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词汇 swerve
释义 swerve
verb[ I ]
uk /swɜːv/ us /swɝːv/
to change direction, especially suddenly: 突然改变方向,急转弯
The bus driver swerved to avoid hitting a cyclist.为了不撞上骑自行车的人,这辆公共汽车只好急转弯。
If you do not swerve from a principle or certain actions, you continue to think or act as you did in the beginning: 改变,背离
She is one of those rare politicians whom one can trust not to swerve from policy and principle.她是一位难得可以信赖的政治家,不会背离自己的政策和原则。
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing direction
about-face
about-turn
bear
branch off
break
cut
decoy
divert someone/something to somewhere
do an about-face
do an about-turn
excursive
excursively
ping-pong
regear
reverse
slew
someone's back is turnedidiom
turn around
turn off (something)
wheel

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swerve
noun[ C ]
uk /swɜːv/ us /swɝːv/
an act of changing direction, especially suddenly:
After several swerves, the car flipped over and skidded across the pavement.
He ran past the defender with a swerve of his hips.
The car suddenly took a swerve towards us.
With a dip and a swerve the ball looped into the goal.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing direction
about-face
about-turn
bear
branch off
break
cut
decoy
divert someone/something to somewhere
do an about-face
do an about-turn
excursive
excursively
ping-pong
regear
reverse
slew
someone's back is turnedidiom
turn around
turn off (something)
wheel

swerve | American Dictionary


swerve
verb[ I/T ]
us/swɜrv/
to turn suddenly to one side while moving forward:
[ I ]The cab slowed down and swerved towards the curb.

Examples of swerve


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Every now and then the atoms just swerved.
If a pet dog ran into the street and a cyclist swerved, there might be some reasonable apprehension that that cyclist might be injured.
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One could never imagine his being swerved from what he thought to be right by any personal consideration or any private prejudice.
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Perhaps due to the weight, when the brakes of the lorry were put on the trailer swerved round and went into a form of skidding.
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He swerved to avoid it and struck the milk barrow.
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I should probably have a double heart attack, swerving violently both ways.
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At the last moment the coach driver swerved into the path of an on-coming lorry and collided with it.
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The car swerves to avoid them, and probably suffers a very much worse accident in its career across the road.
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If they are full of potholes, cyclists will be swerving to avoid the bumps and there will be accidents.
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I may, however, cause the death of the driver who swerves to avoid me.
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The second course is for the gas boards to slow down their move away from coal without swerving from their path towards greater technical efficiency.
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Liberalism was his creed, and he never swerved from it.
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We never swerved from that position to the last.
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We have not swerved one inch or one iota from them, nor shall we do so.
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Where that has happened, local authorities in many cases have swerved away, and consequently the public interest has not been served.
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