That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

It's a kind of dare demonstrating not just his indifference to the crowd but in fact his scorn for it.

叶芝这种胆量,不仅说明他对大众的漠然,其实还是对它的蔑视。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Virgil alludes to just this passage in Homer when he describes the entrance of a whole crowd of people in to the underworld as "the falling of leaves in the early frost of autumn."

维吉尔只是在荷马中影射了这点,他描述了通往人群拥挤的地狱的入口,如同“在深秋严寒中无情飘落的叶子“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A crowd was gathered in front of a small wooden house by the river.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

There are a lot of people that can do work, and if you have a more efficient way to manage a large crowd of engineers, you can be very competitive in the technology world.

人们的工作能力毋庸置疑，如果你能够有效管理,一个大的团队，那么在这个领域，你的竞争力就提升了。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

A crowd of people were talking excitedly in front of a store.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

When he's a boy, he hears the crowd shouting outside of the royal palace in Paris.

他还是个孩子的时候,路易十四听到宫殿外面的骚乱

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Next was his historic run of 57 shows before a nightly crowd of 2,000 in the International Hotel's lavish showroom.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

You found, I don't remember his stagefright Well, I think there was one moment in his scene like he's standing in front of a crowd, it is supposed to be on a ship, I think.

我不记得他怯场,我想在他镜头中有一次,好想他站在一群人当中，我觉得应该是在一艘船上。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

It's 9 A.M.in city courtroom 676 and already a crowd of people facing foreclosure have lined up for a chance to keep their homes.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Renowned South African trumpeter, wowed the crowd with a rendition of Grazing in the Grass.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

In what critics deemed well-orchestrated political theater a controversial candidate abandoned further attempts to prevent arrest and turned himself in while a rowdy crowd of supporters cheered.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Hours later in Peshawar, officials say an attacker in a parked car threw a grenade at a crowd of people outside the Askari Bank before exploding in the car.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

Tea Party Express organizer Amy Kremer addressed a crowd of several thousand people on Pennsylvania Avenue and predicted the movement would bring change to Washington in November's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

In the course of one concert, we play for a larger live crowd than all but I think two or three orchestras in the entire country play for, over the entire year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

(Speaking in Polish) On one of Warsaw's popular party streets, young people crowd into a bar where everything from the derelict retro furniture to propaganda posters is designed to remind you of the 1970s.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Israel says its troops only used their pistols after they were attacked, and released a video showing soldiers in riot gear descending from a helicopter into a crowd of men with sticks and clubs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03