athwart
adv. 横跨着, 相反 prep. 横跨, 逆, 与...相反
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释义与例句
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1.
From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.
航海 交通Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.
We placed one log on the ground, and another athwart, forming a crude cross.
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2.
Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.
航海 交通a fleet standing athwart our course
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3.
Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.
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1.
From one side to the other side of; across.
航海 交通The stars moved slowly athwart the sky.
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2.
Across the course or path of, so as to meet; hence (figuratively), to the attention of.
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Across the course or path of, so as to oppose.
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Across; through.
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5.
Opposed to.
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Across the line of a ship's course, or across its deck.
航海 交通The damaged mainmast fell athwart the deck, destroying the ship’s boat.
词汇关系
词源
From Late Middle English athwert, athirt, from a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwert (“crosswise; (cooking) across the grain”, adverb). Thwert is derived from thwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate, stubborn”, adjective), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”). The English word is analysable as a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwart (“placed or situated across something else”). Cognates * Scots athort (“athwart”)
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