traverse
英 ['tr?v?s; tr?'v??s]
美 [tr?'v?s]
- n. 穿過；橫貫；橫木
- vt. 穿過；反對；詳細研究；在…來回移動
- vi. 橫越；旋轉；來回移動
- adj. 橫貫的
- n. (Traverse)人名；(英)特拉弗斯；(法)特拉韋爾斯
助記提示
1、tra- "across" + vers- + -e.
2、字面含義：turn across, turned or directed across, lying across. => pass across, over, or through.
3、該詞源于transverse. transverse => traverse.
4、橫亙、橫貫在什么之上(lying across)，引申為：妨礙，阻止；在此基礎上進一步引申為：反對，否認，否定；反駁；抗辯。
中文詞源
traverse 橫穿，橫渡tra-,橫穿，穿過，-vers,轉，詞源同 converse,versus.
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. I have no intention to traverse that ground in my present lecture.
- 在這次演講中我不打算詳細討論這一點.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 2. We traverse the desert by truck.
- 我們乘卡車橫穿沙漠.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. He cut his teeth in the sixties as director of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.
- 他60年代剛出道時在愛丁堡特拉弗斯劇院擔任導演。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. But can you traverse the stream?
- 可是,你能闖過那車的洪流、人的洪流 嗎 ?
來自漢英文學 - 現代散文
- 5. In a traverse, afternoon reciprocal angles should be easy to arrange.
- 在導線測量中, 下午對向觀測垂直角應該是容易安排的.
來自辭典例句