bulldozer

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n. 推土机 [化] 推土机

发音

US /ˈbʊlˌdoʊzɚ/
其它
UK /ˈbʊlˌdəʊzə/

词形变化

bulldozers 复数 bulldozers bulldozered bulldozering bulldozers 三单 bulldozering 现在分词 bulldozered 过去式 bulldozered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

    推土机

  2. 2.

    One who bulldozes.

  3. 3.

    A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.

    历史
  4. 4.

    A bully; an overbearing individual.

    引申义
v.
  1. 1.

    To bulldoze (demolish with a bulldozer).

  2. 2.

    To bulldoze (push through forcefully).

    They bulldozered through the crowd.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

dozer

上位词 1

tractor

下位词 1

angledozer

词源

Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The name for the earthmoving machine came later, figuratively, from that sense.

来源：wiktionary