一群擠在一起的人(名詞)
名詞這一族就是核心畫面本身:把焦點放在「那團人」上。從擠在一處的陌生人群,到彼此認識的小圈子,再到泛指的普通大眾,差別只在這團人之間熟不熟、特不特別。
crowd of people · noun · A2
A large group of people who have come together in one place.
人群
核心畫面
You can picture a place packed with many people pressed together in one spot — a square, a station, a concert floor. The single idea under crowd is 'lots of bodies filling one space', and both the noun (the mass of people) and the verb (to pile into a place) grow straight out of that.
可以想成一個地方擠滿了人,大家挨在一塊兒、把空間塞得滿滿的——廣場、車站、演唱會的場子都是。crowd 底下就一個畫…更多收起
可以想成一個地方擠滿了人,大家挨在一塊兒、把空間塞得滿滿的——廣場、車站、演唱會的場子都是。crowd 底下就一個畫面:「一大堆人塞進同一個空間」。名詞講的是那團人,動詞講的是人往裡擠,全都從這個「擠」的畫面長出來。Two branches
擠進、塞滿一個空間(動詞)
動詞這一族把核心畫面變成動作:人(或東西、念頭)往一個空間裡塞,塞到滿、塞到擠。從實際的場地,延伸到腦袋,再到逼近別人身體的那種擠。
gather in numbers · verb · A2
If people crowd somewhere, they gather there in large numbers and fill the place.
擠進
原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crowdverb詞源 1/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/
- 1
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- The man crowded into the packed room.
- 2
To press together or collect in numbers.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- [T]he whole company closed their ranks, and crowded about the fire.
- 3
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- […]The Time (miſ-order’d) doth in common ſence / Crowd vs, and cruſh vs, to this monſtrous Forme, / To hold our ſafetie vp.
- 4
To fill by pressing or thronging together
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- 5
To push, to press, to shove.
- They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
- Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
- 6
nauticaltransportTo approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- 7
nauticaltransportTo carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing, fights ’gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea’s landlessness again; for refuge’s sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!
- 8
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
crowdnoun詞源 1/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/
- 1
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
- Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
- 2
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
- 3
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;
- […]To fool the crowd with glorious lies,[…]
- 4
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
- We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.
crowdnoun詞源 2/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/
- 1
dialectalA fiddle.
- That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]
- […]wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.
crowdverb詞源 2/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/
- 1
obsoleteTo play on a crowd; to fiddle.
- Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。