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traversable

/trav-ers, truh-vurs/US // ˈtræv ərs, trəˈvɜrs //UK // (ˈtrævɜːs, trəˈvɜːs) //

可穿行,可遍历,可遍历的,可穿越

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v.有主动词 verb
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    trav·ersed, trav·ers·ing.

    • : to pass or move over, along, or through.
    • : to go to and fro over or along.
    • : to extend across or over: A bridge traverses the stream.
    • : to go up, down, or across at an angle: The climbers traversed the east face of the mountain.
    • : to ski across.
    • : to cause to move laterally.
    • : to look over, examine, or consider carefully; survey; consider.
    • : to go counter to; obstruct; thwart.
    • : to contradict or deny.
    • : Law. to deny formally.to join issue upon.
    • : to turn and point in any direction.
v.无主动词 verb
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    trav·ersed, trav·ers·ing.

    • : to pass along or go across something; cross: a point in the river where we could traverse.
    • : to ski across a hill or slope on a diagonal.
    • : to turn laterally, as a gun.
    • : Fencing. to glide the blade toward the hilt of the contestant's foil while applying pressure to the blade.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act of passing across, over, or through.
    • : something that crosses, obstructs, or thwarts; obstacle.
    • : a transversal or similar line.
    • : a place where one may traverse or cross; crossing.
    • : Architecture. a transverse gallery or loft of communication in a church or other large building.
    • : a bar, strip, rod, or other structural part placed or extending across; crosspiece; crossbar.
    • : a railing, lattice, or screen serving as a barrier.
    • : Nautical. the zigzag track of a vessel compelled by contrary winds or currents to sail on different courses.each of the runs in a single direction made in such sailing.
    • : Fortification. a defensive barrier, parapet, or the like, placed transversely.a defensive barrier thrown across the terreplein or the covered way of a fortification to protect it from enfilade fire.
    • : Gunnery. the horizontal turning of a gun so as to make it point in any required direction.
    • : Machinery. the motion of a lathe tool or grinding wheel along a piece of work.a part moving along a piece of work in this way, as the carriage of a lathe.
    • : Surveying. a series of intersecting surveyed lines whose lengths and angles of intersection, measured at instrument stations, are recorded graphically on a map and in numerical form in data tables.Compare closed traverse.
    • : Law. a formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the other side.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : lying, extending, or passing across; transverse.

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Examples

  • This walk led us across some of the ski trails, where one of the young men who had been drinking heavily, the best man, in fact, decided to climb a pole supporting the ski lift and then traverse the wire to the next pole, hand over hand.

  • While traversing a snowfield, though, Forrest twisted his knee.

  • Modernized snowshoes are made of metal and plastic, but the addition of dull crampons on their underside allows you to traverse larger hills.

  • To capture that idea of a winter that is agreeably entrenched, I keep returning to Robert Frost’s poem of a guy traversing a New England woodland on a dark night illuminated by snow.

  • Highway 212 traverses the Lamar Valley, where you’ll find some of the park’s finest wildlife watching.

  • Roads, traversable by artillery and excellent for cavalry, ran thence in every direction.

  • The northern Quarken is covered with traversable ice every third or fourth year.

  • Most of Toledo is traversable only for pedestrians and donkeys.

  • The Heimliche Acht is a presentment not traversable by the offender.

  • Traversable, traversing and traversed have also the accent on the first syllable.