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Swerve Turn English Scour Sense Wipe 12299.Swerve 英

正面 12299.swerve
英 [swɜːv]美 [swɝv]

背面
释义:
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
例句:
1. Nothing will swerve him from his aims.什么也不能使他改变目标.

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.)."

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