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.
双语例句
1. With an election looming, he has little room for manoeuvre.
随着大选临近，他几乎没有什么回旋的余地了。
来自柯林斯例句
2. We attempted to manoeuvre the canoe closer to him.
我们试图让独木舟靠他更近一些。
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3. Some analysts believe he has made a canny political manoeuvre.
一些分析家认为，他的这一政治举措很高明。
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4. The clutter of ships had little room to manoeuvre.
船只橫七竖八地挤在一起,几乎没有多少移动的空间.
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5. Her withdrawal from the contest was a tactical manoeuvre.
