circumnavigate

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˌsə.kəmˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/    美 /ˌsɝ.kəmˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail. transitive
    — We circumnavigated the Mediterranean.
  2. To circumvent or bypass. transitive
    — Rebel of the tournament: Saudi Arabia’s Malek Al Hawsawi, who circumnavigated Fifa’s ban on jewellery by keeping his ring in his mouth.
  3. To sail around the world. intransitive
    — Patrick Childress, who solo circumnavigated on a Catalina 27 in 1982, stresses the value of eggs, which will keep at least six weeks if previously unrefrigerated and oiled with vegetable shortening.

词形变化

circumnavigates present,singular,third-person circumnavigating participle,present circumnavigated participle,past circumnavigated past

词汇关系

上位词
navigate
衍生词
circumnavigatory uncircumnavigated
相关词
circumnavigation circumnavigator navigate

词源

Borrowed from Latin circumnāvigātus, perfect passive participle of circumnāvigō (“sail round something, circumnavigate”), from circum (“about, around”) + nāvigō (“sail, navigate”), from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”). By surface analysis, circum- + navigate.
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