| 单词 | wry |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [rai] |
| 解释 | a.扭曲的；冷嘲性幽默的 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 adj. 扭曲的; 冷嘲性幽默的(showin g a mixture of amusement and displeasure, dislike, or disbelief) 【考】 反义词: straight(直接的); undeviatingly(不偏 离的) 【例】 She watched their fumbling efforts with wry amusement. |
| 字源 | wry (adj.) 1520s, "distorted, somewhat twisted to one side," from obsolete verb wry "to contort, to twist or turn," from Old English wrigian "to turn, bend, move, go," from Proto-Germanic *wrig- (cognates: Old Frisian wrigia "to bend," Middle Low German wrich "turned, twisted"), from PIE *wreik- "to turn" (cognates: Greek rhoikos "crooked," Lithuanian raisas "paralysed"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). Of words, thoughts, etc., from 1590s. The original sense is preserved in awry. |
| 不择手段背单词 | adj. 扭曲的; 讽刺性幽默的 【类】fluent: glib = humorous: wry『meticulous: finicky』流利的: 油腔滑调的 = 幽默的: 讽刺性幽默的(褒贬)『过分注重细节的: 过分注重细节的』 【反】straight(adj 直接的); undeviating(adj 坚定不移的); even(adj 平滑的); true(adj 真实的); direct(adj 径直的) |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】音：歪→扭曲；wrong，范了错会有人嘲讽 |
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