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go to great lengths (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 goes to great lengths,現在分詞 going to great lengths,過去式 went to great lengths,過去分詞 gone to great lengths)

  1. (俗語) 拼命竭力
    • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, 出自 Railway Magazine,第 283 頁:
      The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.
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    • 2008, José Rodrigues does Santos, Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus (trans. from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin), William Morrow (2008), ISBN 9780061173189, page 262:
      [] They said good-bye on the eleventh, and the Portuguese noblemen saw him off, going to great lengths to show him respect."
    • 2009, Diego Gambetta, Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate, Princeton University Press, 出版於 2009, →ISBN272:
      Most scholars writing on the mafia were going to great lengths to demonstrate that it did not exist—and the mobsters wanted to keep their brotherhood secret.
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    • 2013, Chad R. Torgerson, Waking Up Catholic: A Guide to Catholic Beliefs for Converts, Reverts, and Anyone Becoming Catholic, Assisi Media, 出版於 2013, →ISBN62:
      As a father, I would go to great lengths to protect my children.
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