| 词组 | heave |
| 释义 | heave In standard English heave has two past tense and past participle forms, heaved and hove. In nautical contexts hove is used. • ... cable can be hove in or veered under power — Great Britain Admiralty, Manual of Seamanship, 1951 • ... the vessel is hove ahead by the capstan or windlass —Carl D. Lane The Boatman's Manual, 1951 • We ... hove up the anchor —Roland Barker, Ships & the Sea, July 1953 • Aspinwall backed the foresail a bit and hove to on the starboard ... tack —Anthony Burgess, MF, 1971 • ... a small skiff that had just hove in sight —Nelson Bryant, N.Y. Times, 2 Jan. 1983 Hove is also used when the nautical meaning "to move in an indicated way" is borrowed for general contexts, especially in fixed phrases. • I hove to at the stripling's side —P. G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, 1946 • Towards the summit my two pathmakers hove in sight —W. K. M. Wood, Scots Mag, May 1958 • She first hove into view on a Family episode last season —Time, 25 Sept. 1972 • ... long before Mr. Agee hove on the horizon with a 46-page critique —Frederick Taylor, Wall Street Jour., 21 Aug. 1981 Other uses of hove are for the most part folksy or dialectal. • And in ploughing deep ... there was hove into the light of day a very large and dead-looking toad — Delia Lutes, The Country Kitchen, 1936 • ... whoever hove those things in here —Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, 1876 When a past tense or past participle is needed for heave in a context not involving nautical lingo, heaved is usually used. • ... the brakemen heaved large chunks of coal over the fence —Sherwood Anderson, Poor White, 1920 • ... boiling seas and burning mountains heaved and tossed —Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell, 1927 • The Sheriff heaved massively in the chair —Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men, 1946 • His stomach heaved —Marcia Davenport, My Brother's Keeper, 1954 • ... heaved a sigh of relief —Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now, 1966 • ... the Earth's crust was heaved up —Paul F. Brandwein et al., Concepts in Science, 1975 |
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