请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 hurtle
释义 hur·tle
I. \ˈhər]d.əl, ˈhə̄], ˈhəi], ]təl\ verb
(hurtled ; hurtled ; hurtling \]d.əliŋ, ]t(ə)liŋ\ ; hurtles)
Etymology: Middle English hurtlen to collide, cause or allow to strike, freq. of hurten to cause or allow to strike
intransitive verb
1. archaic : to meet violently : hit with impact : collide
 < together hurtled both their steeds — Edward Fairfax >
2. : to progress with the sound or suddenness of violent motion : clatter, crash
 < boulders hurtled down the cliffs >
 < the morning gun … sent its echoes hurtling through the coco palms — G.P.Insh >
 < stubbed his foot against the doorjamb and hurtled into the hall — Liam O'Flaherty >
3. : to move rapidly : dash headlong : rush, shoot
 < you can hurtle along at supersonic speeds — Irwin Edman >
 < somehow he had hurtled past the propellers' blades — Time >
 < the country was hurtling toward disaster — Sidney Warren >
transitive verb
1. : to propel violently : catapult, fling
 < the subway hurtles hordes of workers daily into lower Manhattan >
 < Indians hurtle flaming arrows over the stockade wall >
 < when he hurtles himself into a dance — John Mason Brown >
2. dialect England : crouch
II. noun
(-s)
: an act of hurtling : throw, collision
随便看

 

英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/27 21:35:23