at the ready 的定义
- Available for immediate use, as in Umbrellas at the ready, we were prepared to brave the storm. This idiom was originally a military term in which the ready denoted the position of a firearm prepared to be raised and aimed or fired. [First half of 1800s]
at the ready 近义词
等同于 ready
at the ready 的近义词 40 个
- accessible
- apt
- handy
- qualified
- ripe
- adjusted
- anticipating
- arranged
- completed
- covered
- equipped
- fit
- near
- organized
- primed
- set
- waiting
- wired
- all set
- all systems go
- at beck and call
- at fingertips
- at hand
- champing at bit
- close to hand
- convenient
- equal to
- expectant
- fixed for
- in line
- in order
- in place
- in position
- in readiness
- in the saddle
- on call
- on hand
- on tap
- on the brink
- open to
at the ready 的反义词 15 个
更多at the ready例句
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- The U.S. military just unveiled a new effort to get Iraqis ready to battle ISIS.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- It secures in many cases, at least, a ready compliance with a large part of the discipline enforced.
- Later on, I believe, a child is wont to have his favourite colour, and to be ready to defend it against the preferences of others.
- The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
- Let your orders for preparation go round tonight, so that your knaves may be ready to set out betimes to-morrow.