Awry
[ə'raɪ]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) away from the correct or expected course; 'something has gone awry in our plans'; 'something went badly amiss in the preparations'.
編輯:勒罗伊--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv. & a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.
(adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.
編輯:沃伦
同義詞及近義詞：
ad. [1]. Obliquely, asquint, askance.[2]. Perversely, wrong.
a. Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.
編輯:梅布尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Crooked, aslant, askew, atwist, bent, carved, distorted, twisted, wrong
ANT:Right, straight, true, direct
古斯塔夫校對
解釋/意思:
adj. twisted to one side: distorted crooked: wrong: perverse.—adv. unevenly: perversely: erroneously.—To look awry to look askance at anything; To walk awry to go wrong.
整理:玛丽斯
例句/造句/用法:
- You see me now with my back like a camel and my ribs all awry, but there was a time when Corporal Henry Wood was the smartest man in the 117th foot. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Here was Alexander in many ways gifted above any man of his time, and he was vain, suspicious, and passionate, with a mind set awry by his mother. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My principles were never trained, Jane: they may have grown a little awry for want of attention. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
整理:玛丽斯