manoeuvre

英 [m?'nu?v?] 美

CET6TEM8中低頻詞暢通詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?manoeuvres;過去式:?manoeuvred;現(xiàn)在分詞:?manoeuvring;

manoeuvre 調(diào)遣，操控

來自法語manoeuvre,調(diào)遣，操控，來自拉丁語manu operari,用手操作，來自manu,手，詞源同manual,operari,操作，詞源同operate.原用于軍事術(shù)語調(diào)兵遣將，后詞義通用化。

manoeuvre: manoeuvre: [18] Essentially manoeuvre and manure [14] are the same word. Both go back ultimately to a Latin expression denoting ‘manual labour’. This was manū operārī, literally ‘work with the hand’. It was lexicalized in medieval Latin as the verb manuoperāre, and this passed into Old French as manovrer. Middle English took it over via Anglo-Norman mainoverer as maynoyre or manour, which at first was used for ‘a(chǎn)dminister land’, and more specifically ‘cultivate land’.

Not until the mid 16th century did the noun manure, denoting ‘dung spread in cultivating the land’, emerge. Meanwhile Old French manovrer developed into modern French manoeuvrer, which English borrowed in the 18th century.
=> manual, manure, operate
manoeuvre: also manoeuver, alternative spelling of maneuver. Also see oe; -re. Related: manoeuvres; manoeuvred; manoeuvring.

1. With an election looming, he has little room for manoeuvre.: 隨著大選臨近，他幾乎沒有什么回旋的余地了。

2. We attempted to manoeuvre the canoe closer to him.: 我們?cè)噲D讓獨(dú)木舟靠他更近一些。

3. Some analysts believe he has made a canny political manoeuvre.: 一些分析家認(rèn)為，他的這一政治舉措很高明。

4. The clutter of ships had little room to manoeuvre.: 船只橫七豎八地?cái)D在一起,幾乎沒有多少移動(dòng)的空間.

5. Her withdrawal from the contest was a tactical manoeuvre.: 她退出比賽是一個(gè)戰(zhàn)術(shù)策略.