swerve

英[swɜːv] 美[swɝv]

反义词

第三人称单数: swerves;过去式: swerved;过去分词: swerved;现在分词: swerving;

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.).

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.