careen

英 [kə'riːn] 美[kə'rin]
  • vi. 倾侧,倾斜
  • vt. 使倾侧,使倾斜
  • n. 船的倾侧

GRE

词态变化


第三人称单数: careens;过去式: careened;过去分词: careened;现在分词: careening;

中文词源


careen 将船倾斜,疾驰

本义将船倾斜,将龙骨外露进行修补,来自拉丁词carina, 龙骨,词源同hard. 后受career影响,词义主要用于疾驰。

英英释意


1. pitching dangerously to one side

英文词源


careen
careen: [16] Careen comes ultimately from carīna, the Latin word for a ‘nutshell’, which is related to Greek káruon ‘nut’ and Sanskrit kárakas ‘coconut’. The idea of a ‘nut’ as a metaphor for a ‘boat’ is a fairly obvious one (shell is similarly used for a ‘rowing boat’), and the Latin word came to be used for a ‘ship’s keel’, the raised seam of a walnut perhaps suggesting the line of the timber along the ship’s bottom.

It passed via the Genoese dialect carena into French, where a vessel en carène was turned over on its side so that its keel was exposed; hence the verb. The equation of careen with career ‘go wildly’ is 20th-century and of American origin.

careen (v.)
1590s, "to turn a ship on its side" (with the keel exposed), from French cariner, literally "to expose a ship's keel," from Middle French carene "keel" (16c.), from Italian (Genoese dialect) carena, from Latin carina "keel of a ship," originally "nutshell," possibly from PIE root *kar- "hard" (see hard (adj.)).

Intransitive sense of "to lean, to tilt" is from 1763, specifically of ships; in general use by 1883. In sense "to rush headlong," confused with career (v.) since at least 1923. [To career is to move rapidly; to careen is to lurch from side to side (often while moving rapidly).] Earlier figurative uses of careen were "to be laid up; to rest." Related: Careened; careening.

实用场景例句


He stood to one side as they careened past him...
他们在他身边疾驰而过,他赶紧让到一边。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The truck sways wildly, careening down narrow mountain roads.
卡车疯狂地左摇右晃,从狭窄的山路上急冲而下。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Their ship was put into port to careen and refit.
他们的轮船被送入港口倾侧待修.

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