单词 | traverse |
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音标 | ['trævə:s] |
解释 | v.横穿过,横跨 |
红宝书 | 【英】 v.横过,扫过(to go or travel across or over) 【考】 diverge : apart / traverse : across(分歧分开/横穿越过) 【记】 tra(横)+verse(转)→ 横过 【例】 The railway traverses hundreds of miles of desert.(这条铁路横 贯沙漠数百英里) |
字源 | traverse (v.) early 14c., "pass across, over, or through," from Old French traverser "to cross, place across" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *traversare, from Latin transversare "to cross, throw across," from Latin transversus "turn across" (see transverse). As an adjective from early 15c. Related: Traversed; traversing. traverse (n.) "act of passing through a gate, crossing a bridge, etc.," mid-14c., from Old French travers, from traverser (see traverse (v.)). Meaning "a passage by which one may traverse" is recorded from 1670s. Military fortification sense of "barrier, barricade" is recorded from 1590s. |
不择手段背单词 | v. 横过 【记】tra横, verse转一横过 【类】diverge: apart = traverse: across分歧分开 = 横穿越过 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】源自transverse 横向的, 横断的 tra = trans 穿越 + verse 翻转 【相关】cross |
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