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To careen is to rush forward with little control, swinging suddenly from side to side — a car careening down a hill, a cart careening round a corner. That is the meaning you will meet in news and stories, especially American ones. Though actually, that was not the first job of the word. It came from French carène, “keel,” from Italian carena, from Latin carīna, the keel of a ship. Sailors careened a ship when they tipped it on its side to and the bottom. Usage writers long said the wild-rush meaning belonged to career, a different verb (from a ), and that careen should stay with ships. American English has largely taken the rush-and-swerve sense anyway; many British writers still prefer career for that rush. Both the old ship sense and the modern rush sense are real. Do not treat careen and career as one word.
橫衝直撞、失控地衝（舊義：把船側過來修船底）
組成First attested in the late 16th century, from French carène (“keel”), from Italian carena, from Latin carīna (“keel of a ship”). Doublet of carene and carina.
同家族的字
- carinaa doublet: the same Latin carīna “keel”; in the body, a keel-shaped ridge
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
careenverb/kəˈɹiːn/
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nauticaltransportTo heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
- However, to avoid ſome inconveniencies relating to port duties, which would have been demanded in the port of Canton, and could not, in honour to the British flag, be complied with by us, he adviſed Mr Anſon to put into the harbour of Typa, about ſix miles from Macao, where he might careen his ſhip without diſturbance ; and actually ſent us a pilot to conduct us ſafe to the intended birth.
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nauticaltransportTo tilt on one side.
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To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
- They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening.
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To tilt or lean while in motion.
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To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
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To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
- The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side and turned end-over-end down Lower Main until it exploded in flames...
- He tries for a lot of things, careening wildly from earnest romance to feel-good comedy to hackneyed suspense, all the while leaving it up to the audience to suss out the moral complexity and existential terror underneath the glossy surface.
careennoun/kəˈɹiːn/
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nauticaltransportThe position of a ship laid on one side.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。