wry

• adj. 歪斜的，扭歪的；歪曲的
• vt. 扭曲；扭歪
• vi. 扭曲；扭歪

來自PIE*wer,彎，轉，詞源同wring,wriggle。引申義扭曲的，啼笑皆非的。

wry

wry: [16] Wry means literally ‘twisted’ (many other English words beginning with wr-, such as wrist and writhe, share the same basic meaning). It comes from the now obsolete verb wry ‘deviate, twist’, which was descended from Old English wrīgian ‘turn, tend in a particular direction’. Wriggle [15] is probably related.
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wry (adj.)

1520s, "distorted, somewhat twisted to one side," from obsolete verb wry "to contort, to twist or turn," from Old English wrigian "to turn, bend, move, go," from Proto-Germanic *wrig- (cognates: Old Frisian wrigia "to bend," Middle Low German wrich "turned, twisted"), from PIE *wreik- "to turn" (cognates: Greek rhoikos "crooked," Lithuanian raisas "paralysed"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). Of words, thoughts, etc., from 1590s. The original sense is preserved in awry.

1. There is a wry sense of humour in his work.

他的作品帶有一種諷刺意味的幽默。

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2. She cast a wry glance in her grandmother's direction.

她朝奶奶無可奈何地瞟了一眼。

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3. This book is suffused with Shaw's characteristic wry Irish humour.

這本書充滿了蕭伯納獨特的愛爾蘭式幽默與嘲諷。

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4. Antony's wry smile disconcerted Sutcliffe.

安東尼的怪笑讓薩克利夫不知所措。

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5. Matthew allowed himself a wry smile.

馬修不由得苦笑了一下。

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