jerk
jerk 英 [dʒɜ:k] 美 [dʒɜrk]
n. 急拉；猛推 v. 急拉；猛推
进行时:jerking 过去式:jerked 过去分词:jerked 第三人称单数:jerks 名词复数:jerks
- A jerk is a sharp, sudden movement. When you're learning to drive a stick shift, it’s hard to avoid the jerk and lurch when you try to change gears. Jerk is also a very unflattering term for an obnoxious person.
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- n. 急拉；猛推
- v. 急拉；猛推
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1. He jerked the phone away from her.
他猛然一下从她那儿把电话抢走。
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2. She jerked her head up.
她猛然抬起头来。
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3. The bus jerked to a halt.
那辆公共汽车猛地一颠停下了。
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4. He grabbed a handful of hair and jerked at it.
他抓住一把头发猛拉。
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5. She got to the door and jerked it open.
她走到门口，猛然一把将门拉开。
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6. She sat up with a jerk.
她猛地坐了起来。
- jerk (n.1) 1550s, "stroke of a whip," from jerk (v.1). Sense of "sudden sharp pull or twist" first recorded 1570s. Meaning "involuntary spasmodic movement of limbs or features" first recorded 1805. As the name of a popular dance, it is attested from 1966.
- jerk (n.2) "tedious and ineffectual person," 1935, American English carnival slang, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from jerkwater "petty, inferior, insignificant" [Barnhart, OED]; alternatively from, or influenced by, verbal phrase jerk off "masturbate" [Rawson]. The lyric in "Big Rock Candy Mountain," sometimes offered as evidence of earlier use, apparently is "Where they hung the Turk [not jerk] that invented work."
- jerk (v.1) "to pull with sudden energy," 1580s; earlier "to lash, strike as with a whip" (1540s, surviving only in dialect), of uncertain origin, perhaps echoic. Intransitive sense of "make a sudden spasmodic motion" is from c. 1600. A soda jerk attested from 1883, from the pulling motion required to work the taps. Soda jerk (1915) is so called for the pulling motion required to work the taps.
- jerk (v.2) "preserve (meat) by cutting into long thin strips and drying in the sun," 1707, American English, from American Spanish carquear, from charqui (see jerky). Related: Jerked.
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