| 单词 | lurch |
| 释义 | lurch I. intransitive verb 1. dialect chiefly England < lurch about the place looking sinister — Anthony Carson > 2. obsolete transitive verb 1. obsolete < put lately into many men's heads … his own ambitious ends to lurch a crown — John Milton > 2. archaic < in the brunt of seventeen battles … he lurched all swords of the garland — Shakespeare > II. archaic < the enemy of human happiness, always lying at lurch to make prey of the young — J.P.Kennedy †1870 > III. 1. obsolete 2. obsolete a. b. < David, when he had Saul in his lurch, might … have cut off his head — Thomas Goodwin > 3. a. b. obsolete • - in the lurch IV. 1. 2. archaic < fortune … hath lurched generals in her time — Sporting Magazine > V. 1. a. b. < a sudden lurch of the vehicle threw the two men together — John Morrison > < felt a great lurch of joy — Marcia Davenport > c. < walk with the same slow, complacent lurch — Rebecca West > 2. < showed a decided lurch toward a solitary life > VI. 1. a. < the schooner lurched in the uneasy chop — Kenneth Roberts > < ramshackle outbuildings, lurching rose arches — Elizabeth Taylor > < the glen seemed to lurch forward and become a defile — John Buchan > b. < landing craft lurched toward shore — Time > < international group … lurched for days over lunar roads to watch the sacred right of franchise exercised — Punch > < she slouched off … the cub lurching along contentedly beside her — C.G.D.Roberts > 2. a. < a visiting … celebrity, somewhat bemused by whiskey, lurched across the room — Ian Bevan > < horses lurching in deep mud — Adrian Bell > b. < rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and lurched upright — Julian Dana > < lurched forward with a bullet in his head — E.V.Burkholder > < the pain lurched in him — Ernest Hemingway > 3. < we're not all … lurching along on mere instinct — Anne D. Sedgwick > < Congress lurched toward adjournment — Time > |
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