veers

英 [vɪəz]

美 [vɪrz]

v.  突然变向; 猛然转向; 偏离; 改变; 转变; 改变方向
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柯林斯词典

• VERB （突然）转向,改变方向
  If somethingveersin a certain direction, it suddenly moves in that direction.
  1. The plane veered off the runway and careered through the perimeter fence...
     飞机突然偏离跑道，高速冲过了周围的护栏。
  2. Horrified commuters saw the lorry veer across the motorway and overturn.
     惊恐万分的通勤者们看见那辆卡车突然冲向高速公路另一侧，接着翻倒在地。
• VERB 改变立场（或态度）
  If someone or somethingveersin a certain direction, they change their position or direction in a particular situation.
  1. He is unlikely to veer from his boss's strongly held views...
     他不可能背离他老板的强硬立场。
  2. I veered away from the set menu and went for the day's special of queen scallops...
     我没有点套餐，而是要了当日的特供菜——皇后海扇贝。
  3. Her image veers towards the untidily romantic.
     她的形象变得风流多情，不修边幅。
• VERB （风）改变方向
  When the windveersit changes direction.
  1. The wind had veered from the west to north-by-west...
     风向已经改变，从西风转为西北风。
  2. As it strengthened the wind was veering southerly.
     随着风力加强，风向也向南偏转。

双语例句

• Which is so far correct, that understanding is not an ultimate, but on the contrary finite, and so constituted that when carried to extremes it veers round to its opposite.
  这话是正确的，因为理智并非是究竟至极，而是有限之物，而且理智的发挥，如果到了顶点，必定转化为其反面。
• Advertising veers up and down with the economic cycle, and can be skipped by using digital video recorders.
  广告业随经济周期的波动而起伏不定，借助数字录影机观众可以跳过广告。
• The road follows the coast for20 miles, then veers inland.
  这条路沿着海岸线有20英里，然后转向内陆。
• Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
  当然，我这段莫名其妙的杂碎汤带来的是最冗长的自我介绍。所以现在长话短说：能遇见您是我天大的荣幸，您可以叫我“V”。
• But in the euro crisis, the ECB is suddenly behaving in a way that veers wildly from the Germanic view of prudent central banking.
  但在欧元区危机中，欧洲央行的行为方式突然严重走偏，不再符合德国人对审慎央行行为的定义。
• Our boat speeds forward like a shooting star in the wake of the angry waves, then slowly veers round treacherous shallows.
  船一下象流星随着怒涛冲去，一下又绕着险滩迂回浮进。
• The results have shown that the leakage poisonous gas veers the movement orientation of air and the concentration distribution are closely concerned with the factors such as the air velocity, inhibition of the building, velocity of the poisonous and so on.
  结果表明，泄出气体的主运动方向沿大气流动方向发生偏转，气体浓度分布区的范围和形状主要与大气主流风速的大小、建筑物阻挡作用和气体泄出速度等因素相关。
• In other words: what is so different about German Cinema, and how can we appreciate it precisely for the ways in which it veers from the "dominant" convention?
  换句话说：德国电影的独特之处为何，如何精确地欣赏偏离主流传统的电影？
• So when the tornado veers off its path.
  所以当龙卷风偏离预测的路线时。
• Her image veers towards the untidily romantic.
  她的形象变得风流多情，不修边幅。