英语单词 | mob |
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英美音标 | 英 [mɒb] 美 [mɑːb] |
中文释义 | n.暴民;一伙;[贬]民众 vt.大举包围;蜂拥而入 |
英语例句 | (1) The mob rampaged through the village. (2) The speaker was roughly handled by the mob. (3) A mob of youths had been dogging me for some time. (4) More sinister is the involvement of the heavy mob. (5) Pop stars are always moaning about being mobbed by their fans. (6) The waiting newsmen mobbed forward. |
中文例句 | (1) 这伙暴徒在村中横冲直撞。 (2) 演说者受到暴民的粗暴对待。 (3) 一段时间以来一伙年轻人一直在尾随着我。 (4) 更危险的是众多无知民众的卷入。 (5) 流行歌星总是抱怨他们受到歌迷的包围。 (6) 等候的记者们蜂拥向前。 |
vocabulary简明 | A mob is a big, rowdy group of people. You might avoid shopping at the mall right before Christmas because you can't stand the mob of shoppers. |
vocabulary扩展 | A mob might gather around the piñata at a big birthday party or cluster in front of a music venue when tickets go on sale for a hugely popular concert. When people join one of these groups, you can also say that they mob, and "the mob" also sometimes refers to organized crime. You might describe the hundreds of people thronging the county fair on Friday night as a "mob scene." The Latin root, mobile vulgus, means "fickle common people." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]暴民;乌合之众 A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.
2 [N-SING 单数名词]大众(含贬义);(尤指)愤怒暴乱的群众 People sometimes use the mob to refer in a disapproving way to the majority of people in a country or place, especially when these people are behaving in a violent or uncontrolled way. [ [disapproval]
3 [N-SING 单数名词]黑社会;犯罪集团 You can refer to the people involved in organized crime as the Mob . [usu [INFORMAL 非正式]
4 [VERB 动词]团团围住;成群围住 If you say that someone is being mobbed by a crowd of people, you mean that the people are trying to talk to them or get near them in an enthusiastic or threatening way. [ [usu passive]
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