tilt

英 [tɪlt] 美 [tɪlt]

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解释

vi. 倾斜；翘起；以言词或文字抨击
vt. 使倾斜；使翘起
n. 倾斜
n. (Tilt)人名；(英)蒂尔特

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中文词源

tilt 倾斜，倾侧，打击，抨击

来自古英语 tealt,倾斜的，不稳的，来自 Proto-Germanic*taltaz,倾斜，摇晃。引申词义倾斜，倾侧，可能进一步引申词义马上打斗，骑马比武，并抽象化为打击，抨击。

英文词源

tilt: tilt: [14] Tilt originally meant ‘fall over’; the sense ‘slant’ is not recorded before the 16th century. The word is probably descended from an unrecorded Old English *tyltan, whose ultimate source would have been the prehistoric Germanic adjective *taltaz ‘unsteady’ (ancestor also of Swedish tulta ‘totter’). Tilt ‘joust’ (first recorded in the 16th century) has traditionally been regarded as the same word, based presumably on the notion of making one’s opponent ‘fall over’, but this is not certain.
tilt (v.1): Old English *tyltan "to be unsteady," from tealt "unsteady," from Proto-Germanic *taltaz (cognates: Old Norse tyllast "to trip," Swedish tulta "to waddle," Norwegian tylta "to walk on tip-toe," Middle Dutch touteren "to swing"). Meaning "to cause to lean, tip, slope" (1590s) is from sense of "push or fall over." Intransitive sense "to lean, tip" first recorded 1620s. Related: Tilted; tilting.
tilt (n.1): "a joust, a combat," 1510s, perhaps from tilt (v.1) on the notion of "to lean" into an attack, but the word originally seems to have been the name of the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt in an earlier meaning "covering of coarse cloth, an awning" (mid-15c.). This is perhaps from tilt (v.1), or related to or influenced by tent. Watkins derives it from Old English teld "awning, tent," related to beteldan "to cover," from Proto-Germanic *teldam "thing spread out." Hence, also full tilt (c. 1600). Pinball machine sense is from 1934.
tilt (n.2): "condition of being tilted," 1837, from tilt (v.1).
tilt (v.2): "to joust," 1590s, from tilt (n.1). Related: Tilted; tilting. The figurative sense of tilting at windmills is suggested in English by 1798; the image is from Don Quixote, who mistook them for giants.
So saying, and heartily recommending himself to his lady Dulcinea, whom he implored to succour him in this emergency, bracing on his target, and setting his lance in the rest, he put his Rozinante to full speed, and assaulting the nearest windmill, thrust it into one of the sails, which was drove about by the wind with so much fury, that the lance was shivered to pieces, and both knight and steed whirled aloft, and overthrown in very bad plight upon the plain. [Smollett translation, 1755]

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例句和用法

1. Larry Layton's trial is going full tilt right now.: 拉里·莱顿一案的审判工作即将全面展开。

2. He continued to urge the Conservative Party to tilt rightwards.: 他继续力劝保守党要进一步右倾。

3. The 3-metre-square slabs are on a tilt.: 3平方米的厚板倾斜放置着。

4. She wore her hat at a tilt over her left eye.: 她歪戴着帽子遮住左眼.

5. The paper has done much to tilt American public opinion in favour of intervention.: 该报做了大量工作，使得美国舆论倾向于支持干涉。