thwart

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a. 横放的 vt. 反对, 阻挠, 横过 prep. 横过 adv. 横过

发音

UK /θwɔːt/
US /θwɔɹt/

词形变化

thwarts 复数 thwarts thwarted thwartedst thwarteth thwarting thwarts 三单 thwarting 现在分词 thwarted 过去式 thwarted 过去分词 thwartest thwartedst 过去式 thwarteth 三单 thwarted 复数 more thwart 比较级 most thwart 最高级

别名

thaught

教材释义与例句

名词

划手座；独木舟的横梁

动词

挫败；反对；阻碍；横过

形容词

横放的；固执的

副词

横过

介词

横过

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.

    航海 交通

    The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.

  2. 2.

    A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.

    航海 交通

    A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.

  3. 3.

    An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.

    罕用
v.
  1. 1.

    To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.

    阻挠

    及物

    Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.

    The police thwarted the would-be assassin.

  2. 2.

    To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.

    废旧 及物
  3. 3.

    To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.

    比喻 废旧 及物
  4. 4.

    To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.

    及物/不及物 废旧

    An arrow thwarts the air.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.

  2. 2.

    Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.

    过时 比喻
  3. 3.

    Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.

    过时 比喻
adv.
  1. 1.

    Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.

    废旧
prep.
  1. 1.

    Across, athwart.

    古体 诗歌

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

crosspiece

整体词 3

dory dinghy rowboat
动词

同义词 8

cross spoil scotch queer foil frustrate baffle bilk

上位词 5

prevent forbid foreclose preclude forestall

下位词 5

ruin disappoint dash short-circuit let down

词源

From Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert (“obstinate, perverse”), from Old Norse þvert, neuter of þverr (“transverse”). Cognates The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (þwairhs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh,

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