crowd /kraʊd/ CET4 TEM4 ( crowding, crowded, crowds )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT-COLL A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example, to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something. 人群

  例：

  A huge crowd gathered in a square outside the Kremlin walls.

  一大群人聚集在了克里姆林宫墙外的广场上。

  例：

  It took some two hours before the crowd was fully dispersed.

  用了大约两个小时才把人群完全驱散。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A particular crowd is a group of friends, or a set of people who share the same interests or job. 一帮 (朋友); 一群 (志趣相投的人) [非正式]

  例：

  All the old crowd have come out for this occasion.

  所有老朋友都前来参加了这次活动。

• 3. 

  V-I When people crowd around someone or something, they gather closely together around them. 聚集

  例：

  The hungry refugees crowded around the tractors.

  饥饿的难民们围在拖拉机旁。

• 4. 

  V-T/V-I If people crowd into a place or are crowded into a place, large numbers of them enter it so that it becomes very full. 挤满; 挤进

  例：

  Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the centre of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.

  几十万人涌进了立陶宛首都维尔纽斯的中心。

  例：

  One group of journalists were crowded into a minibus.

  一群记者挤满了一辆面包车。

• 5. 

  V-T If a group of people crowd a place, there are so many of them there that it is full. 挤满

  例：

  Thousands of demonstrators crowded the streets shouting slogans.

  数千名示威者喊着口号，挤满了街道。

• 6. 

  N-COUNT an ancient bowed stringed instrument; crwth 克鲁斯琴 [music]