tilt
tilt 英 [tɪlt] 美 [tɪlt]
v. 倾斜；翘起 n. 倾斜，尝试
进行时:tilting 过去式:tilted 过去分词:tilted 第三人称单数:tilts 名词复数:tilts
- Tilt is both a noun and a verb. It has many shades of meaning, but most involve a slope or slant. When you're dizzy from eating too much, you might tilt when you walk away from the table.
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- v. 倾斜；翘起
- n. 倾斜，尝试
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1. Suddenly the boat tilted to one side.
小船突然倾向一侧。
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2. The seat tilts forward, when you press this lever.
按这个控制柄，座位就向前倾斜。
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3. His hat was tilted slightly at an angle.
他的帽子有点歪。
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4. The conditions may tilt the balancein favour of the Kenyan runners.
这些条件可能对肯尼亚赛跑运动员有利。
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5. Popular opinion has tilted in favourof the socialists.
公众舆论已倒向社会党人一边。
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6. He was tilting at the top prize.
他在力争夺魁。
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7. The table is at a slight tilt.
这桌子有点儿倾斜。
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8. He answered with a tilt of his head.
他歪着头回答。
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9. She aims to have a tilt at the world championship next year.
她的目标是明年问鼎世界冠军。
- tilt (n.1) "a joust, a combat," 1510s, perhaps from tilt (v.1) on the notion of "to lean" into an attack, but the word originally seems to have been the name of the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt in an earlier meaning "covering of coarse cloth, an awning" (mid-15c.). This is perhaps from tilt (v.1), or related to or influenced by tent. Watkins derives it from Old English teld "awning, tent," related to beteldan "to cover," from Proto-Germanic *teldam "thing spread out." Hence, also full tilt (c. 1600). Pinball machine sense is from 1934.
- tilt (n.2) "condition of being tilted," 1837, from tilt (v.1).
- tilt (v.1) Old English *tyltan "to be unsteady," from tealt "unsteady," from Proto-Germanic *taltaz (source also of Old Norse tyllast "to trip," Swedish tulta "to waddle," Norwegian tylta "to walk on tip-toe," Middle Dutch touteren "to swing"). Meaning "to cause to lean, tip, slope" (1590s) is from sense of "push or fall over." Intransitive sense "to lean, tip" first recorded 1620s. Related: Tilted; tilting.
- tilt (v.2) "to joust," 1590s, from tilt (n.1). Related: Tilted; tilting. The figurative sense of tilting at windmills is suggested in English by 1798; the image is from Don Quixote, who mistook them for giants.
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