| 单词 | swerve |
| 释义 | swerve I. intransitive verb 1. < swerving to avoid two errand boys on bicycles — Robert Graves > < the bull swerved to meet this new opponent — Francis Birtles > < the highway swerves south — American Guide Series: Florida > 2. < had never swerved from what she conceived to be her duty — A.J.Kennedy > 3. archaic transitive verb < swerve the car > < swerve a ball > < do not let your apprehension of what the judges may say swerve you from saying what you think — C.P.Curtis > Synonyms: < the highway now skirts the lake shore … and again swerves inland — American Guide Series: Vermont > < the driver of the motorcar swerved the other way but could not avoid the cab — Eric Linklater > < swerved and veered like a gull — John Dos Passos > < not to swerve from the path of duty or righteousness > veer, applying commonly to the change in the course of a wind or ship and often suggesting frequent turning or a series of turnings in the same direction, implies a change or a series of changes of direction or course under an external influence comparable to the wind < the wind suddenly veered and drove the waters of the Gulf in mountainous waves upon them — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < his thought, veering and tacking as the winds blew — V.L.Parrington > < drift with every current of opinion and veer like a weathercock with every breeze of fashion — S.J.Brown > < literary men veer between the extremes of a contempt for the masses and a glorification of the people — H.J.Muller > deviate implies a turning aside from a customary, allotted, or prescribed course, suggesting a swerving from what is the norm, the law, the standard, or the proper procedure or course < if he diminishes his speed by a fraction of a second or deviates a hair's breadth from the prescribed and never-changing movements of his hands — C.H.Grandgent > < anyone who deviates from that faith — V.M.Hancher > < has never deviated from the belief that the basis of a good cartoon is caricature — Current Biography > depart usually signifies little more than leaving a given path, usually figurative < one point in which the definition of virtue and vice given above departs from tradition and from common practice — Bertrand Russell > < the design of the center departs somewhat from that of the newer buildings — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < forced by circumstances to depart from the principles of his own logic — W.P.Webb > digress implies a departure from the subject of one's discourse whether intentional or from general lack of a sense of coherence < digress a moment from a main point of discussion to consider a pressing tangential problem > < an irritating habit of disgressing and never getting back to the main point of a story > diverge, often used in the sense of depart, usu., however, suggests a separation of one, usually a main, path into two or more leading in different directions < the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest from the accepted platitudes — H.L.Mencken > < diverged from the path, and got before them on the left flank — George Meredith > < proceeded along the road together till they reached the town, and their paths diverged — Thomas Hardy > < a year later the careers of the brothers, so far linked together, diverged — Current Biography > II. 1. < with a dexterous swerve he rounded the yawl about — Frederick Way > 2. |
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