom
  • amped
  • animated
  • be as high as a kite idiom
  • delirious
  • exhilarated
  • fanatical
  • fascinated
  • fasten
  • fasten on/upon sth
  • flushed
  • flutter
  • overheated
  • overzealous
  • passionate
  • pop-eyed
  • potty
  • sniff

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follow verb (BE RESULT)

C2 [ not continuous ] to happen as a result, or to be a likely result:

[ + that ] Just because I agreed last time, it doesn't necessarily follow that I will again.

More examples

  • If we posit that wage rises cause inflation, it follows that we should try to minimize them.
  • How can they claim to reduce taxes and increase spending? It doesn't follow.
  • Just because the last forecast was correct, it doesn't necessarily follow that the next one will be.
  • Just because one of the suspects has been eliminated from their enquiries, it doesn't follow that the remaining suspect is guilty.
  • Because ladybirds eat greenfly, it follows that a decrease in the numbers of ladybirds will lead to a rise in the population of greenfly.

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Occurring and happening

  • afoot
  • assail
  • asynchronous
  • attendant
  • be at work idiom
  • become
  • come round
  • come up
  • event
  • go ahead
  • go down
  • go hand in hand with sth idiom
  • go together
  • go with sth
  • hand
  • happen
  • intervene
  • materialize
  • turn up
  • underway

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follow verb (UNDERSTAND)

B1 [ I or T ] to understand something as it is being said or done:

I'm sorry, I don't quite follow (you).
His lecture was complicated and difficult to follow.

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Understanding and comprehending

  • apprehend
  • apprehension
  • at your fingertips idiom
  • attune
  • bear in on/upon
  • common
  • fathom
  • fingertip
  • hit
  • make sth/sb of sth/sb
  • make sth/sb out
  • mind
  • penetrate
  • picture
  • read between the lines idiom
  • reading
  • realization
  • take sth in
  • twig
  • understand

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follow verb (READ)

[ T ] to read the notes or words of a piece of music or writing at the same time as they are being played or said

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Writing, reading & studying music

  • compose
  • composition
  • harmonize
  • music
  • music-making
  • musical
  • musicology
  • orchestrate
  • pentatonic scale
  • recompose
  • setting
  • sheet music
  • sight-read
  • sol-fa
  • songwriter
  • tone-deaf
  • transpose

follow verb (SOCIAL MEDIA)

[ T ] If you follow a particular person on a social media website (= a website where people can publish their thoughts, photographs, information about themselves etc.), you choose to see everything that person posts (= publishes) on the website.

Idiom(s)

follow your nose
follow in sb's footsteps

Phrasal verb(s)

follow on
follow (sth) through
follow through
follow sth up

followverb

uk/ˈfɒləʊ/us

[ I or T ] to happen or come after something:

More mergers are likely to follow.
October's increase followed a 1.6% rise in output in September.
The bonds recovered after some initial selling following news of the proposed merger.
Government macro-economic policy encouraged a consumer boom followed by a deep recession.

[ T ] to obey instructions or to do something according to a plan or someone's advice:

The shelves are easy to assemble if you follow the instructions carefully.
follow orders/advice By following our advice, clients should save at least £770 a year.
follow a policy/a procedure/guidelines At the enquiry into the crash, the airline said that normal procedure had been followed.

[ T ] to watch something closely to see how it develops:

He works for a group of Wall Street analysts who follow internet stocks closely.

[ I or T ] to do the same thing as someone:

They were the first to introduce online ordering, but other companies have been quick to follow.
follow sb's example/lead When the company announces its price increases, many of its competitors are expected to follow its lead.

[ I ] also follow on to be sent or paid at a later date:

Your bank card will arrive first, and the PIN number will follow, in a separate envelope.
as follows

used to introduce a list of things:

Our main aims are as follows: 1. efficiency 2. value for money 3. quality.
follow a career, occupation, trade, etc.

to do a particular job:

The company has an open door policy to mature entrants who have followed alternative career paths.
follow suit

to do the same as someone else:

We expect that fund managers will take a lead by coming out in favour of one of the banks, at which point undecided investors will follow suit.

Phrasal verb(s)

follow through (on/with sth)
follow sth up
follow sth up with sth
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