crowding [计] 拥挤, 聚集
- The full-back's kick carried 50 metres into the crowd.
後卫把球踢出50米远, 射入人群中. - Our team was leading60-0, but the crowd kept yelling,"Pour it on! "
我们队在60比0领先,但观众们仍不停地喊着“加油!” - The over-30 crowd.
超过30岁的族群
crowding[ noun ]
a situation in which people or things are crowded together
<noun.state>
he didn't like the crowding on the beach
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.
- As soon as it is over, the teen-agers crowding the back of the church kneel, cross themselves and head for the basement to dance.
- Yet alongside the fabled carpets, towels and brassware, such labels as Lacoste, Benetton and Levi Strauss are increasingly crowding the stalls.
- Companies are also crowding into so-called synthetic GICs created by banks and brokerage firms.
- The atom smasher's expected $5.9 billion cost could escalate, pushing it far behind schedule and crowding out other projects.
- Thousands of U.S. servicemen on rest and recreational leaves spent freely on women, liquor and temporary solace in the numerous bars crowding the district.
- National television showed the bloody faces of some people crowding one of its studios after apparently fleeing the fighting outside.
- I don't know how you can watch that." Balderas, who owns 30 houses in the area, blamed the crowding on a housing shortage.
- But it said it "shares concerns" about the index and the possibility of higher loan limits "crowding out the full development of a private secondary mortgage market."
- A spokesman for the Amman airport denied there was a crowding problem. "Everything is fine, the airport is not crowded," said Mashhour El-Kurashi.
- It said that as of April, 35 states and the District of Columbia were operating under court orders or consent decrees related to crowding.
- The Central Transport Consultative Committee, the rail system's statutory watchdog, said in its 1988 report that crowding had become an epidemic in the southeast.
- Now it's all free enterprise, and the private sector." Superblock Seven was planned as a suburb of state-subsidized housing south of Bogota for the masses of impoverished Colombians crowding into the city.
- But NBC's Mr. Eskridge maintains that the commercial crowding isn't hurting ratings.
- A master of the art might even learn to see all the honking and crowding as a path to enlightenment _ a sort of nirvana on wheels.
- To put this sum in context, the Treasury expects to collect only Pounds 40bn from value added tax in 1992-93. How can the government avoid crowding out other borrowers, when its own needs are so large?
- Those crowding Sotheby's rooms and telephone lines apparently could not.
- Rural crowding will get worse in the 1990s.
- Television footage showed weeping relatives crowding a Hualien police station.
- Christian Democratic spokesman Johannes Gester on Tuesday urged the government to create a fourth reception camp for Soviet bloc immigrants to ease crowding at the three facilities currently registering arrivals and provide initial assistance for them.
- Some of the refugees had spent weeks huddled in tents and on cots in the embassy compound amid growing crowding, spreading disease and worsening weather.
- Small airplanes crowding the skies over the whales prompted the FAA restriction.
- He reported hearing of runs on grocery stores while prices remain low, but journalists saw no unusual crowding at food stores in East Berlin.
- Officials began considering a new site again this year because of crowding.
- Some executives worry not only about military sales crowding out commercial financing, but also about the possibility that separate divisions within companies would have to compete for Ex-Im's limited resources.
- This policy, together with the high tax on the sale of houses, exacerbates urban crowding.
- "Manufacturers are crowding in," says a spokesman for the show.
- A hard-boiled egg is easiest to handle underwater, and brings thousands of multi-coloured fish crowding around your mask. People who have not dived often imagine it to be dark underwater, but the Red Sea is alive with light.
- It said Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had dispatched a senior envoy, Dieter Kastrup, to meet with Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jaromir Johanes to discuss the East Germans crowding Bonn's embassy there.
- Instead of demonstrating crowding out, these figures indicate a robust economy with a favorable climate for investment.
- "Fire ants appear to be attracted to electrical equipment and can cause shorts by chewing through insulation and by crowding into spaces around electrical contacts," the study said.