crowd

【发音】

美 /kraʊd/ 英 /kraʊd/

【翻译】

1. n.人群；一伙人；大众

   英释:a large group of people who have gathered together to do something, for example to watch something or protest about something

【记忆】

crow(乌鸦) ＋ d → 像乌鸦一样成群的→群

【短语】

1. a crowd of : 一大群；许多的

2. crowd out : vt. 挤出；推开

3. crowd into : 涌入；挤入

4. a large crowd of : 一大群的

5. follow the crowd : 随大流

6. crowd around : 围拢，聚集在…周围

7. crowd behavior : 群众行为

8. capacity crowd : 观众满座；爆满

【例句】

1. A vast crowd gathered in the main square.

   主广场上聚集了一大群人。

2. She mingled with the crowd of guests, exchanging greetings.

   她穿梭在宾客中间和他们打招呼。

3. Saturday’s game was watched by a capacity crowd (= the maximum number of people that a sports ground etc can hold ) .

   星期六的比赛座无虚席。

4. Troops fired tear gas and shots to disperse a crowd of 15,000 demonstrators.

   军队发射催泪弹并开枪来驱散15,000名示威群众。

5. I didn’t know him; he wasn’t one of the usual crowd.

   我不认识他，他不是平时那一群人里的。

6. He wanted to go unnoticed, to be one of the crowd.

   他想默默无闻地做个普通人。

【真题例句】

1. (2015.12 • CET4 • 第二套 • 阅读理解)...Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking...

【同、近义词】

1. vt.挤满；将…塞进；催逼，催促

   burst at the seams/be packed with/

2. n.人群；一堆；一帮

   lot/band/

3. vi.拥挤，挤；聚集

   concentrate/pile/collect/mass/pack/

【同根词】

1. adj

   crowded : 拥挤的；塞满的

2. v

   crowded : 拥挤（crowd的过去分词）