bulldoze
英 ['b?ld??z]
美['b?ldoz]
- vt. 強迫；恫嚇；用推土機清除
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?bulldozes;過去式:?bulldozed;過去分詞:?bulldozed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?bulldozing;
中文詞源
bulldoze 鏟平，強迫
bull, 牛。doze, 給予，見donate，捐贈，給予。即給不聽話的牛一頓打。
英文詞源
- bulldoze (v.)
- by 1880, from an earlier noun, bulldose "a severe beating or lashing" (1876), literally "a dose fit for a bull," a slang word referring to the intimidation beating of black voters (by either blacks or whites) in the chaotic 1876 U.S. presidential election. See bull (n.1) + dose (n.). Related: Bulldozed; bulldozing.
雙語例句
- 1. The party in power planned to bulldoze through a full socialist programme.
- 執(zhí)政黨打算強制推行一個全面的社會主義方案。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. My parents tried to bulldoze me into going to college.
- 父母千方百計逼迫我去上大學。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Last week, the department's road builders began to bulldoze a water meadow on Twyford Down.
- 上個星期，這個部門的筑路機開始將特懷福德丘陵地帶的浸水草甸推平。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. She defeated developers who wanted to bulldoze her home to build a supermarket.
- 她打敗了那些想推倒她家房屋興建超市的開發(fā)商們。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Was she going to try to bulldoze him into submission?
- 該 的東西!她想把他壓服 嗎 ?
來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹