c. 1200, "to depart, go make off; turn away or aside;" c. 1300, "to turn aside, deviate from a straight course;" in form from Old English sweorfan "to rub, scour, file away, grind away," but sense development is difficult to trace. The Old English word is from Proto-Germanic *swerb- (cf Old Norse sverfa "to scour, file," Old Saxon swebran "to wipe off"), from PIE root *swerbh- "to turn; wipe off." Cognate words in other Germanic languages (cognates: Old Frisian swerva "to creep," Middle Dutch swerven "to rove, roam, stray") suggests the sense of "go off, turn aside" might have existed in Old English, though unrecorded. Related: Swerved; swerving.
swerve (n.)
1741, from swerve (v.).
例文
1. Nothing will swerve him from his aims.
何も彼に目標を変更させることはできません.
2.He did not swerve a hair 's breadth from the decision he had made.
彼は自分が下した決定を少しも変えなかった。
3.He swung the car to the left and that swerve saved Malone 's life.
彼は車のヘッドを左に向けた。これでマロンの命が助かった。
4.The driver had ample time to brake or swerve and avoid the woman.
運転手はその女性を避けるためにブレーキや急カーブをする時間が十分にある。
5.Neither riches nor honours can corrupt him ; neither poverty nor humbleness can make him swerve from principle ; and neither threats nor forces can subdue him.