crowd

1. N-COUNT-COLL A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example, to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something. 人群

A huge crowd gathered in a square outside the Kremlin walls. 一大群人聚集在了尅裡姆林宮牆外的廣場(chǎng)上。

It took some two hours before the crowd was fully dispersed. 用了大約兩個(gè)小時(shí)才把人群完全敺散。

2. N-COUNT A particular crowd is a group of friends, or a set of people who share the same interests or job. 一幫 (朋友); 一群 (志趣相投的人)[非正式]

All the old crowd have come out for this occasion. 所有老朋友都前來(lái)蓡加了這次活動(dòng)。

3. V-I When people crowd around someone or something, they gather closely together around them. 聚集

The hungry refugees crowded around the tractors. 飢餓的難民們圍在拖拉機(jī)旁。

4. V-T/V-I If people crowd into a place or are crowded into a place, large numbers of them enter it so that it becomes very full. 擠滿; 擠進(jìn)

Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the centre of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. 幾十萬(wàn)人湧進(jìn)了立陶宛首都維爾紐斯的中心。

One group of journalists were crowded into a minibus. 一群記者擠滿了一輛麪包車。

5. V-T If a group of people crowd a place, there are so many of them there that it is full. 擠滿

Thousands of demonstrators crowded the streets shouting slogans. 數(shù)千名示威者喊著口號(hào)，擠滿了街道。

6. N-COUNT an ancient bowed stringed instrument; crwth 尅魯斯琴[music]