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• vi. 倾侧，倾斜
• vt. 使倾侧，使倾斜
• n. 船的倾侧

本义将船倾斜，将龙骨外露进行修补，来自拉丁词carina, 龙骨，词源同hard. 后受career影响，词义主要用于疾驰。

careen

careen: [16] careen comes ultimately from carīna, the latin word for a ‘nutshell’, which is related to greek káruon ‘nut’ and sanskrit kárakas ‘coconut’. the idea of a ‘nut’ as a metaphor for a ‘boat’ is a fairly obvious one (shell is similarly used for a ‘rowing boat’), and the latin word came to be used for a ‘ship’s keel’, the raised seam of a walnut perhaps suggesting the line of the timber along the ship’s bottom.

it passed via the genoese dialect carena into french, where a vessel en carène was turned over on its side so that its keel was exposed; hence the verb. the equation of careen with career ‘go wildly’ is 20th-century and of american origin.

careen (v.)

1590s, "to turn a ship on its side" (with the keel exposed), from french cariner, literally "to expose a ship's keel," from middle french carene "keel" (16c.), from italian (genoese dialect) carena, from latin carina "keel of a ship," originally "nutshell," possibly from pie root *kar- "hard" (see hard (adj.)).

intransitive sense of "to lean, to tilt" is from 1763, specifically of ships; in general use by 1883. in sense "to rush headlong," confused with career (v.) since at least 1923. [to career is to move rapidly; to careen is to lurch from side to side (often while moving rapidly).] earlier figurative uses of careen were "to be laid up; to rest." related: careened; careening.

1. their ship was put into port to careen and refit.

他们的轮船被送入港口倾侧待修.

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