manoeuvre: [18] Essentially manoeuvre and manure [14] are the same word. Both go back ultimately to a Latin expression denoting ‘manual labour’. This was manū operārī, literally ‘work with the hand’. It was lexicalized in medieval Latin as the verb manuoperāre, and this passed into Old French as manovrer. Middle English took it over via Anglo-Norman mainoverer as maynoyre or manour, which at first was used for ‘administer land’, and more specifically ‘cultivate land’.
Not until the mid 16th century did the noun manure, denoting ‘dung spread in cultivating the land’, emerge. Meanwhile Old French manovrer developed into modern French manoeuvrer, which English borrowed in the 18th century. => manual, manure, operate
manoeuvre
also manoeuver, alternative spelling of maneuver. Also see oe; -re. Related: manoeuvres; manoeuvred; manoeuvring.
雙語例句
1. With an election looming, he has little room for manoeuvre.
隨著大選臨近，他幾乎沒有什么回旋的余地了。
來自柯林斯例句
2. We attempted to manoeuvre the canoe closer to him.
我們試圖讓獨木舟靠他更近一些。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Some analysts believe he has made a canny political manoeuvre.
一些分析家認為，他的這一政治舉措很高明。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The clutter of ships had little room to manoeuvre.
船只橫七豎八地擠在一起,幾乎沒有多少移動的空間.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. Her withdrawal from the contest was a tactical manoeuvre.