Throng
[θrɒŋ] or [θrɔŋ]
解釋/意思:
(imp.) of Thring
(n.) A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
(n.) A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
(v. i.) To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
(v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
(v. t.) To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
(a.) Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.
埃弗雷特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Crowd, multitude, horde, press, host.
v. n. Crowd, press.
錄入:罗莎莉
解釋/意思:
n. a large number of people pressed or crowded together: a crowd: a great multitude.—v.t. to press or crowd: to annoy with numbers.—v.i. to crowd together: to come in multitudes.—adj. (prov.) crowded: busy.—adj. Throng′ful thronged.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Through the deep throng it could pass but slowly; the spirited horses fretted in their curbed ardour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The curtain drew up--shrivelled to the ceiling: the bright lights, the long room, the gay throng, burst upon us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Then, amid cheers of encouragement from the immense throng that was watching, he turned sharply past the starting-tower and flew between the flags that marked the starting-line. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The giddy throng passed and repassed before my eyes. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Sometimes we went up to London, and entered into the amusements of the busy throng; sometimes our retreat was invaded by visitors from among them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The streets were thronged with working people. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Here, under the quiet stars, these old streets seem thronged with the phantoms of forgotten ages. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Fifty would-be partners thronged round her at once, and pressed to have the honour to dance with her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This cabinet dazzled me, it was so full of light: it deafened me, it was clamorous with voices: it stifled me, it was so hot, choking, thronged. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- No youthful congregation of gallant-hearted boys thronged the portal of the college; sad silence pervaded the busy school-room and noisy playground. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Numbers of the men she knew already, and the dandies thronged round her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Tom had been standing wistfully examining the multitude of faces thronging around him, for one whom he would wish to call master. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Sharp, decisive speeches came thronging into her mind, now that it was too late to utter them. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Her pallet and easel were now thrown aside; did she try to paint, thronging recollections made her hand tremble, her eyes fill with tears. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was very strange to see thronging multitudes assembled in an artificial light again. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Many a night and many a day had its inmates listened to the echoes in the corner, with hearts that failed them when they heard the thronging feet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- With such schooling did my poor Idris try to hush thronging fears, and in some measure succeeded. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Warm from illuminations, and music, and thronging thousands, thoroughly lashed up by a new scourge, I defied spectra. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Such masses, such throngs, such multitudes of hurrying, bustling, struggling humanity! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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