English Dictionary

go the distance

verb

(boxing) To participate in a boxing match for its maximum number of rounds. / (idiomatic, by extension) To have the endurance to see a difficult, sustained challenge to its natural end without faltering.

I will go the distance to achieve my goals.

意味（1）

(boxing) 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.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) To have the endurance to see a difficult, sustained challenge to its natural end without faltering.

"Do you notice how every one is trying to avoid the subject of the war? . . . I am sure they cannot keep it up."

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.