| 单词 | fetch |
| 释义 | fetch I. transitive verb 1. a. < escaped while the guard was out to fetch their supper > < fetch me a drink > < had to leave her alone while he fetched the doctor from town > broadly < inside the station as I waited for my friends to fetch me — D.L.Cohn > : bring < the souvenirs he fetched back from Europe > < come and fetch along your family > : take < had enough money to fetch him from New York to Philadelphia > b. now dialect c. < fetched his arguments from afar > < fetch analogies from nature > 2. a. < fetch the discussion to a close > < one shot fetched it down > : draw forth : elicit < the sound of the sob fetched tears to the eyes — Arnold Bennett > < fetch a laugh from the audience > < a scamper of feet fetched me out of my berth and up on deck — A.T.Quiller-Couch > b. < the pigs fetched a good price at the market > : bring in : realize < risk capital fetches a higher interest rate > < professional skill … fetches very much smaller pay in Germany — J.A.Hobson > c. < two of the men … were fetched by the notion of striking it rich — Newsweek > < he doesn't fetch the girls like William — D.H.Lawrence > d. chiefly dialect e. < his argument fetched her round > 3. a. < fetch him a clip on the chin > — not often in formal use b. now chiefly dialect < I meant to go … but time was short and I didn't fetch it — O.W.Holmes †1935 > specifically < sat fetching her breath in dry sobs — Ngaio Marsh > c. < fetch a sneeze > : utter < fetch a loud whoop > : heave < fetch a sigh > d. < got in another shot and fetched him — Bret Harte > — not often in formal use 4. a. < fetch the harbor before the storm breaks > b. < fetched home after his long ride > 5. < dad fetch it > intransitive verb 1. < the German housewife has to spend a lot of time fetching and carrying — Marieluise Capitaine > specifically 2. < working through the parts beyond Jago Row, he fetched round into Honey Lane — Arthur Morrison > 3. of a boat < fetch about > : hold a course < fetch to windward > 4. chiefly Scotland < she fetches and fights for breath — Robert Burns > 5. dialect < give him another glass — then he'll fetch up — Thomas Hardy > • - fetch about - fetch a compass - fetch a pump - fetch off II. 1. < in the trial for two sheep dogs each must keep its own side till the fetch is finished > 2. < the mere fetch of a debater at a loss for arguments > : trick < one of the cunningest fetches of Satan that he … dodging behind this neighbor or that acquaintance compels us to wound him through them — J.R.Lowell > 3. dialect England 4. < wind coming from the … deserts with a clear fetch of a thousand miles — Joseph Furphy > specifically III. 1. a. b. < the muddy field before them which was the exact fetch of the muddy field behind — Strand Magazine > 2. < a harrowing graveyard with … a fetch — Saturday Review > IV. variant of fitch |
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