bulldoze

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vt. 强迫, 用推土机推平/削平, 用推土机清除, 压倒, 威胁

发音

US /ˈbʊldoʊz/
AU
UK /ˈbʊldəʊz/

词形变化

bulldozed bulldozes 三单 bulldozes bulldozing bulldozing 现在分词 bulldozed 过去式 bulldozed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

强迫;恫吓;用推土机清除

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To destroy with a bulldozer.

    He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.

  2. 2.

    To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".

    英国

    He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.

  3. 3.

    To push through forcefully.

  4. 4.

    To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.

    Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.

  5. 5.

    To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.

    英国

    That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.

  6. 6.

    To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

    美国 过时 俚语

词汇关系

词源

From earlier bulldose (noun, literally “bull-dose, a dose fit for a bull”), equivalent to bull + dose.

来源:wiktionary