aberrate

读音

• /ˈæb.ə.ɹeɪt/ US

释义

1. 偏离，走偏，畸变

   intransitive

   Such, indeed, were the primitive regulations of the greater number of monastic institutions; but the abominable and luxurious indulgences into which they afterwards aberrated, the page of history amply unfolds.

   1812, John Brady, Clavis Calendaria, volume I, London, page 229:

   […] after all the Governor of a Southern state has got to try to act like he regrets having to aberrate from being a gentleman—

   1951，William Faulkner，Requiem for a Nun，New York：Vintage，1975 出版，「act 2, scene 2」，173–174頁：

2. 使...偏离，使...变形，使...畸变

   transitive

   He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.

   1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104,

   He and Phœbe had had a senseless quarrel […] and she had left. It was an aberrated fulfillment of her old jesting threat that if he did not behave himself she would leave him.

   1918，Theodore Dreiser，「The Lost Phœbe」，收錄於Free and Other Stories，New York：Boni and Liveright，122頁：

   Don’t imagine that there was any sudden and complete renunciation such as overcomes the luckless and often temporarily aberrated victim of a highly emotionalized revival meeting; this would have been, at best, but temporary.

   1934, Archibald Belaney, chapter 1, in Pilgrims of the Wild, London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, published 1935:

   As these monographs and as these occasional exhibition catalogues on some handful of Canadian Impressionists started to appear, once again, I was surprised (to say it with the utmost respect) that they were aberrated, there was no timeline, there was no continuity.

   2014年 12月5日，James Adams，「Group of who? A new book paints the fullest picture yet of Canada’s vision of Impressionism」，收錄於The Globe and Mail：