Cram

[kræm]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam.

(verb.) study intensively, as before an exam; 'I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam'.

(verb.) put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; 'cram books into the suitcase'.

編輯:汤姆--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.

(v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

(v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.

(v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

(v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.

(n.) The act of cramming.

(n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.

(n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

克莱夫整理

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Stuff, gorge, glut, fill full, fill to repletion.[2]. Crowd, press, compress.

v. n. [1]. Eat to satiety, eat greedily.[2]. [Colloquial.] Study for examination.

桃乐茜編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Stuff, choke, squeeze, ram, pack, gorge

ANT:Disgorge, vent, discharge, unload, unpack, eviscerate, empty, eliminate

艾米編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to press close: to stuff: to fill to superfluity: (slang) to make believe false or exaggerated tales: to teach for a special examination only giving instruction useful for passing that examination.—v.i. to eat greedily: to get up a subject by cram:—pr.p. cram′ming; pa.p. crammed.—n. a crush: (slang) a lie: information that has been crammed: the system of cramming.—adjs. Cram′-full; Cram′mable; Crammed.—n. Cram′mer one who prepares students for examination by cramming them.

校對:佩里