英:['eərt]
美:['eərt]
英:['eərt]
美:['eərt]
Verb
1. channel into a new direction;
"redirect your attention to the danger from the fundamentalists"
Noun Middle English (Scots) art, from Scottish Gaelic àirt
The first known use of airt was in the 15th century
1 Heavy the darkness in every airt,— Her feet may slip, she cannot find the path: Her glance beguiles each living thing Lakshmī comes in human form!
2 But even as she spoke there was an opening in the clouds and the wind was “wearing round to the right airt,” for the promise of a fair day, and it was early yet.
3 Poem 155. airts: quarters; row: roll; shaw: small wood in a hollow, spinney; knowes: knolls.
4 Of a' the airts* the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west; For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best.
5 Empty the temple, empty the lover, Empty each airt, empty all!
6 You're in a dreary airt of the house," he said apologetically, "but I hope you may find it not uncomfortable.
7 A corps of MacNicolls, arrant knaves from all airts, worse than the Macaulays or the Gregarach themselves, do not come banging at the burgh door of Inner-aora at this uncanny hour for a child's play.
8 Watch and guard of the four airts was he besides.
9 The wind had been continuously for a week in the eastern airt, and a raid from his heathen fellow-countrymen seemed inevitable, since Providence appeared to be tempting them with opportunity.
10 Her distress diminished and her indignation increased as she reflected on the airt whence the unfavorable report reached her; the brothers were such peculiar men!
11 We know not in what airt to look for him, for who knows but it may now be afternoon?
12 We get 'a' the airts the wind can blow' up here.
13 High they flew in circles overhead, and, each choosing his own airt, darted out to the four regions of the world to bear the news of that crowning.
14 “We have done with that I make no insinuations about the woman, if it be proper not to do so. I speak of what airt your own judgment is to be.”
15 My informant believed himself above superstition, yet he related this as evidence of the truth of the black airt.
16 There was a son of Burns there, Major Burns whom Macready knows—he sung "Of all the airts", "John Anderson", and another song of his father's.
17 They kept a wise eye on the cloud formations, summing up the wind, and the strength of it, and what airt it was coming from.
18 She did not know that Pitt had changed places with his bride, and that his broad shoulder was shielding her from the “angry airt.”
19 Look here all around you in what airt ye will.
20 There is the turnpike road—the great north and south road—for it is either the one or the other, according to the airt towards which you, choose to turn your face.
1 方向
directional -wise way set run course hand range sense setting direction lie wind lay prospect orientation drift heading line step channel trend quarter exposure vector bearing