One way to hold hurl: an arm swinging back and letting go, and something leaving your hand fast. There is nothing careful in it. The thing goes out and away, usually in a direction the sentence has to name — across the room, onto the sofa, into the bin — and often the person letting go is angry or in a hurry. Once you have that picture, the rest of the word is a question of what gets thrown: an object, a mouthful of angry words, your own body, or what is in your stomach.
From the word’s history
Middle English hurlen, of imitative origin — the word was built to sound like the movement. Hurry and hurtle come from the same family, and all three keep a sense of speed and force.
hurl 來自中古英語 hurlen，是一個擬聲來的字：它的聲音本身就在模仿那個猛力甩出去的動作。hurry（急）和 hurtle（疾飛）跟它同一家族，三個字都留著「快、猛、來不及細想」的味道，這正好對上今天 hurl 給人的感覺。
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原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hurlverb/hɜːl/
- 1
To throw (something) with force.
- Thou shalt have Preists immers’t in lust and gluttony And bishops three times married, thy cathedrals The Seats where Prayer and hospitality Should dwel, shall be the taverns Where Drunken bowles incessantly goe round In leud debauch and midnight dice are hurld, The beds wherein the wearied Pilgrim us’d To ease his crippled Limbs, he now shall find Possess’t with Women, nurses, she attandants, And a Dishonest brood of ugly children.
- I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.
- 2
To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
- The gangs hurled abuse at each other.
- Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.
- 3
To participate in the sport of hurling.
- Their cause was helped after the senior footballers were unexpectedly dumped out of the running for the Sam Maguire, meaning Aidan Walsh is available to hurl full-time with the young Rebels -- Walsh scored 1-1 in the semi-final victory over reigning All-Ireland champions Tipperary.
- 4
slangTo vomit.
- I shake and bake the world Rearrange like the chemical Jheri curl, drink til I hurl
- 5
obsoleteTo twist or turn.
- On Nicias a philosopher having his shoes stolen from him, may they, said he, fit his feet that took them away. A wish at the first view very harmless, but there was that in it which poisoned his charity into a malicious revenge. For he himself had hurled or crooked feet, so that in effect he wished the thief to be lame.
- 6
obsoleteTo move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
- 7
obsoleteTo convey in a wheeled vehicle.
hurlnoun/hɜːl/
- 1
A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
- He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
- The Gods, with horror and amaze, look’d down, Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent; Mountain on mountain thrown, With threatening hurl, that shook th’ aethereal [var.: aerial] firmament!
- 2
slangThe act of vomiting.
- Open the window! I've gotta take a hurl.
- 3
slangVomit.
- WAYNE: What I'd really like to do is something extraordinary. Something big. […] But I'll probably end up working at Great America, mopping up hurl and lung butter.
- 4
The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
- 5
slangA conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
- Maybe you can give me a hurl in the Bentley one day, when you're in the vicinity.
- 6
obsoleteTumult; riot; hurly-burly.
- 7
obsoleteA table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
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