wry

英 [ra?] 美[ra?]

TEM8GRE低頻詞常用詞匯

比較級(jí):?wryer;?wrier;最高級(jí):?wryest;?wriest;副詞:?wryly;名詞:?wryness;

1. see wrench.
2. wrong => wry.
3. wrong => wry, wring.
4. 錯(cuò)誤就是歪曲了正確的方向，所以離正確越來(lái)越遠(yuǎn)。

wry 啼笑皆非的，揶揄的

來(lái)自PIE*wer,彎，轉(zhuǎn)，詞源同wring,wriggle。引申義扭曲的，啼笑皆非的。

wry: wry: [16] Wry means literally ‘twisted’ (many other English words beginning with wr-, such as wrist and writhe, share the same basic meaning). It comes from the now obsolete verb wry ‘deviate, twist’, which was descended from Old English wrīgian ‘turn, tend in a particular direction’. Wriggle [15] is probably related.
=> wriggle
wry (adj.): 1520s, "distorted, somewhat twisted to one side," from obsolete verb wry "to contort, to twist or turn," from Old English wrigian "to turn, bend, move, go," from Proto-Germanic *wrig- (cognates: Old Frisian wrigia "to bend," Middle Low German wrich "turned, twisted"), from PIE *wreik- "to turn" (cognates: Greek rhoikos "crooked," Lithuanian raisas "paralysed"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). Of words, thoughts, etc., from 1590s. The original sense is preserved in awry.

2. She cast a wry glance in her grandmother's direction.: 她朝奶奶無(wú)可奈何地瞟了一眼。

3. This book is suffused with Shaw's characteristic wry Irish humour.: 這本書(shū)充滿(mǎn)了蕭伯納獨(dú)特的愛(ài)爾蘭式幽默與嘲諷。