hunch
英语
[编辑]词源
[编辑]hunk的齿擦音变体，起源不确定。
或是派生自hump，经由早期中古英语*hunche、*humpchin，来自*hump + -chin, -chen (指小词后缀)，等同于hump + -kin。“预感，猜测”义据说源自过去赌博时摸驼背能带来好运的迷信。
发音
[编辑]名词
[编辑]hunch (复数 hunches)
- 突起，隆起的物体
- 驼背或弓身的姿势
- The old man walked with a hunch.
- 老头驼背走路。
- 预感，猜测，直觉
- I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.
- 我感觉他们会找到解决问题的方法。
- 块，团
- a hunch of bread ― 一团面包
- 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[1]:
- "The greedy little bastards! They had a 'unch of bread each when I 'ad my dinner."
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- 用手肘挤或推
同义词
[编辑]动词
[编辑]hunch (第三人称单数简单现在时 hunches，现在分词 hunching，一般过去时及过去分词 hunched)
- (不及物) 身体向前将肩膀隆起；弓身，驼背。
- 近义词：slouch、stoop、lean
- Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.
- 如果你不想得颈部问题，就不要在电脑前驼背。
- 1961, Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, New York: HarperPerenniel, 1994, Chapter 5, p. 156,[2]
- Sandy, you will never get anywhere by hunching over your putter, hold your shoulders back and bend from the waist.
- 1978, Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, New York: Ballantine Books, “… and many happy returns,” p. 76,[3]
- She rolled over and hunched into a fetal position.
- (及物) 抬起（肩膀）；向前弯曲（身体）
- They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes.
- 他们在门外一边站着，弓著背躲雨，一边抽著烟。
- He hunched up his shoulders and stared down at the ground.
- 他抬起肩膀，往地下盯着。
- 1672, Edward Ravenscroft, The Citizen Turn’d Gentleman, London: Thomas Dring, Act I, Scene 1, p. 4,[4]
- Danc[ing] Mast[er]. […] not too fast […] keep you[r] leg[s] straight, […] don’t hunch up your shoulders so;
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Part 2, Chapter 2,[5]
- If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed....
- 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, New York: Scribner, Chapter 17,[6]
- He would hunch his twisted body close and put out his gentle and crooked hand and touch the fawn.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, 1958, Chapter 10, p. 142,[7]
- They sat looking out at the dark, at the square of light the kitchen lantern threw on the ground outside the door, with a hunched shadow of Grampa in the middle of it.
- (不及物) 耸著肩膀走路
- 近义词：slouch
- 1955, J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, New York: Dell, Chapter 2, p. 9,[8]
- […] the figure hunched up the road.
- 1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Inspired Chicken Motel” in I Sing the Body Electric, New York: Knopf, p. 57,[9]
- […] once we had hunched in out of the sun and slunk through a cold pork-and-beans-on-bread lunch […] my brother and I found a desert creek nearby and heaved rocks at each other to cool off.
- 1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, Spatterlight Press, 2012, Chapter 18,[10]
- […] wheezing and grunting he hunched across the room.
- (及物) 隆起，使突出；弯曲（背等）。
- 1679, John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus, London: R. Bentley and M. Magnes, Act I, p. 6,[11]
- […] thou art all one errour; soul and body.
- The first young tryal of some unskill’d Pow’r;
- Rude in the making Art, and Ape of Jove.
- Thy crooked mind within hunch’d out thy back;
- And wander’d in thy limbs:
- 1679, John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus, London: R. Bentley and M. Magnes, Act I, p. 6,[11]
- (及物) 用手肘推或挤；对着某人推或挤。
- 1667, Roger L’Estrange (translator), The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, London: H. Herringman, “The Sixth Vision of Hell,” pp. 182-183,[12]
- After this, we saw a great Troop of Women upon the High-way to Hell, with their Bags; and their fellows, at their Heels, ever, and anon, hunching, and Justling one Another.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London: for the author, Volume 2, Letter 1, p. 8,[13]
- Hickman, a great over-grown, lank-hair’d, chubby boy, who would be hunch’d and punch’d by every-body; and go home, with his finger in his eye, and tell his mother.
- 1899, Sutton E. Griggs, Imperium in Imperio, Chapter 6,[14]
- He let his eyes scan the faces of all the white teachers, male and female, but would end up with a stare at the colored man sitting there. Finally, he hunched his seat-mate with his elbow and asked what man that was.
- 1974, Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name, New York: Bantam, 1975, Chapter 12, p. 40,[15]
- She hunched me and winked.
- 1986, Billy Roche, Tumbling Down, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1994, Chapter 6, pp. 102-103,[16]
- […] Crunch burst through, pretending to be in Croke Park or somewhere, hunching me away with his shoulder and holding the ghost of other players at bay as he picked up the football.
- 1667, Roger L’Estrange (translator), The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, London: H. Herringman, “The Sixth Vision of Hell,” pp. 182-183,[12]
- (不及物，口语) 预感或做出直观猜测
- 2010, Max Gunther, The Luck Factor:
- People who are instinctive hunchers go through some such process at every decision-making point of their lives. It is likely that children often make decisions and discern truths by hunching.
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