swerve

英 [swɜːv]      美 [swɝːv]
  • vi. 转弯;突然转向;背离
  • vt. 使转弯;使突然转向;使背离
  • n. 转向;偏离的程度
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1. 谐音“使弯儿、使弯儿喔、使弯儿弯儿”。
swerve 转向,急转弯

可能来自辅音丛 sw-,弯,转,摇摆,摇晃,比较 swing,sway,sweep,swipe.引申词义转向,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.).
1. Nothing will swerve him from his aims.
什么也不能使他改变目标.
2. He did not swerve a hair's breadth from the decision he had made.
他丝毫没有改变自己已经作出的决定。
3. He swung the car to the left and that swerve saved Malone's life.
他猛地将车头转向左边,这才保住了马隆的性命。
4. The driver had ample time to brake or swerve and avoid the woman.
司机有足够的时间刹车或急转弯,来避开那个女人。
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.
富贵不能淫,贫贱不能移, 威武不能屈.

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