traverse

英 ['trævəs; trə'vɜːs] 美 [trə'vɝs]
  • n. 穿过；横贯；横木
  • vt. 穿过；反对；详细研究；在…来回移动
  • vi. 横越；旋转；来回移动
  • adj. 横贯的
  • n. (Traverse)人名；(英)特拉弗斯；(法)特拉韦尔斯
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助记提示

1、tra- "across" + vers- + -e.
2、字面含义：turn across, turned or directed across, lying across. => pass across, over, or through.
3、该词源于transverse. transverse => traverse.
4、横亘、横贯在什么之上(lying across)，引申为：妨碍，阻止；在此基础上进一步引申为：反对，否认，否定；反驳；抗辩。

中文词源

traverse 横穿，横渡

tra-,横穿，穿过，-vers,转，词源同 converse,versus.

英文词源

traverse (v.)
early 14c., "pass across, over, or through," from Old French traverser "to cross, place across" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *traversare, from Latin transversare "to cross, throw across," from Latin transversus "turn across" (see transverse). As an adjective from early 15c. Related: Traversed; traversing.
traverse (n.)
"act of passing through a gate, crossing a bridge, etc.," mid-14c., from Old French travers, from traverser (see traverse (v.)). Meaning "a passage by which one may traverse" is recorded from 1670s. Military fortification sense of "barrier, barricade" is recorded from 1590s.

双语例句

1. I have no intention to traverse that ground in my present lecture.
在这次演讲中我不打算详细讨论这一点.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2. We traverse the desert by truck.
我们乘卡车横穿沙漠.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3. He cut his teeth in the sixties as director of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.
他60年代刚出道时在爱丁堡特拉弗斯剧院担任导演。

来自柯林斯例句

4. But can you traverse the stream?
可是,你能闯过那车的洪流、人的洪流 吗 ?

来自汉英文学 - 现代散文

5. In a traverse, afternoon reciprocal angles should be easy to arrange.
在导线测量中, 下午对向观测垂直角应该是容易安排的.

来自辞典例句