- 1擠爆的、人山人海的（偏英式口語）
In informal British English, if a place is heaving, it is packed with people — so full the room almost seems to move. The club was heaving. The station is heaving at half past six. Americans rarely use it this way; they say packed, crowded, or . The picture comes from heave: to rise and fall with effort, like your chest heaving when you are out of breath. A huge crowd makes a place look as if it is moving. You will hear this in speech, night-out talk, and British newspapers; it is too casual for a careful essay. Though actually, heaving is also just the ordinary -ing form of heave (lifting something heavy, or a stomach heaving). The full-of-people sense is the extra, lively one.
組成heave + -ing. Heave means to lift, or to rise and fall with force.
同家族的字
- heavethe verb this form comes from
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
heavingadj/ˈhiːvɪŋ/
- 1
informalCrowded with people.
- Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow,^([sic]) the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear.
- The pool was heaving with screaming kids. By contrast the beach was virtually deserted, apart from the one day a cruise ship docked & a group of about 10 people appeared.
- 2
Of the chest, rising and falling noticeably from exertion, emotion, or laboured breathing.
- 3
literaryOf the bosom, full, ample, or voluptuous in form, irrespective of movement.
- And here I might (if I followed the example of most travellers) launch out into a glowing description of the charms of these damsels, the elegant costumes they wore, and the gold and silver ornaments with which they were adorned. The jacket or body of purple gauze would figure well in such a description, allowing the heaving bosom to be seen beneath it, while "sparkling eyes," and "jetty tresses," and "tiny feet" might be thrown in profusely. But, alas!
- We also prefer the past, I think, despite the bloodshed and absence of analgesia, because we’re so relentlessly served our own history, from the medieval murk of King & Conqueror to the heaving cleavage of Bridgerton.
heavingnoun/ˈhiːvɪŋ/
- 1
An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.
- No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene."
- His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings.
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