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To sidle is to walk towards someone or something slowly and quietly, as if you would rather not be noticed. You do not march up. You often come a little from the side, body turned a bit, taking small steps. People sidle up to a group they want to join without making a fuss. A shy person might sidle towards the door. A cat can sidle towards a fish bowl. It is not a stiff formal word, and it is not slang; you meet it in stories. Though actually, it can sound a little guilty even when the person is only shy. “He sidled over” often makes you think: what does he not want us to see? There is a noun too (a sidle), taken from the verb, but the verb is the one you will hear.
側身走近；悄悄湊過去
組成side + -le, a little ending that means “keep doing it.” It may have been pulled out of the older word sideling (“in a sidelong way”), as if that word were someone sidling. The noun comes from the verb.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Sidlename
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A surname.
sidleverb/ˈsaɪdl/
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To (cause something to) move sideways.
- [F]rom the circle of delighted auditors listening to the gentillesses of the pink cockatoo, who was sidling on his stand in the sunshine, a whole party of the Beresfords caught sight of me, and in a minute I was surrounded; [...]
- The mare never moved; but after immense weight had been placed on both, the horse began to sidle, and before the last bag could be put on him, he sunk on his knees; it was put on the mare, and she bore it, never moving her posture until she was unloaded.
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In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner.
- There was one little prim old lady, of very smiling and good-humoured appearance, who came sidling up to me from the end of a long passage, [...]
- A small lad, with a large head and faded yellow hair, sidles up to you, and says something about "Ing'n work," or "Cur'osities," or "Cam'ra 'bscura," or "Guide." You give some sharp, quick answer; the small boy collapses and vanishes.
sidlenoun/ˈsaɪdl/
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An act of sidling.
- [I]n this mythic America, we fly along in the fast lane, placing bets against flashing lights in the rearview mirror, against the dreaded sidle into the gravel and the voice at the window demanding our license.
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An act of sidling.
- Listener up there! Here you … what have you to confide in me? / Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, / Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
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。