sheer
sheer 英 [ʃɪə(r)] 美 [ʃɪr]
adj. 完全的，纯粹的，十足的；透明的；峻峭的 adv. 陡峭地
进行时:sheering 过去式:sheered 过去分词:sheered 第三人称单数:sheers 名词复数:sheers
- If people can see through your shirt, it's sheer. This can also mean something steep, like a cliff, or anything extreme, like sheer nerve.
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- adj. 完全的，纯粹的，十足的；透明的；峻峭的
- adv. 陡峭地
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1. It's a sheer waste of time.
简直是浪费时间。
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2. We were impressed by the sheer size of the cathedral.
大教堂的宏大规模给我们留下了深刻的印象。
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3. The concert was sheer delight.
这场音乐会是一次十足的享受。
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4. I only agreed out of sheer desperation.
我一时情急才同意的。
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5. sheer cliffs, sheer slopes
悬崖峭壁；陡坡
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6. sheer nylon
透明尼龙
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7. The cliffs rise sheer from the beach.
悬崖从海滩上拔地而起。
- sheer (adj.) c. 1200, "exempt, free from guilt" (as in Sheer Thursday, the Thursday of Holy Week); later schiere "thin, sparse" (c. 1400), from Old English scir "bright, clear, gleaming; translucent; pure, unmixed," and influenced by Old Norse cognate scær "bright, clean, pure," both from Proto-Germanic *skeran (source also of Old Saxon skiri, Old Frisian skire, German schier, Gothic skeirs "clean, pure"), from PIE root *sker- (1) "to cut."
- sheer (v.) 1620s, "deviate from course" (of a ship), of obscure origin, perhaps from Dutch scheren "to move aside, withdraw, depart," originally "to separate" (see shear (v.)). Related: Sheered; shearing. As a noun from 1660s.
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