swerve

英 [sw??v] 美[sw?v]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?swerves;過去式:?swerved;過去分詞:?swerved;現(xiàn)在分詞:?swerving;

1. 諧音“使彎兒、使彎兒喔、使彎兒彎兒”。

swerve 轉(zhuǎn)向，急轉(zhuǎn)彎

可能來自輔音叢 sw-,彎，轉(zhuǎn)，搖擺，搖晃，比較 swing,sway,sweep,swipe.引申詞義轉(zhuǎn)向，急

swerve (v.): c. 1200, "to depart, go make off; turn away or aside;" c. 1300, "to turn aside, deviate from a straight course;" in form from Old English sweorfan "to rub, scour, file away, grind away," but sense development is difficult to trace. The Old English word is from Proto-Germanic *swerb- (cf Old Norse sverfa "to scour, file," Old Saxon swebran "to wipe off"), from PIE root *swerbh- "to turn; wipe off." Cognate words in other Germanic languages (cognates: Old Frisian swerva "to creep," Middle Dutch swerven "to rove, roam, stray") suggests the sense of "go off, turn aside" might have existed in Old English, though unrecorded. Related: Swerved; swerving.
swerve (n.): 1741, from swerve (v.).

2. He did not swerve a hair's breadth from the decision he had made.: 他絲毫沒有改變自己已經(jīng)作出的決定。

3. He swung the car to the left and that swerve saved Malone's life.: 他猛地將車頭轉(zhuǎn)向左邊，這才保住了馬隆的性命。

4. The driver had ample time to brake or swerve and avoid the woman.: 司機(jī)有足夠的時(shí)間剎車或急轉(zhuǎn)彎，來避開那個(gè)女人。

5. Neither riches nor honours can corrupt him ; neither poverty nor humbleness can make him swerve from principle ; and neither threats nor forces can subdue him.: 富貴不能淫,貧賤不能移, 威武不能屈.