Thwart
[θwɔːt] or [θwɔrt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat.
(verb.) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; 'What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge'; 'foil your opponent'.
塞西尔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
(a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
(a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
(prep.) Across; athwart.
(n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
(v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.
(v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
(v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.
(v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.
哈维整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Traverse, cross, intersect, lie across.[2]. Frustrate, hinder, oppose, oppugn, obstruct, contravene, counteract, defeat, disconcert, balk.
乔琳整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Oppose, cross, frustrate, oppugn, defeat,[See ABODE_and_PROP]
整理:朱莉安娜
解釋/意思:
adj. cross: being crosswise.—v.t. to cross: to oppose; to defeat.—n. the bench for rowers placed athwart the boat.—advs. Thwart; Thwar′tedly.—n. Thwar′ter.—adj. Thwar′ting perverse.—advs. Thwar′tingly perversely; Thwart′ly; Thwart′ships across the ship.
海勒姆手打
例句/造句/用法:
- But how if another claw in the shape of me is straining to thwart it? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It is dangerous, explosively dangerous, to thwart them for any length of time. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If he overheard our plans to rescue Dejah Thoris, it will mean civil war, for he will attempt to thwart us, and in that I will not be thwarted. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You mean that she will be killed merely to thwart me? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- For in the last analysis the practical and the reasonable are little idols of clay that thwart our efforts. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I will neither help you nor thwart you; so you can do as you please, but I don't think you'll succeed in your schemes. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Tammany is not a satanic instrument of deception, cleverly devised to thwart the will of the people. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It made her blood run sharp, to be thwarted in even so trifling a matter. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It sent her into a strange, convulsed anger, to be thwarted. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Napoleon, thwarted of a Russian princess, snubbed indeed by Alexander, turned to Austria, and married the arch-duchess Marie Louise. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I am thwarted in every thing material. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- When we are thwarted we begin to ask why. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If he overheard our plans to rescue Dejah Thoris, it will mean civil war, for he will attempt to thwart us, and in that I will not be thwarted. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And so without waiting to be again discovered and thwarted, I ran quickly up the short, steep incline and pushed open the doorway at its end. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The woman of Pablo could feel her rage changing to sorrow and to a feeling of the thwarting of all hope and promise. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Our choice, it seems to me, lies between a blind push and a deliberate leadership, between thwarting movements until they master us, and domesticating them until they are answered. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Half the town would almost take trouble for the sake of thwarting him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They become dangerous to a nation when it denies them, thwarts them and represses them so long that they burst out and become dominant. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I told him in French that all we wanted was to walk over his thwarts and step ashore, and asked him what he went away out there for. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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