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If something hurtles, it moves or falls very fast, usually with force, and often as if it might not stop in time. A truck hurtles down the hill. Stones hurtle past. A train hurtles through the night. The word likes big, heavy, or dangerous things, though a small object can hurtle too if the speed is wild. You can hurtle as a person: she hurtled round the corner. It is a little dramatic — news and stories love it; you would not say you hurtled to the fridge for a snack unless you were joking. There is a rare noun, a hurtle, meaning that kind of rush, but you will almost always meet the verb. Though actually, it is not hurl. To hurl a stone is to throw it. To hurtle is to travel at speed yourself (or itself). They look like neighbours, and both have force in them, but you cannot swap them.
猛衝；疾駛；呼嘯而過
組成From an old sense of hurt meaning “to knock or strike,” plus the little ending -le, which here means the action keeps happening. So the picture underneath is repeated knocking as something rushes along. Today’s hurt (pain) is historically the same root; hurtle kept the old “crash / rush” meaning.
同家族的字
- hurtsame old root: to knock or strike; hurtle kept the rushing sense, while hurt kept the pain sense
原始詞典資料13 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。
hurtleverb詞源 1/ˈhɜːtl̩/
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archaicliteraryTo propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
- He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
- Soone as thoſe glitterand armes he did eſpye, / That vvith their brightneſſe made that darknes light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye, / And threaten batteill to the Faery knight; […]
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archaicliteraryTo cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.
- Only in solitude could that strong man give way to his emotions; and at first they rushed forth so confused and stormy, so hurtling one the other, that hours elapsed before he could serenely face the terrible crisis of his position.
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archaicliteraryTo attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
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literaryTo move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.
- The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
- Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
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archaicliteraryOf a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to collide together; to clash.
- Yet could not all that force and furie ſhake / The valiant champions, nor their perſons vvound, / Together hurtled both their ſteedes, and brake / Each others necke, the riders lay on ground: / But they (great maſters of vvars dreadfull art) / Pluckt forth their ſvvords and ſoone from earth vp ſtart.
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archaicliteraryTo make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.
- The noiſe of Battell hurtled in the Ayre: / Horſſes do neigh, and dying men did grone, / And Ghoſts did ſhrieke and ſqueale about the ſtreets.
- Now the Storm begins to lovver, / (Haſte, the loom of Hell prepare,) / Iron-ſleet of arrovvy ſhovver / Hurtles in the darken'd air.
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archaicliteraryOf two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle.
hurtlenoun詞源 1/ˈhɜːtl̩/
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literaryAn act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
- I flung closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, flings to sheathe; / And, in that hurtle of united souls, / The mystic motions which in common moods / Are shut beyond our sense, broke in on us, […]
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literaryA rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
- [T]he war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.
- Jamba has removed from [Christopher] Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials – even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
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literaryA sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
- There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.
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literary(Violent) disagreement; conflict.
hurtlenoun詞源 2/ˈhɜːtl̩/
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obsoleterareliterarySynonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”).
- Vaccinia nigra, the blacke VVhortle, or Hurtle, is a baſe and lovve tree, or vvoodie plant, bringing foorth many branches of a cubite high, ſet full of ſmall leaues, of a darke greene colour, […]
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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。