athwart 的 2 个定义
- from side to side; crosswise.
- Nautical. at right angles to the fore-and-aft line; across.broadside to the wind because of equal and opposite pressures of wind and tide: a ship riding athwart.
- perversely; awry; wrongly.
- from side to side of; across.
- Nautical. across the direction or course of.
- in opposition to; contrary to.
athwart 近义词
against
更多athwart例句
- To dive was to escape the heat of this place, a geographic hot spot athwart the equator.
- The hyper-wealthy host of a popular cable-news show somehow still manages to stand athwart the establishment, fighting for truth in the face of a shadowy left-wing cabal.
- One hot summer afternoon, I carried her athwart my hips into the pool at our beach club in Long Beach, New York.
- Armstrong is standing athwart recent trends at the highest levels of corporate America.
- The New York governor was the foremost Democrat to stand athwart the Reagan Revolution.
- The new corporate social responsibility, redefined for libertarians, must stand athwart crony corporatism yelling "stop."
- Conservatives, to invoke William Buckley, have stood athwart this history yelling “stop!”
- How Robert Lipsyte, author of the new memoir An Accidental Sportswriter, stood athwart the sports page yelling, "Stop!"
- The glowing heavens, luminous athwart the clouds of fine, suspended sand, laid this ominous hint of dream upon the entire day.
- Silently the turnkey passes the cell, like a flitting mystery casting its shadow athwart a troubled soul.
- A hemlock had fallen athwart it, and they sat down where they could look out upon a majestic panorama of towering rock and snow.
- A few pines were sprinkled about the slopes of the gully, and one or two of them which had fallen lay athwart the creek.
- A trail of filmy vapor crawled out athwart the lower pines and covered them as it rolled rapidly upward.