| 单词 | traverse |
| 释义 | traverse (once / 390 pages) vn The verb traverse means to travel across an extended area. "Her dream was to traverse the country by car, so she could meet new people and see all the kitschy sites — like the giant roadside tire in Michigan or the shoe house in Pennsylvania." The verb traverse can also mean "to span," to span a physical space or time. "The bridge traversed the river, linking the two cities." Traverse can be used for any crossing, but it often is used when implying the crossing will be difficult. "She was exhausted from traveling in the snowy conditions, but she still had to traverse an icy bridge before she would arrive safely home." WORD FAMILYtraverse: traversable, traversal, traversed, traverser, traverses, traversing+/traversable: untraversable/traversed: untraversed/traverser: traversers USAGE EXAMPLESThe Second Avenue line is a different story, traversing an already dense neighborhood, and the full economic impact is not yet clear. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) The poem talks about how: "We hate orange barriers/As they dig up the town/We all like to grumble/As we traverse around." BBC(Dec 29, 2016) I spend many days traversing Seattle’s socio-economic ladder and talking with people across the political spectrum. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1v travel across or pass over Syn|Hypo|Hyper cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track tramp cross on foot stridecover or traverse by taking long steps walktraverse or cover by walking crisscrosscross in a pattern, often random fordcross a river where it's shallow bridgecross over on a bridge jaywalkcross the road at a red light drive, takeproceed along in a vehicle coursemove swiftly through or over hoptraverse as if by a short airplane trip go across, go through, pass go across or through 2v cover or extend over an area or time period Syn|Hyper cross, span, sweep continue, cover, extend span an interval of distance, space or time 3v deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit Syn deny 4n travel across Syn|Hyper traversal travel, traveling, travelling the act of going from one place to another 5n a horizontal beam that extends across something Syn|Hyper crossbeam, crosspiece, trave beam long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction 6n a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it Syn|Hyper transom crosspiece a transverse brace 7n taking a zigzag path on skis Syn|Hyper traversal crossing traveling across |
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