go the distance

动词 v.

中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.

To participate in a boxing match for its maximum number of rounds.

— "In a way it's like the quality of muscle and heart that enables some prizefighters to go the distance—twenty, thirty, forty rounds, say," Dick concurred.
To have the endurance to see a difficult, sustained challenge to its natural end without faltering. broadly,idiomatic

— "Do you notice how every one is trying to avoid the subject of the war? . . . I am sure they cannot keep it up." "They won't go the distance," Julian whispered.

goes the distance present,singular,third-person going the distance participle,present went the distance past gone the distance participle,past