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veer

verb
🔊/vɪə(r)/
🔊/vɪr/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they veer
🔊/vɪə(r)/
🔊/vɪr/
he / she / it veers
🔊/vɪəz/
🔊/vɪrz/
past simple veered
🔊/vɪəd/
🔊/vɪrd/
past participle veered
🔊/vɪəd/
🔊/vɪrd/
-ing form veering
🔊/ˈvɪərɪŋ/
🔊/ˈvɪrɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] + adv./prep. (especially of a vehicle尤指车辆) to change direction suddenly突然变向；猛然转向 synonym swerve
    • The bus veered onto the wrong side of the road.公共汽车突然驶入了逆行道。🔊🔊
    • It is still not clear why the missile veered off course.目前尚不清楚导弹为何偏离航向。
    Extra Examples
    • He veered left towards them.他向左转朝他们冲过去。
    • The car veered off the road.汽车偏离了路面。
    • The missile veered wildly off course.导弹猛地转向，偏离了轨道。
    • The path veers sharply to the right.道路急转向右。
    • The plane veered away to the left.飞机突然调转方向往左侧飞去。
    • The ship veered round wildly in the rough sea.船在波涛汹涌的大海上颠簸里忽左忽右。
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • sharply
    • wildly
    • (to the) left
    • …
    preposition
    • between
    • from
    • off
    • …
    phrases
    • veer close to something
    See full entry
  2. [intransitive] + adv./prep. (of a conversation or way of behaving or thinking说话、行为或思想) to change in the way it develops偏离；改变；转变
    • The debate veered away from the main topic of discussion.争论脱离了讨论的主题。🔊🔊
    • His emotions veered between fear and anger.他的情绪变化不定，一会儿恐惧一会儿生气。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • The play veers from loopy comedy to serious moralizing.这部戏从怪诞的喜剧转成了严肃的道德说教。
    • His poetry veered dangerously close to sentimentalism.他的诗风陡然转至近乎伤感多愁，这种改变很危险。
    • He veered between the extremes of optimism and pessimism.他时而极度乐观，时而悲观绝望。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • sharply
    • wildly
    • (to the) left
    • …
    preposition
    • between
    • from
    • off
    • …
    phrases
    • veer close to something
    See full entry
  3. [intransitive] + adv./prep. (specialist) (of the wind风) to change direction改变方向
    • The wind veered to the west.风向转西。🔊🔊
    4. Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French virer, perhaps from an alteration of Latin gyrare, from Greek guros ‘a ring’.