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ca·reen AHD[kə-rēnʹ] D.J.[kəˈriːn]K.K.[kəˈrin]v.(动词)ca.reened, ca.reen.ing, ca.reens v.intr.(不及物动词)- To lurch or swerve while in motion.蹒跚而行:在运动过程中突然侧倾或偏斜
- To rush headlong or carelessly; career:冲撞:头向前猛冲或漫不经心;急驰:"He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz"(Anne Tyler)“在孤注一掷地闪电战中他急冲过外国领地”(安妮·泰勒)
- Nautical 【航海】
- To lean to one side, as a ship sailing in the wind.倾侧:偏向一边,如一艘在风中行驶的船
- To turn a ship on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.倾侧以便整理:为清扫、捻缝或修理,将船倾侧
v.tr.Nautical(及物动词)【航海】- To cause (a ship) to lean to one side; tilt.使船倾侧:使(船)斜向一侧;使倾斜,使歪斜
- To lean (a ship) on one side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.倾侧以便整理:为清扫,捻缝,或修理,将(船)倾侧
- To clean, caulk, or repair (a ship in this position).将(船倾侧后)进行清扫、堵缝或修理
n.Nautical(名词)【航海】- The act or process of careening a ship.船的倾侧:倾侧船的行为或过程
- The position of a careened ship.船倾侧的位置
- From French (en) carène [(on) the keel] 源自 法语 (en) carène [平底船(上)]
- from Old French carene 源自 古法语 carene
- from Old Italian carena 源自 古意大利语 carena
- from Latin carīna * see kar- 源自 拉丁语 carīna * 参见 kar-
careenʹer n.(名词)- The implication of rapidity that most often accompanies the use ofcareen as a verb of motion may have arisen naturally through the extension of the nautical sense of the verb to apply to the motion of automobiles, which generallycareen, that is, lurch or tip over, only when driven at high speed. There is thus no reason to conclude that this use of the verb is the result of a confusion ofcareen with career, "to rush.” Whatever the origin of this use, however,it is by now so well establishedthat it would be pedantic to object to it.在多数时候,careen 作为动作动词使用时具有速度迅捷的含义。把该动词在航海方面的意思引申,使其义应用于汽车的运行,也许这样就很自然地产生了迅捷的含义; 因为汽车只有在高速行驶时通常才careen ,即突然地侧倾或偏斜。 据此,如果下结论说动词的这种用法是混淆了careen 和表示“急驰,猛冲的” careen 的结果,这是毫无道理的。 然而,不论这用法的起源是什么,如今它已得到确认,要对此表示异议的话未免过于迂腐了
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