| 英语单词 | thwart |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [θwɔːt] 美 [θwɔːrt] |
| 中文释义 | v.反对;阻碍 n.座板 adv.横过 adj.横向的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) She intends to thwart his plans, and be revenged on him. (2) Sometimes it isn't you I hate but your power to thwart me. (3) I don't think that will thwart our purposes. (4) Our course must thwart those designs. (5) He made the fish fast to bow and stern and to the middle thwart. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 她要破坏他的计划,以图报复。 (2) 有时让我讨厌的并不是你,而是你阻挠我的能力。 (3) 我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。 (4) 我们的方针是必须挫败他们这种企图。 (5) 他把绑鱼的绳子系在船头、船梢的中间的座板上。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A villain's worst nightmare is the superhero who always seems to thwart his efforts, preventing him from carrying out his plans to take over the world. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Thwart is a word you'll hear in a lot of action movies, and usually it's the hero who is trying to thwart the evil plan of some super-villain. Yet even mere mortals can be thwarted in their efforts; the word simply means to prevent someone from carrying out his or her plans. An aggressive driver can thwart your attempt to snag a parking space at a crowded mall by pulling into the space before you. An aggressive shopper at that same mall can thwart your efforts to buy the last Dancing Snoopy doll by grabbing it off the shelf first. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]使受挫;阻碍;阻挠 If you thwart someone or thwart their plans, you prevent them from doing or getting what they want. [V n]
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