lurch
lurch 英 [lɜ:tʃ] 美 [lɜrtʃ]
n. 突然倾斜；蹒跚；挫折 vi. 倾斜；蹒跚 vt. 击败
进行时:lurching 过去式:lurched 过去分词:lurched 第三人称单数:lurches 名词复数:lurches
- To lurch is to suddenly move — usually forward. If you are on a ship that lurches a lot during a storm, you may find your body lurching in one direction and your stomach going in the opposite one.
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- n. 突然倾斜；蹒跚；挫折
- vi. 倾斜；蹒跚
- vt. 击败
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1. Otherwise, we’ll lurch from crisis to crisis — and the crises will get bigger and bigger.
如若不然，我们将在不同的危机之间蹒跚前行，而灾难规模也将越来越大。
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2. Its lurch of 0.26 degrees is said to be visible to the naked eye –and if it goes uncorrected could cause the tower to crash.
钟楼的倾斜度已达0.26度，据说仅凭肉眼就能观察到。 如果再不加以矫正的话就可能会有倒塌的危险。
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3. But the upward lurch in Russia’s taxes seems particularly rough on the country’s brewers, 80% of which are wholly or partly foreign-owned.
但是俄罗斯的蹒跚而上的税收貌似对这个国家的啤酒商异常苛刻，而这些啤酒商的80%都是外资或部分外资企业。
- lurch (n.1) "sudden pitch to one side," 1784, from earlier lee-larches (1765), a nautical term for "the sudden roll which a ship makes to lee-ward in a high sea, when a large wave strikes her, and bears her weather-side violently up, which depresses the other in proportion" ["Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences," London 1765]. This is perhaps from French lacher "to let go," from Latin laxus (see lax).
- lurch (n.2) "predicament," 1580s, from Middle English lurch (v.) "to beat in a game of skill (often by a great many points)," mid-14c. (implied in lurching), probably literally "to make a complete victory in lorche," an old game akin to backgammon, with a name of uncertain origin. Perhaps it is related to Middle English lurken, lorken "to lie hidden, lie in ambush" (Middle English Dictionary; see lurk), or it may be from Old French lourche, from Middle High German lurz "left," also "wrong" [OED]. The immediate source of the transferred use in leave in the lurch "leave suddenly and unexpectedly in an embarrassing predicament" (1590s) would be cribbage.
- lurch (v.) 1821, "to roll or sway suddenly to one side," from lurch (n.1). Meaning "walk with an uneven gait" is from 1851. Related: Lurched; lurching.
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