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vi. 盘旋, 翱翔, 徘徊 vt. 孵 n. 翱翔

发音

UK /ˈhɒvə/
UK /ˈhʌvə/
其它
CA /ˈhɑvɚ/
US /ˈhɑvɚ/
CA /ˈhʌvɚ/
US /ˈhʌvɚ/
AU /ˈhɔvə/
AU /ˈhavə/

词形变化

hovers 复数 hovered hoveredst hovereth hovering hovers 三单 hovers hovering 现在分词 hovered 过去式 hovered 过去分词 hoverest hoveredst 过去式 hovereth 三单 hovered 复数

教材释义与例句

名词

徘徊；盘旋；犹豫

动词

盘旋，翱翔；徘徊

动词

孵；徘徊在…近旁

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.

  2. 2.

    A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.

  3. 3.

    An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.

v. B2
  1. 1.

    To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.

    及物
  2. 2.

    Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).

    及物
  3. 3.

    Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.

    废旧 及物
  4. 4.

    To remain stationary or float in the air.

    翱翔

    高飞

    悬停

    㝼

    搂

    不及物

    The hummingbird hovered by the plant.

  5. 5.

    Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.

    彽徊

    盘旋

    萦绕

    比喻 不及物

    His pen hovered above the paper.

    The strange man hovered outside the gents’ toilet.

    The visitors were hovering at the door, seemingly unwilling to enter.

    Some helicopter parents weren’t so much dropping off their kids as hovering over them until the event started.

  6. 6.

    To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.

    比喻 不及物

    Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.

  7. 7.

    Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).

    悬停

    不及物 计算机 工程 数学

    A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.

  8. 8.

    To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.

    不及物 航海 交通

词汇关系

动词

同义词 8

linger brood vibrate loom levitate oscillate bulk large vacillate

上位词 6

hang fly wing hesitate waffle waver

下位词 5

eclipse dominate poise overshadow shilly-shally

近义相关 1

levitate

相关短语

hover text hover hand hover hands hover slam hover slams

词源

The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”), probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”) (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix). Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (“to lift, raise”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift; to heave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to hold, seize”). The English word is analysable as hove (“(obsolete) to remain suspended, float, hover; to linger, wait”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb.

来源：wiktionary