詞彙精選：hurl的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

用力的投擲

v.

用力投擲，猛投，猛擲 [I,T]

例句：

At last they hurled huge stones at enemy's heads.

最後，他們用大石頭向敵人的頭上用力擲了過去。

例句：

I hurl a few more bottles after the first one, then the books after the bottles.

跟着第一個後面，我又猛投了幾個瓶子，然後瓶子之後是書。

大聲叫罵，憤慨地說出 [T]

例句：

How would you handle being locked in the back of a cab while the driver hurled abuse at you?

如果你被鎖在出租車後座又遭司機謾罵，你會怎麼辦？

例句：

She hurled her dissatisfaction.

她口氣激烈地說出了她的不滿。

二、詞義辨析：

throw,cast,fling,heave,hurl,pitch,toss

這些動詞均有“拋、投、擲”之意。throw普通用詞，使用廣泛，僅指用力拋擲，不涉及動作方式或感情色彩。cast常可與throw互換，指迅速扔出一個重量較輕的物體。fling指用力投擲，或因感情激動而粗暴地或漫無目的地扔東西。 heave指把重物舉起後扔出。hurl通常指用力投擲，動作迅猛，所投擲的距離也較遠。pitch指隨意地、輕輕地擲或扔，側重方向性和有明確的目標。toss指無什麼目的地、輕輕地、隨意地擲或扔，所扔擲的東西一般都比較輕。

三、參考例句：

As you hurl the rock, the canoe moves forward.

當你扔石塊時，小船會向前遊動。

He hurl all his book out from the window.

他把書全都扔出窗外。

The best way to forget your sadness is to hurl yourself into your work.

忘掉悲傷的最好方法是將自己投入到工作中去。

The young track and field athlete could already hurl the discus 60 yards.

這個年青的田徑運動員已能把鐵餅投擲60碼遠。

The ruffians have reached a dead end and will eventually hurl themselves into the net.

歹徒已走投無路，最終會自投羅網。

Angry youths across the region gathered to hurl rocks and chant "azadi!"

憤怒的年輕人投擲石頭，大聲疾呼道：azadi！

I hurl a few more bottles after the first one, then the books after the bottles.

跟着第一個後面，我又猛投了幾個瓶子，然後瓶子之後是書。

Professor Truscott said the skill depends on what angle the thrower chooses to hurl an object at, with the optimal for disc-shaped stones close to 20°.

特拉斯科特教授說打水漂的技術基於投擲者選取的投擲角度，就碟狀石子而言，最理想的投擲角度接近於20°。

A violent eruption can blow the top few kilometres off a mountain, scatter fine ash practically all over the globe and hurl rock fragments into the stratosphere to darken the skies a continent away.

一次猛烈的火山噴發能把山最上面的幾千米掀飛，能將細火山灰驅散到幾乎整個地球，能把碎石塊兒拋到大氣的平流層上，能使遠在一個大陸之外的天空變黑。