with obj.
1- raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward使弓起; 使隆起(肩部):
he thrust his hands in his pockets, hunching his shoulders
他双手插在口袋中, 耸着肩
no obj. he hunched over his glass.他俯向他的玻璃酒杯。
1.1
- no obj. bend one's body into a huddled position团起身子:
I hunched up as small as I could.
我尽量把身子缩成一团。
1
- a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts基于直觉的想法; 预感:
she was acting on a hunch.
她是在凭直觉行动。
2
- a humped position or thing肉峰; 隆肉:
the hunch of his back.
他背上的肉峰。
3
- chiefly dialect a thick piece; a hunk〈主方〉厚片, 大块:
a hunch of bread.
一大块面包。
词源
late 15th cent.: of unknown origin. The original meaning was 'push, shove' (noun and verb), a sense retained now in Scots as a noun, and in US dialect as a verb. Sense 1 of the noun derives probably from a US sense of the verb 'nudge someone in order to draw attention to something'.