Lurch



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 突然向前或旁边倒; v. 蹒跚而行
• ［英］ v. 蹒跚而行 ( to stagger)
• ［类］ 反义词: progress smoothly ( 平滑前进)
• ［例］ He walked with a lurch.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: Middle English lorchen, probably alteration of lurken to lurk
• Date: 15th century
• intransitive verb
  • dialect chiefly England to loiter about a place furtively ; prowl
• transitive verb
  • 1. obsolete steal
  • 2. archaic cheat

II. noun

• Etymology: Middle French lourche, adjective, defeated by a lurch, deceived
• Date: 1598
• a decisive defeat in which an opponent wins a game by more than double the defeated player's score especially in cribbage

III. transitive verb

• Date: circa 1651
• 1. archaic to leave in the lurch
• 2. to defeat by a lurch (as in cribbage)

IV. noun

• Etymology: origin unknown
• Date: 1805
• 1. a sudden roll of a ship to one side
• 2. an abrupt jerking, swaying, or tipping movement <the car moved forward with a lurch>; also stagger 2

V. intransitive verb

• Date: circa 1828
• 1. to roll or tip abruptly ; pitch
• 2. to move with a lurch <suddenly lurched forward>; also stagger <has lurched from crisis to crisis — Jere Longman>

---