thwart是什么意思_thwart怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth"s amazing September surge"
"foil your opponent"

中英词源

thwart 横跨，横过，横着的，阻止，阻挠

原义为副词，来自古诺斯语 thvert,穿过，横过，来自 Proto-Germanic*thwerh,扭转的，交叉的，置换自 PIE*terkw,扭动，转动，来自 PIE*ter,*tere,弯，转，穿过，词源同 turn,through,trans-. 后引申动词词义相反，阻止，阻挠等。

thwart: thwart: [13] Thwart was originally an adverb and adjective, meaning ‘across, crosswise’. It was however used as a verb, meaning ‘obstruct’ (from the metaphorical notion of ‘crossing’ someone) as early as the 13th century. It was borrowed from Old Norse thvert, the neuter form of thverr ‘transverse’. This went back to a prehistoric Germanic *thwerkhwaz (possible source also of English queer), which in turn was descended from Indo-European *twork-, *twerk- ‘twist’ (source also of English torch, torment, torture, etc).

How the noun thwart ‘seat across a boat’ [18] fits into the picture is not altogether clear. Its modern meaning clearly connects it with thwart ‘across’, but the notion of ‘crosswise’ may have been a secondary development. For an earlier noun thought ‘seat in a boat’ existed, which came ultimately from Old English thofta ‘rower’s bench’, and it could be that thwart the modern English noun represents a blending, both formal and semantic, of thwart ‘across’ with the now obsolete thought.
=> queer, torch, torment, torture
thwart (adv.): c. 1200, from a Scandinavian source, probably Old Norse þvert "across," originally neuter of thverr (adj.) "transverse, across," cognate with Old English þweorh "transverse, perverse, angry, cross," from Proto-Germanic *thwerh- "twisted, oblique" (cognates: Middle Dutch dwers, Dutch dwars "cross-grained, contrary," Old High German twerh, German quer, Gothic þwairhs "angry"), altered (by influence of *thwer- "to turn") from *therkh-, from PIE *terkw- "to twist" (cognates: Latin torquere "to twist," Sanskrit tarkuh "spindle," Old Church Slavonic traku "band, girdle," Old High German drahsil "turner," German drechseln "to turn on a lathe"), possibly a variant of *twerk- "to cut." From mid-13c. as an adjective.
thwart (v.): "oppose, hinder," mid-13c., from thwart (adv.). Related: Thwarted; thwarting.

词态变化

第三人称单数 thwarts;
过去式 thwarted;
过去分词 thwarted;
现在分词 thwarting;

权威造句

1. The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators.: 会计事务所故意毁坏文件，阻挠政府调查工作。

2. to thwart sb"s plans: 阻挠某人的计划

3. We must thwart his malevolent schemes.: 我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞.

4. The Everton keeper needed all his courage to thwart a charging Vinny Jones in full flow.: 埃弗顿的守门员需要鼓足全部勇气才有可能抵挡住状态正佳的维尼·琼斯的冲锋射门。

5. He sat down and, clinging to the thwart, began to sob quietly.: 他坐下去, 抓住了座板, 开始低声哭泣.

近反义词

frustrate 挫败

spoil 宠坏

foil 钝头剑

prevent 预防

obstruct 阻隔

hinder 阻碍

impede 妨碍

ruin 毁灭

put paid to 结束(打破)

put a stop to 制止

stop 停止

defeat 挫败

balk 阻止

hamper 妨碍

forbid 禁止

prohibit 禁止

deter 阻止

inhibit 抑制

oppose 反对

scotch 伤口

stonewall 阻碍议事

abort 流产

embarrass 使窘迫

across 横过

stem 柄

cross 穿过

queer 古怪的

baffle 困惑

bilk 赖账

相似短语

cross thwart phr. 阻碍，阻挠

mast thwart 桅座板

thwart one"s effort 挫败某人的努力

单词分析

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记忆方法

1. 谐音“死卧拖”-----死死的卧倒在他前面拖住他、阻挠他。

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