go on ( going, went, gone, goes )

• 1. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you go on doing something, or go on with an activity, you continue to do it. 继续

  例：

  Unemployment is likely to go on rising this year.

  失业人数今年很可能继续上升。

  例：

  I'm all right here. Go on with your work.

  我在这儿很好。继续你的工作吧。

• 2. 

  PHRASAL VERB If something is going on, it is happening. 发生

  例：

  While this conversation was going on, I was listening with earnest attention.

  该谈话进行时，我在聚精会神地听。

• 3. 

  PHRASAL VERB If a process or institution goes on, it continues to happen or exist. 继续下去; 继续存在

  例：

  The population failed to understand the necessity for the war to go on.

  人们没能理解那场战争继续下去的必要性。

• 4. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you say that a period of time goes on, you mean that it passes. (时间) 流逝

  例：

  Renewable energy will become progressively more important as time goes on.

  随着时间的推移，可再生能源将逐渐变得更重要。

• 5. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you go on to do something, you do it after you have done something else. 继而 (做另一件事)

  例：

  Alliss retired from golf in 1969 and went on to become a successful broadcaster.

  埃利斯1969年结束了专业高尔夫运动生涯，继而成为了一名成功的播音员。

• 6. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you go on to a place, you go to it from the place that you have reached. 继而去 (某地)

  例：

  He goes on to New Orleans tomorrow.

  他明天继而去新奥尔良。

• 7. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you go on, you continue saying something or talking about something. 继续说; 继续谈

  例：

  Meer cleared his throat several times before he went on.

  米尔清了几次嗓子，然后继续说下去。

• 8. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you go on about something, you continue talking about the same thing, often in an annoying way. 唠唠叨叨地谈 [非正式]

  例：

  He's always going on about his son and daughter.

  他总是没完没了地谈论他的儿子和女儿。

• 9. 

  PHRASAL VERB You say "Go on" to someone to persuade or encourage them to do something. 继续吧 (用以劝说或鼓励) [非正式] [only imper]

  例：

  Go on, it's fun.

  继续吧,很好玩。

• 10. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you talk about the information you have to go on, you mean the information you have available to base an opinion or judgment on. 以…为依据

  例：

  But you have to go on the facts.

  但是，你得以事实为依据。

• 11. 

  PHRASAL VERB If an electrical device goes on, it begins operating. (电气设备) 开始运转

  例：

  A light went on at seven every evening.

  一盏灯每晚七点钟亮。