| 词汇 | veering |
| 释义 | veering present participle ofveer veer verb[ I+ adv/prep ] uk /vɪər/ us /vɪr/ to change direction: 改变方向;转向 All of a sudden, the car veered off the road.突然那辆车改变方向冲出了公路。 Moments before crashing, the jet was seen veering sharply to the right.坠机之前的一瞬间，有人看见那架喷气式飞机猛地转向右方。 Three men were feared dead last night after a helicopter veered off course into an oil platform.昨晚一架直升飞机偏离航线撞上了石油钻井平台，恐怕有3人因此死亡。 Our talk soon veered onto the subject of money.我们的谈话很快就转到了金钱上。 Changing direction about-face about-turn bear branch branch off break 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 swerve turn around wheel Examples of veeringveering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He clearly establishes the direction and goals of his inquiry, never once veering off the track. A primary magnetic fabric of sedimentary origin defines cur rent flow from a westerly veering to northwesterly source. For, without a clearly defined superior authority, the executive officers tended towards exorbitance or timid inactivity or an erratic veering between the two. Later movements paint an extraordinary range of impressions, veering unexpectedly from spacious languor to rhapsodic exhiliration. In these straitened times, courtesy of the left veering right, university libraries have to balk at being bilked. Mathematical descriptions are at a basic level, never veering into the stratosphere, providing an intuitive understanding of these concepts for the musician. Apart from the difficulty of ensuring that sufficient surrogates would offer themselves, without veering into coercion, it simply seems to reframe the problem in a narrower context. She presents herself as if she were straightforwardly answering, and agreeably expressing "concern," while surreptitiously veering away from the question in the way in which it has been framed. Self-representation in diaries also differs markedly, veering more towards self-expression than the production of a consistent, unified version of oneself : in this case as well, openendedness is the rule. As a result, city family structure is veering steadily to a 4-2-1 pattern in which a married couple takes care of four grandparents and the single child. Production was veering away from consumer goods, which were causing the inflation, to export goods and to investment goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our present-day situation is the result of veering off course. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Until then, all countries have to stumble towards liberty and equality, sometimes veering more towards one, and sometimes more towards the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Neither the business community nor anyone else would thank us for veering from one side to the other on any of these issues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If there is not a consensus emerging towards a form of local income tax, at any rate a good many are veering towards it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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