bulldoze
vt. 强迫, 用推土机推平/削平, 用推土机清除, 压倒, 威胁
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教材释义与例句
强迫;恫吓;用推土机清除
释义与例句
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1.
To destroy with a bulldozer.
He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
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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.
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3.
To push through forcefully.
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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.
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5.
To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
英国That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.
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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