English Dictionary

go the distance

動詞

広義 慣用表現

(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.

日本語の意味

（ボクシング）試合の全ラウンド、つまり定められた全ラウンド戦い抜くこと / （慣用句として）困難な挑戦をあきらめずにやり遂げる、最後まで耐え抜くこと

Despite taking heavy punishment, the veteran boxer managed to go the distance and lost only by split decision.

激しいダメージを受けながらも、ベテランのボクサーは予定された全ラウンドを戦い抜き、判定でわずかに敗れた。

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. 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 ）