carry the message to Garcia

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To perform a requisite task despite obstacles.

    过时 不及物

    1922, David Starr Jordan, The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy, World Book Co., page 148, ... its demand being for men who could face difficult decisions and achieve results, who could "carry the message to Garcia" without delay or dallying.

  2. 2.

    To perform a requisite task without having been informed specifically by what method to do so.

    过时 不及物

    1932, William Carl Ruediger, Teaching Procedures, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 410, ...do it when you are told once. That is to say, carry the Message to Garcia!

    2005, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The Mad Cook of Pymatuning: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 30, "And leaders will emerge. Men who can take the initiative, carry the message to Garcia. That's what I want." [The character in the novel said these words in 1952.]

词源

A paraphrase of a quotation from an essay in 1899, "A Message to Garcia", concerning Calixto García.

来源：wiktionary