| 词汇 | hovered |
| 释义 | hovered past simple and past participle ofhover hover verb uk /ˈhɒv.ər/ us /ˈhʌ.vɚ/ [ Iusually+ adv/prep ] to stay in one place in the air, usually by moving the wings quickly: 盘旋，翱翔 A hawk hovered in the sky, waiting to swoop down on its prey.一只老鹰在天空中盘旋，要伺机俯冲捕捉猎物。 I heard the noise of a helicopter hovering overhead.我听到头顶上直升飞机盘旋的声音。 [ Iusually+ adv/prep ] to stand somewhere, especially near another person, eagerly or nervously waiting for their attention: 徘徊，守候 A waiter hovered at the table, ready to take our order.一名侍者守在桌子旁，等着我们点菜。 I could sense him behind me, hovering and building up the courage to ask me a question.我能感觉到他在我身后犹豫徘徊，想鼓起勇气问我一个问题。 [ I+ prep ] to stay at or near a particular level: （在某一水平附近）徘徊 hover atInflation is hovering at three percent.通货膨胀率在3%左右徘徊。 [ I+ adv/prep, T ] to put the cursor on a computer screen in a particular place without clicking on it: 把光标放在电脑屏幕上的某个位置 hover overThe link changes to green when the mouse hovers over it. 当光标放在链接文字上时，文字会变成绿色。 If you hover the mouse pointer over the entry, the full web address will be displayed.当你把光标放在这条记录上时，整个网站地址就会显示出来。 Movement through the air airborne buoyantly buzz flight flighted fly glide hang time hover levitate lift skim smoothness soar soaring stunt swish swishy swoop wheel You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Waiting Animal (non-human) behaviour Zoology: ornithology & bird-watching Keeping and staying the same Operating computers Examples of hoveredhovered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. While this trade was subject to various state regulations, ' as in other spheres, metropolitan control hovered in the background but was limited ' (p. 141). However, gossip hovered at the divide between respectable and non-respectable. The female share hovered between 10 and 20 per cent with no discernible trend until 1884. On the other hand, home-help use showed negligible variation, and hovered around the national average of 54 per cent. Presentiments of strange discoveries hovered around me ' ' (28). And above all hovered a sense of resigned acceptance, because 'this is the only life there is'. The clerk hovered close by, note-taking was screened. Unemployment was rampant, exceeding the national average which hovered around 20 per cent, and agricultural life was frequently disrupted. The lyrics were very uplifting at a time when dark clouds of despair hovered over the society. The temperature of both air and water hovered around freezing point. The counts, however, hovered near 50% suggesting an ambiguity in the stimulus. One hopes that as our field continues to evolve in more experimental directions phonologists will take up this and other basic questions that have hovered over the discipline for years. This discussion is eminently relevant to music education, which for the past two decades has hovered between emphasis on perpetuating a body of masterpieces or creative musicianship. But as technical training expanded after 1870, many young men with some academic grounding in the design of structures went into contracting instead, or hovered between professional and commercial status. They hovered briefly about 2 cm from a capitulum, then landed and immediately started moving quickly through the projecting anthers using their fore and mid legs. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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