wade

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vi. 跋涉 vt. 涉水 n. 跋涉, 浅滩

发音

US /weɪd/
SCOT /wed/

词形变化

wades 复数 waded wades 三单 wades wadest wadeth wading wading 现在分词 waded 过去式 waded 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

跋涉

动词

涉水；费力行走

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An act of wading.

    We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.

  2. 2.

    A ford; a place to cross a river.

    非正式
  3. 1.

    Obsolete form of woad.

    废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To walk through water or something that impedes progress.

    涉水

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To progress with difficulty.

    不及物

    to wade through a dull book

  3. 3.

    To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.

    及物

    wading swamps and rivers

  4. 4.

    To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.

  5. 5.

    To enter recklessly.

    不及物

    to wade into a fight or a debate

词汇关系

动词

上位词 1

walk

下位词 1

puddle

相关短语

wade through 跋涉通过,趟水穿过,吃力地通过,费力地读完 wade in n. (黑人为抗议种族歧视而在白人专用的海滩或游泳池举行的)涉水示威 Wade Hampton St Nicholas at Wade

词源

From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”).

来源：wiktionary