curve

英 [kɜːv] 美 [kɝv]

解释

※ 提供单词"curve"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

curve 曲线，弧度

来自PIE*sker, 弯，转，词源同ring, curly.

curve: curve: [15] Curve has a wide circle of relations in English. It comes from Latin curvus ‘curved’, which had connections with Greek kurtós ‘curved’, Greek korōnos ‘curved’ (source of English crown), and Greek kírkos ‘ring, circle’ (source of English circle). When English acquired it, it was still an adjective, and English did not convert it into a noun until the 17th century.
=> circle, crown, curb
curve (v.): early 15c. (implied in curved), from Latin curvus "crooked, curved, bent," and curvare "to bend," both from PIE root *(s)ker- (2) "to turn, bend" (see ring (n.)).
curve (n.): 1690s, "curved line," from curve (v.). With reference to the female figure (usually plural, curves), from 1862; as a type of baseball pitch, from 1879.

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1. Was it just a temporary blip on an otherwise healthy growth curve?: 这是否是原本良好的增长曲线中暂时的偏离？

4. There is a learning curve in the process of seeking employment.: 找工作有一个经验累积的过程。