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Meaning Skew French Sense Recorded Skju A.不直的,歪斜的 英

单词 skew
音标 [skju:]
解释 a.不直的,歪斜的
红宝书 【英】 adj.不直的,歪斜的 (running obliquely;slanting )
【例】 The picture was skew.
字源 skew (v.)
late 15c., "to turn aside" (intransitive), from Old North French eskiuer "shy away from, avoid," Old French eschiver (see eschew). Transitive sense of "turn (something) aside" is from 1570s. Meaning "depict unfairly" first recorded 1872, on notion of being "give oblique direction to," hence "to distort, to make slant." Statistical sense dates from 1929. Related: Skewed; skewing. The adjectival meaning "slanting, turned to one side" is recorded from c.1600, from the verb; noun meaning "slant, deviation" first attested 1680s.
不择手段背单词 adj. 不直的, 歪斜的; 不对称的 = asymmetrical
【记】和skewer(n 串肉扦)一起记住, 一个是直的, 一个是弯的.
趣味全助记 【记】screw 螺旋,螺丝钉,螺旋的东西需要有些斜,倾角才行,不能是直的,螺纹螺旋桨都是

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