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    To roust someone is to make them get up or get out of a place, often in a rough or sudden way. Police or guards might roust people from a station at night. You can roust a friend out of bed. It is informal, and you hear it more in American English than in careful school English. It is not a polite verb — there is a push in it. You roust a person from somewhere; you do not usually roust an idea. Though actually, it grew as a variant of rouse (to wake or stir), and it may have picked up a little of rout (to drive out), so the 'make them leave' feeling is stronger than plain 'wake them'.

    趕走、把人從某處攆走（口語，偏美式）

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組成A 1650s variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout ('to drive out').

同家族的字

  • rousethe older verb this is a variant of: to wake or stir
  • roustabouta labourer, built from this verb + about

原始詞典資料5 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。

roustverb詞源 1/ɹaʊst/

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    to rout out of bed; to rouse.

    • "Why didn't you roust me out?" / "Well, I tried to, but I couldn't; I couldn't budge you." / "Well, all right. Don't stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there's a fish on the lines for breakfast. I'll be along in a minute."
    • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Yesterday morn at 6:30 they rousted me up & gave me 2 shots in the behind.
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    informalTo harass, to treat in a rough way.

    • My client is an ex-convict. He's been constantly harassed by the police... subjected to extreme mental cruelty and public degradation. He's even been denied an adequate place to live! To be very blunt, gentlemen, my client has been thoroughly rousted.
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    slangTo arrest.

  • 4

    To drive strongly.

roustnoun詞源 2

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    A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.

    • At the north point of this island, called Ska, goes a very rapid current; like the Roust of Sumburghead

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。