swerve
swerve 英 [swɜ:v] 美 [swɜrv]
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
进行时:swerving 过去式:swerved 过去分词:swerved 第三人称单数:swerves 名词复数:swerves
- The noun swerve means a sudden turn off your path. As a verb, it means to move off your original route, possibly to avoid a collision. You can swerve either toward something or away from it.
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- 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. In a game of chicken, one or both drivers can swerve to avoid catastrophe.
在斗鸡博弈中，一方或双方参与人可以随时转向以避免灾难。
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2. Although he kept to the idea that the soul was itself nothing but the movement of atoms in the material body, some atoms could freely ‘swerve in the void’.
尽管伊壁鸠鲁保持了灵魂只是在肉体中运动的原子，有些原子可以在空间中突然转向这个观念。
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3. A mobile home stopped suddenly directly in front of him, forcing him to swerve into the right lane with his heavy load.
一个机动住宅突然在他的正前方停了下来。 逼迫他在重负载的情况下转向右车道。
- swerve (n.) 1741, from swerve (v.).
- 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 (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.
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