huddle的意思|huddle的解释-里氏词典

Huddle \Hud"dle\, n.
A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a
confused manner; tumult; confusion. ``A huddle of ideas.''
--Addison.

Huddle \Hud"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Huddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Huddling}.] [Cf. OE. hoderen, hodren, to cover, keep, warm;
perh. akin to OE. huden, hiden, to hide, E. hide, and orig.
meaning, to get together for protection in a safe place. Cf.
{Hide} to conceal.]
To press together promiscuously, from confusion,
apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to
press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.

The cattle huddled on the lea. --Tennyson.

Huddling together on the public square . . . like a
herd of panic-struck deer. --Prescott.

Huddle \Hud"dle\, v. t.
1. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to
assemble without order or system.

Our adversary, huddling several suppositions
together, . . . makes a medley and confusion.
--Locke.

2. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do
imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or
adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle
together. ``Huddle up a peace.'' --J. H. Newman.

Let him forescat his work with timely care,
Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
--Dryden.

Now, in all haste, they huddle on
Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.
--Swift.

Mr Hopkins has designed two office buildings to replace the present huddle of low and indifferent buildings on Victoria Street.
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, says he'll huddle with fellow Democrats to discuss the future of U.S. policy in Angola, which is opposed by some prominent black Americans.
Most of the several thousand remaining students huddle near the Monument of Revolutionary Martyrs, but some move to the northern square to confront other troops.
The sales, on the heels of orders announced Thursday for 1.4 million tons of corn and 150,000 tons of soybean meal, come as U.S. and Soviet officials prepare to huddle next week in Moscow on grain trade between the two countries.
In Amman, knots of Asian refugees huddle under trees on empty lots, giving the flowered, comfortable capital an air of wartime despondency.
Kramer makes it painlessly symbolical: in a close huddle, the singing nuns (twice too many of them) advance slowly from furthest rear-stage, two or three of them faint dead at each audible crash of the blade, like flowers dropping from a bouquet.
Bush also will huddle Tuesday with Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and other officials to go over last-minute planning for the July 9-11 economic summit in Houston with the major industrialized nations.
Blanchard and the rest of a 15-member drafting committee will huddle on Mackinac Island, Mich., June 9-13 to draft the platform. The full 163-member committee will take it up in late June.
When the economy failed to overheat, when recession failed to keep its appointment, when the stock market reached a record high, they went into a huddle.
U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas said he would huddle for a few days with assistant prosecutors Joseph Duffy and Mark Rotert before deciding whether to seek another trial.
Barely a block from the White House, some of the city's homeless huddle on heating grates.
"If he can stay with the horse and huddle with it, he's got a chance.
Several workers huddle around a shiny new Volkswagen just purchased by a co-worker, while another group unloads modern office equipment from a truck.
Ministers attending the session agreed to huddle privately on Friday before opening OPEC's full winter conference on Saturday morning.
On Tuesday, Bush is to huddle with Thornburgh, drug policy director William J. Bennett and other top administration officials at the president's compound in Maine to discuss the drug strategy he will unveil Sept. 5.
Customers huddle around tiny tables in the boutique to drink 1,500-yen glasses of Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label champagne while munching on caviar and crackers.
The Democratic meeting followed a similar GOP meeting Thursday on campaign reform. Senators planned to huddle again in party caucuses next Tuesday.
But lure collectors like to huddle in corners, tell stories, and swap their Creek Chub Beetles."
He would huddle in a conference room to get a summary of how a multimillion-dollar deal was structured before he gave his approval.
Georgian Communist Party head Dzhumber Patiashvili said important representatives of each conference delegation will huddle after all 5,000 arrive in Moscow on Sunday.
They packed homes, all four churches and the high school gymnasium before spilling out into the town square and nearly every side street to huddle in their parked rigs and trailers.
Mr. Ayala's lawyer, Gary Freed, said that his client also is under investigation by the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution and that his client would be eager to huddle with the SEC to settle the case.
At the open-air theater on a hilltop north of town, some women have put on mink against the night breezes; others wear panne velvet jackets cinched with silver Indian concha belts; still others huddle like squaws under plain blankets.
The rest of those without shelter huddle in groups under bridges, sleep on sidewalks or stay in abandoned buildings or cars, she said.

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