Swerve
[swɜːv] or [swɝv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of turning aside suddenly.
(verb.) turn sharply; change direction abruptly; 'The car cut to the left at the intersection'; 'The motorbike veered to the right'.
整理:莱斯利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To stray; to wander; to rope.
(v. i.) To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
(v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
(v. i.) To bend; to incline.
(v. i.) To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
(v. t.) To turn aside.
錄入:丽莎
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Deviate, depart, diverge, wander, turn aside, go astray.
手打:莎伦
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Deviate, diverge, stray, wander, divaricate, bend, incline, trend
ANT:Continue, disincline
整理:丽纳
解釋/意思:
v.i. to turn depart from any line duty or custom: to incline: to rove wander.—n. an act of swerving.—adj. Swerve′less that does not swerve.—n. Swerv′er one who swerves.
整理:奥拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Adhere to that preference--never swerve thence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- His censure of those travellers who swerve from the truth. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- He was far more curious, in every swerve of the carriage, and every cry of the postilions, than he had been since he quitted London. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Caroline went home, laid her plans, and took a resolve not to swerve from them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Then there was a great swerve at the bottom, when they swung as it were in a fall to earth, in the diminishing motion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She was really uncomfortable on the point he inquired about, but she only became a little more serious, and her eyes did not swerve. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I have a great mind to go back into Norfolk directly, and put everything at once on such a footing as cannot be afterwards swerved from. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- But even before his body swerved forward on her, a sudden, cunning comprehension was expressed on her face, and in a flash she was out of the door. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- So she swerved down to the steep, tree-hidden bank above the pond, where the alders twisted their roots. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But soon he swerved to the whist-table, rubbing his hands and saying, Come now, let us be serious! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Yes, answered Venn, swerving round in obedience; and, after a pause, I wish you would tell me what this great trouble is. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- And as he did so, he remembered Gudrun's last words to him, and her face lifted up to him as he sat on the swerving horse. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It had hardly been a propitious beginning, but he had chosen his course, and would show no swerving. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Whenever criticism slackens, whenever we sink into acquiescence, the mind swerves aside and clings with the gratitude of the weary to some fixed idea. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
校對:桑福德