Crowd的意思|Crowd的解释-里氏词典

Crowd \Crowd\, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named
from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve.
Cf. {Rote}.]
An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of
violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played
with a bow. [Written also {croud}, {crowth}, {cruth}, and
{crwth}.]

A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
--B. Jonson.

Crowd \Crowd\, v. i.
1. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to
throng.

The whole company crowded about the fire. --Addison.

Images came crowding on his mind faster than he
could put them into words. --Macaulay.

2. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man
crowds into a room.

Crowd \Crowd\, n. [AS. croda. See {Crowd}, v. t. ]
1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together;
also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

A crowd of islands. --Pope.

2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close
body without order; a throng.

The crowd of Vanity Fair. --Macaulay.

Crowds that stream from yawning doors. --Tennyson.

3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the
rabble; the mob.

To fool the crowd with glorious lies. --Tennyson.

He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
--Dryden.

Syn: Throng; multitude. See {Throng}.

Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr[=u]dan; cf.
D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
1. To push, to press, to shove. --Chaucer.

2. To press or drive together; to mass together. ``Crowd us
and crush us.'' --Shak.

3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to
encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

The balconies and verandas were crowded with
spectators, anxious to behold their future
sovereign. --Prescott.

4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat
discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]

{To crowd out}, to press out; specifically, to prevent the
publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out
the article.

{To crowd sail} (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of
sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to
carry a press of sail.

Crowd \Crowd\, v. t.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] ``Fiddlers, crowd on.''
--Massinger.

Ahmed Shah, a guerrilla designated by the rebel alliance to head an all-rebel interim government, stood in the 95-degree heat and told the crowd his administration would soon move into Afghanistan. He gave no deadline.
The driver ran into a police station to escape the crowd that pursued him, but enraged citizens stormed the station, dragged him out and beat him unconscious, the state radio reported.
Police arrested 22 Jewish youths who were among a crowd of about 100 that moved toward Arab east Jerusalem, police spokesman Uzi Sandori said.
"We are anti-imperialist with Moscow and we are anti-imperialist with Washington," Pastora told the crowd at the adjacent Plaza of the Revolution.
I was about to step forth on a dare from my editor when a spaced-out blonde weaved out of the crowd.
I've got some magic tricks and I throw out cheap novelties to the crowd." He also juggles bowling pins. "Four is the most I can do, and three is plenty." Fred Young often plays drums shirtless, borrowing the idea from other drummers he's seen.
A deranged South Korean taxi driver deliberately mowed down 19 people in Seoul, then injured 17 more by driving into the crowd which gathered to help his victims.
It doesn't take much to create a crowd in Beijing, they said.
"So it has gotten this bad," sighs Marta Elena Alvarez, a peasant woman balancing a bag of corncobs on her head and a baby on her shoulder, as she watches the crowd inch toward the soldiers.
On Tuesday, he drew a crowd of thousands to a cove near Candlestick Park where he lay beached beside rocks bearing a no-trespassing sign.
In the Mahalia Jackson Room, the crowd was unusually still.
A teen-age boy is propelled by a surge in the crowd toward a young, frightened-looking policeman.
What's more, he's "not scary." That's how the Republican presidential nominee sized up President Reagan during an impromptu lunch with two fifth graders he plucked at random from a crowd at a downtown rally in Pekin, Ill.
Another drew grunts of approval from the crowd as she recalled Stalin's time, when goods were cheap and queues were short.
A half-dozen people can crowd into the largest room.
Some were burned beyond recognition when three Italian jets collided on a low-level stunt flight and one of them hurtled into the crowd in a ball of flame.
"Because he's a bum," shouted someone in the crowd.
In 1776, a Colonel John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd gathered at Independence Square in Philadelphia.
But the standing-room-only crowd was still after the final bid; there was no applause as is customary when a high price is paid for an artwork in which interest has been expressed prior to the sale.
The city's biggest and most costly security and crowd and traffic control operation was the October 1979 visit of Pope John Paul II. The two-day papal visit involved more than 13,000 city police officers and cost more than $3 million.
I missed the roar of the crowd and the loudness after a while.
After the Supreme Soviet adjourned for the day, Inter-Regional Group members caucused in a Kremlin sideroom dominated by a painting of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin haranguing a crowd on Red Square.
Where it once had to answer only to the timber industry, the service now has a crowd of watchdogs panting over its shoulder.
A local Sandinista political official with a bull horn exhorts the crowd to turn back.
The old structure of party and government was liquidated," Iliescu told a Bucharest crowd.
In fact, the feeling often is like a boxing match, with first one contender and then the other striking a blow for his or her life style or point of view while the crowd applauds.
The president's limousine was hit by an egg thrown from the crowd as his motorcade passed through Santiago streets.
Even the vintage car stand had failed to pull a crowd - except for the small boy who had wanted to know if the vehicle's owner had had the thing from new.
The strikers and the crowd sang the national anthem just before the shipyard gates swung open.
A crowd police estimated at more than 20,000 gathered nearby for a later rally protesting a blow by the national party leadership to the effort by Slobodan Milosevic, Communist Party chief of the Serbian republic, to gain more control over Kosovo.

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