| 单词 |
jibe |
| 释义 |
▪ I. jibe
variant of gibe n. and v., gybe v.
▪ II. jibe, v. Chiefly U.S.|dʒaɪb|
Also gibe.
[Origin obscure: perh. phonetically related to chime: see chime v. 8, 9 c.]
intr. To chime in (with); to be in harmony or accord; to agree.
1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 122 It however curricle-izes or gibes in but too well with the passing anecdotes of the day. 1855Doesticks xiv. 113, I attempting to sing the words of ‘Old Hundred’, while the lady played the Jenny Lind polka, which didn't seem to jibe. 1860Bartlett Americanisms 245 To jibe [ed. 1877 to gibe], to suit, agree, harmonize. 1871‘Mark Twain’ Screamers xxix, The piece you happened to be playing..didn't seem to gibe with the general gait of the picture that was passing at the time. 1894Nation (N.Y.) LIX. 311/1 The dislike..of Trilby's posing for the ‘altogether’, doesn't jibe with the author's authoritative declaration that to all artists..‘nothing is so chaste as nudity’. 1959[see gybe]. 1970New Yorker 28 Nov. 101/1, I didn't jibe with my mother as a personality, but there was no other woman..I could relate to. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 16 The first does not jibe with the patterning of meanings. |
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