sheer
- adj.
- 绝对的，全然的，纯粹的，透明的，峻峭的
- vi.
- 偏转，偏航
- vt.
- 使急转向，使偏航
- adv.
- 完全，全然，峻峭
- n.
- 偏航
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演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 shere
- 继承自 ←古英语 sċǣre “pure, sheer; shining, clear”
- 继承自 ←原始日耳曼语 *skairiz
- 继承自 ←中古英语 schyre
- 继承自 ←古英语 sċīr “clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure”
- 继承自 ←中古英语 skyr
- 源自 ←古诺尔斯语 skírr “pure, bright, clear”
- 继承自 ←原始日耳曼语 *skīriz “pure, sheer”
- 源自 ←原始印欧语 *(s)ḱeh₁y- “luster, gloss, shadow”
词源说明
From Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; shining, clear”), from Proto-Germanic *skairiz; supplanted the semantically close shire (dialectal), from Middle English schyre, schire, shire, shir, from Old English sċīr (“clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure”), beside which existed Middle English skyr, from Old Norse skírr (“pure, bright, clear”), both from Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“luster, gloss, shadow”).
Cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“sheer”), German Low German schier (“sheer, pure, unadulterated”; “completely, almost”), Dutch schier (“almost”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs, “clear, lucid”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian hir (“grace, beauty; goodwill”).
释义（英文）
- (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
- (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
- (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
- Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
- Very steep