| 单词 | to churn one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto churn one's way a. To agitate, stir, and intermix any liquid, or mixture of liquid and solid matter; to produce (froth, etc.) by this process. to churn one's way; to advance by churning up (the sea, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > agitate or stir churn1697 kirn1822 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 419 Churning bloody Foam. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 307 The flesh trembles while she churns the blood. 1837 T. Campbell Dead Eagle in Poems (new ed.) 65 Winds churn'd white the waves. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxiv. 196 The sea seemed to be churning ice. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule ii. 20 All last night churning our way up to Loch Gair..and for what? 1880 R. Browning Pan & Luna in Dramatic Idyls 58 Lost in the thin foam Churned on a sea-shore. < as lemmas |
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