| 正面 | 4909.crowd 英 [kraʊd]美 [kraʊd] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. trans- "across, over" + ire "go" (see ion) => transire "cross over, pass away, go over".2. transire => 过去分词:transitus => transit- => transit.3. => act or fact of passing across or through, public transporation, go or cross over.n. 群众,一伙;一堆,许多,大众v. 拥挤,挤满,挤进vt. 挤满,将...塞进;催促,催逼vi. 挤,拥挤,聚集 例句: 1. The crowd in Robinson's Coffee-House was thinning, but only by degrees.鲁宾逊咖啡屋里的人正在变少,但也只是渐少而已。 crowd 人群来自PIE*ger, 围,群,块,词源同cram, group. crowdcrowd: [OE] The notion underlying crowd is of ‘pushing’ or ‘pressing’ (a semantic element shared by throng and of course by the now obsolete use of press for ‘crowd’, and echoed in such current expressions as ‘there’s quite a crush in here’). The Old English verb crūdan meant simply ‘press’, and of its relatives Middle Dutch crūden meant ‘press, push’ and Middle High German kroten meant ‘oppress’. Old English also had a noun croda ‘crowd’, but this does not seem to be the direct ancestor of the modern English noun, which does not appear until as late as the 16th century, as a derivative of the verb.crowd (v.)Old English crudan "to press, crush." Cognate with Middle Dutch cruden "to press, push," Middle High German kroten "to press, oppress," Norwegian kryda "to crowd." Related: Crowded; crowding.crowd (n.)1560s, from crowd (v.). The earlier word was press (n.)." |
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