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athwart

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athwart /əˈθwɔɹt/ nghĩa là ngang qua, chếch ngang

Các nghĩa

  1. ngang qua, chếch ngang

    From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.

    Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.

    We placed one log on the ground, and another athwart, forming a crude cross.

    […] Frenzy, fierce-ey'd child of moping pain, / Darts her hot lightning flaſh athvvart the brain.

  2. ngang đường, cản trở

    Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.

    a fleet standing athwart our course

    [W]ith his ſpear / Advanced athvvart puſh'd back the Trojan van, / And all ſtood faſt.

    One of the world’s largest container ships was wedged athwart the Suez Canal on March 23rd, blown off course by high winds.

  3. ngược lại, sai trái

    Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.

    figuratively

    [A]ll athvvart there came / A poſt from VVales, loden vvith heauy nevves, […]

    The Baby beates the Nurſe, and quite athvvart / Goes all decorum.

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