Traverse
['trævəs;trə'vɜːs] or [trə'vɝs]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit.
(verb.) travel across or pass over; 'The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day'.
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解釋/意思:
(a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
(adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.
(a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.
(a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
(a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
(a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
(a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
(a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
(a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
(a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
(a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
(a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
(a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
(a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
(a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
(a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
(a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
(a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
(a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
(a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
(v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
(v. i.) To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
(v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
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同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Cross.[2]. Thwart, obstruct.[3]. Pass, travel over, wander over.[4]. (Law.) Deny.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Cross, thwart, obstruct, survey, explore
ANT:Pass, omit, sanction, permit, overlook, disregard, elude, avoid, pretermit
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解釋/意思:
adj. turned or lying across: denoting a method of cross-sailing.—n. anything laid or built across: something that crosses or obstructs: a turn: (law) a plea containing a denial of some fact alleged by an opponent: a work for protection from the fire of an enemy: a gallery from one side of a large building to another.—v.t. to cross: to pass over: to survey: to plane across the grain of the wood: (law) to deny an opponent's allegation.—v.i. (fencing) to use the motions of opposition or counteraction: to direct a gun to the right or left of its position.—adv. athwart crosswise—(obs.) Trav′ers.—adj. Trav′ersable that may be traversed or denied.—ns. Trav′erser; Trav′erse-tā′ble a table or platform for shifting carriages to other rails; Trav′ersing-plat′form a platform to support a gun and carriage which can easily be turned round.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I cannot but in some sense admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following considerations. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the Arabs who traverse the deserts. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Railroads traverse it in every direction, north, south, east, and weSt. The mines are worked. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice, and inhabit caves and dens, where no man would venture to intrude? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Can you not draw me a rough map of the country we must traverse, Dejah Thoris? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- I could not rest under the imputation that I visited Florence and did not traverse its weary miles of picture galleries. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Our troops gained first one traverse and then another, and by 10 o'clock at night the place was carried. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I was on my downward way then, but the dreary, dreary road I have traversed since! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In this state they traversed without change, except of horses and pace, all the mire-deep leagues that lay between them and the capital. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs, and thus traversed the snows with inconceivable speed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped, and stared at the roof and round at the walls. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The distance that they had to go was very short, but he was at his building work again before the carriage had half traversed it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This model showed itself capable of traveling at high speed on a single rail, rounding sharp curves and even traversing with ease a wire cable hung in the air. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But in no respect is it a strict traversing of past stages. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Sound travels very quickly through the air, traversing ten hundred and ninety feet in a second, but it reaches forty-seven hundred feet away under water in the same time. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Whether he had really been to any one, or whether he had been all that time traversing the streets, was never known. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- She was soon ascending Blooms-End valley and traversing the undulations on the side of the hill. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He was traversing the scorching sands of a mighty desert, barefoot and alone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Granite abounds in crystallized earthy materials, and these occur for the most part in veins traversing the mass of the rock. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The rebels made a desperate effort to hold the fort, and had to be driven from these traverses one by one. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It will thus be seen that the primary current passes through the transmitter, and the secondary traverses the line. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Traverses had, therefore, been run until really the work was a succession of small forts enclosed by a large one. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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