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单词 go on
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go on

phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone

(HAPPEN)

B1 to happen:

I'm sure we never hear about a lot of what goes on in government.
This war has been going on for years.

More examples

  • He likes to know what's going on.
  • Hello, hello. What's going on here then?
  • The meeting was going on in the room next door.
  • The matches were going on simultaneously.
  • It's hard to know what goes on behind my back.

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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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(CONTINUE)

B1 to continue:

Please go on with what you're doing and don't let us interrupt you.
[ + -ing verb ] We really can't go on living like this - we'll have to find a bigger house.
If you go on (= continue behaving) like this, you won't have any friends left at all.

to move to the next thing or stage:

[ + to infinitive ] She admitted her company's responsibility for the disaster and went on to explain how compensation would be paid to the victims.
What proportion of people who are HIV-positive go on to develop (= later develop) AIDS?

More examples

  • The award ceremony goes on for another hour.
  • Go on for another 50 metres until you come to the traffic lights.
  • We can't go on until we've fixed the puncture.
  • The second chapter went on to describe his early career.
  • If you can't answer a question, go on to the next one.

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Continue & last

  • (it's) business as usual idiom
  • bash on
  • carry (sth) on
  • cease
  • cont
  • contd
  • drag
  • keep at sth
  • keep on doing sth
  • keep on trucking idiom
  • keep sb at it idiom
  • leg
  • nine
  • push
  • run on
  • run over (sth)
  • see sth out
  • segue
  • soldier on
  • string

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(OPERATE)

to start operating:

The spotlights go on automatically when an intruder is detected in the garden.
When does the heating go on?

More examples

  • I didn't hear the central heating go on.
  • The lights go on automatically at six o'clock.
  • I flicked the switch but it didn't go on.
  • The street lights go on at about three o'clock in winter.
  • I don't think the heating went on this morning.

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Engineering - mechanical

  • -engined
  • artificer
  • automatic
  • automative
  • hydraulic
  • idle
  • internal combustion engine
  • mechanic
  • mechanical
  • mechanically
  • octane
  • octane number
  • outboard motor
  • strip
  • tick
  • tick over
  • torque
  • tune
  • vane
  • wheelbase

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(TALK AGAIN)

B2 to start talking again after a pause:

She paused to have a sip of coffee and then went on with her account of the accident.
[ + speech ] "What I want more than anything else," he went on, "is a house in the country with a large garden for the children to play in."

informal something that you say to encourage someone to say or do something:

Go on, what happened next?

More examples

  • He took a sip of coffee and went on with his story.
  • After stopping to clear his throat the politician went on with his speech.
  • Go on, tell me more.

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Starting again

  • back
  • back to square one idiom
  • continue
  • get back to sth
  • go
  • go back to sth
  • pick
  • pick sth up
  • pick up the thread(s) idiom
  • pick sth up
  • reborn
  • recreation
  • renew
  • reopen
  • restart
  • resumption
  • slate
  • start
  • start over
  • with the slate wiped clean idiom

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Encouraging and urging on

(TALK A LOT)

C2 to talk in an annoying way about something for a long time:

He went on and on until I finally interrupted him and told him I had to go.
I just wish he'd stop going on about how brilliant his daughter is." "Yes, he does go on (a bit), doesn't he?"
I wish you'd stop going on at me (= criticizing me repeatedly) about my haircut.

More examples

  • I heard you the first time, you don't need to go on about it.
  • He tends to go on a bit in his lectures.
  • The after-dinner speaker went on a bit.
  • He's always going on about how much money he earns.

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Ways of talking

  • -mouthed
  • babel
  • blab
  • blather
  • croon
  • declamatory
  • drone
  • drone on
  • expressive
  • hold the floor idiom
  • loose
  • lyrical
  • meanderings
  • rabbit
  • sink to a whisper idiom
  • tattle
  • telegrammatic
  • throw
  • waffle
  • yap

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(PLEASE DO)

used when encouraging someone to do something:

Go on, have another drink.
"I don't really feel like seeing a film tonight." "Oh go on. We haven't been to the cinema for ages."

More examples

  • Go on, take a day off work. You deserve it.
  • Please can we get a kitten? Oh go on.
  • Go on, have another glass of wine.
  • Wear the low-cut blouse with your pink shorts - go on, I dare you!
  • Have another slice of cake - go on, be a devil!

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Urging & persuading

  • argumentation
  • blag
  • brainwash
  • bring
  • browbeat
  • butter
  • get sth out of sb
  • incite
  • persuasion
  • pitch
  • preach
  • press-gang
  • prevail on/upon sb
  • proselytize
  • rush sb into (doing) sth
  • sucker sb into sth
  • talk sb down
  • talk sb out of sth
  • twist
  • work on sb

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(AGREE)

informal something that you say in order to agree to do or allow something that you did not want to do or to allow before:

"Are you sure you don't want another slice of cake?" "Oh go on then, but just a small one."

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Words & phrases expressing agreement & acceptance

  • accha
  • achha
  • amen
  • amen to that idiom
  • as you wish/like idiom
  • beggar
  • couldn't agree/disagree more idiom
  • course
  • I know idiom
  • I wouldn't say no idiom
  • mind
  • no problemo
  • of course idiom
  • okey-doke
  • right
  • take
  • ten-four
  • there you go idiom 1
  • very
  • you said it! idiom

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(TIME)

to continue or pass:

Tomorrow will start cold but it should get warmer as the day goes on.
As the evening went on, it became clear that we should never have agreed to see each other again.

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Spending time & time passing

  • all the time in the world idiom
  • Anno Domini
  • course
  • elapse
  • employ
  • fall
  • fall away
  • misspend
  • pass
  • passage
  • passing
  • roll
  • run
  • slip away
  • spread sth over sth
  • the sands of time are running out idiom
  • tick
  • tick away/by
  • time and tide wait for no man idiom
  • while sth away

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(NOT BELIEVE)

go on! mainly UK old-fashioned

used when you do not believe someone

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Linguistics: interjections

  • (well) what do you know! idiom
  • aiyo
  • alas
  • aw shucks
  • awesomesauce
  • bam
  • bless
  • boo
  • charming
  • good show idiom
  • goodness
  • heck
  • hot dog! idiom
  • talk
  • use your loaf idiom
  • voilà
  • wake up! idiom
  • watch out
  • what an idea! idiom
  • yes

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