careen
careen 英 [kəˈri:n] 美 [kəˈrin]
vi. 倾侧，倾斜 vt. 使倾侧，使倾斜 n. 船的倾侧
进行时:careening 过去式:careened 过去分词:careened 第三人称单数:careens 名词复数:careens
- Whether it’s an unsteady ship, a speeding bus, or a person who is woozy, use the verb careen to describe something that’s teetering from side to side.
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- vi. 倾侧，倾斜
- vt. 使倾侧，使倾斜
- n. 船的倾侧
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1. As Jack speeds to the gate, guards shoot at the van, causing it to careen to a halt.
杰克驾车加速向大门冲去，守卫们向他的车狂扫射击，使得车倾翻了，停止了前进。
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2. We catch a glimpse of it when we are in a Jamaican taxi and the driver careen the corner missing the incoming trailer by several inches.
当我们坐在一辆牙买加的士中，司机因为没看见几英寸以外开过来的拖车猛然转弯时，我们和死亡擦肩而过。
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3. But fears linger that China will careen from the overheated pace of investment of the past two years to the opposite extreme in which companies cannot get any credit.
但人们一直担心，中国可能从最近两年的投资过热转向另一个极端，即企业完全贷不到款。
- careen (v.) 1590s, "to turn a ship on its side" (with the keel exposed, for inspection, repairs, etc.), from French cariner, literally "to expose a ship's keel," from Middle French carene "keel" (16c.), from Italian (Genoese dialect) carena, from Latin carina "keel of a ship," also (and perhaps originally) "nutshell," possibly from PIE root *kar- "hard."
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