navigate

动词 v.
/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/    /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course. transitive
    — He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
  2. To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle. intransitive
    — You drive. I'll navigate.
  3. To travel over water in a ship; to sail. intransitive
    — We navigated to France in the dinghy.
  4. To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism. transitive
    — It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.
  5. To find a way through a difficult situation or process. ambitransitive,figuratively
    — However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.

词形变化

navigates present,singular,third-person navigating participle,present navigated participle,past navigated past

词源

First attested in 1588; borrowed from Latin nāvigātus, the perfect passive participle of nāvigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nāvis (“ship”) + -igō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).
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