英语单词 | hustle |
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英美音标 | 英 ['hʌsl] 美 ['hʌsl] |
中文释义 | v.催促;赶紧做;推搡;<俚>(不正当)买卖;欺诈 n.忙乱;推搡;<俚>欺诈行为 |
英语例句 | (1) The mother hustled the children off to school and started working. (2) He hustled into and out of the office. (3) The thief was hustled off to gaol. (4) It seems that he enjoys the hustle and bustle of life in the big city. |
中文例句 | (1) 母亲打发孩子们赶快去上学,然后就开始干起活来。 (2) 他急匆匆地走进办公室,又匆匆离去了。 (3) 那窃贼被推推搡搡进入监房。 (4) 看起来他似乎很喜欢大城市的热闹繁忙的生活。 |
vocabulary简明 | To hustle something means to hurriedly push it along. If you overslept, you'll have to hustle out of the house to get to work on time. |
vocabulary扩展 | Hustle comes from the Dutch word for "shake" or "toss." As a noun, a hustle is a busy, hurried scene, like the hustle of the subway at rush hour. We also call the act of swindling a hustle, because it happens so fast. As a verb, hustle can either mean to swindle someone or to hurry them, or to work hard. You can hustle someone out the door. If you hustle, you can earn good tips as a waiter. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]猛推;猛拉;推搡 If you hustle someone, you try to make them go somewhere or do something quickly, for example by pulling or pushing them along. [V n prep/adv]
2 [VERB 动词]快速行走;赶紧 If you hustle, you go somewhere or do something as quickly as you can. [V] [V prep] [V to-inf]
3 [VERB 动词](常指用不正当或非法的手段)谋取;骗钱;诈取 If someone hustles, they try to earn money or gain an advantage from a situation, often by using dishonest or illegal means. [V] [V n [mainly AM 主美]
4 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]熙攘;忙碌 Hustle is busy, noisy activity.
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