early 14c., "pass across, over, or through," from Old French traverser "to cross, place across" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *traversare, from Latin transversare "to cross, throw across," from Latin transversus "turn across" (see transverse). As an adjective from early 15c. Related: Traversed; traversing.
traverse (n.)
"act of passing through a gate, crossing a bridge, etc.," mid-14c., from Old French travers, from traverser (see traverse (v.)). Meaning "a passage by which one may traverse" is recorded from 1670s. Military fortification sense of "barrier, barricade" is recorded from 1590s.
例文
1. I have no intention to traverse that ground in my present lecture.
今回の講演では、この点について詳細に議論するつもりはありません。
2.We traverse the desert by truck.
トラックで砂漠を横断する。
3.He cut his teeth in the sixties as director of Edinburgh 's Traverse Theatre.
彼は60年代にデビューしたばかりの頃、エディンバラのトラフス劇場で監督を務めていた。
4.But can you traverse the stream？
しかし、あなたはその車の洪水、人の洪水を乗り切ることができますか？
漢英文学から-現代散文
5.In a traverse ，afternoon reciprocal angles should be easy to arrange.