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to and fro

/too-uhn-froh/US // ˈtu ənˈfroʊ //

来往,来回走动,往返,来回

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : back-and-forth: to-and-fro motion.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural to-and-fros.

    • : a continuous or regular movement backward and forward; an alternating movement, flux, flow, etc.: the to-and-fro of the surf.

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Examples

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  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

  • Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

  • That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

  • Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

  • She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.