单词 | hover |
释义 | hov·er I. intransitive verb 1. a. < the hawk hovered searching the ground below > : remain floating or suspended about or over a place or object < clouds of smoke hovered over the building > b. of an airplane 2. a. < doormen annoy me … hovering anxiously over people — Evelyn Barkins > < the shark was still hovering about — Francis Birtles > < the thermometer hovered around 90 > < the boat hovered outside the three-mile limit > b. < when he was hesitating or hovering over a word — David Abercrombie > < hovering uncomfortably behind a cigar — Tennessee Williams > < the country hovered on the brink of famine > 3. < as if a gash had been torn in the web of restraint behind which she forced him to hover — Marcia Davenport > < the bathtub fell … and crushed the woman hovering in the cellar — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > 4. dialect Britain transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. < a hen hovers her chicks > II. 1. < the sweep and hover of the pale birds — Mary H. Vorse > < the smoke from the croft house rises, a hover of peat-scented blue — Naomi Mitchison > 2. 3. a. dialect b. 4. |
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