jostle

英 [ˈdʒɒsl]

美 [ˈdʒɑːsl]

v.  (在人群中)挤，推，撞，搡

现在分词：jostling　过去式：jostled　过去分词：jostled　第三人称单数：jostles　复数：jostles　

IELTSTEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.11490 / COCA.13188

短语用例

jostle for sth

• 争夺；争抢
  to compete strongly and with force with other people for sth
  1. The visiting president was jostled by angry demonstrators.
     到访的总统受到愤怒的示威者的推搡。
  2. People were jostling, arguing and complaining.
     人们推推搡搡，争吵着抱怨着。

牛津词典

verb

• （在人群中）挤，推，撞，搡
  to push roughly against sb in a crowd
  1. The visiting president was jostled by angry demonstrators.
     到访的总统受到愤怒的示威者的推搡。
  2. People were jostling, arguing and complaining.
     人们推推搡搡，争吵着抱怨着。

柯林斯词典

• VERB （在人群中）挤，推，推搡
  If peoplejostleyou, they bump against you or push you in a way that annoys you, usually because you are in a crowd and they are trying to get past you.
  1. You get 2,000 people jostling each other and bumping into furniture...
     2,000个人互相推推搡搡，撞在家具上。
  2. We spent an hour jostling with the crowds as we did our shopping...
     我们购物的时候，花了1个钟头在人群中挤来挤去。
  3. She was cheered and clapped by tourists who jostled to see her.
     那些拥挤着想见她一面的游客们朝她欢呼鼓掌。
• VERB 争抢，争夺（关注、奖赏等）
  If people or thingsare jostling forsomething such as attention or a reward, they are competing with other people or things in order to get it.
  1. ...the contenders who have been jostling for the top job...
     一直在争夺这一高级职位的竞争者们
  2. There is a wide spread of stories jostling for coverage on today's front pages.
     有大量各种题材的报道争着上今天报纸的头版。

英英释义

noun

• the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)
  Synonym:jostling

verb

• come into rough contact with while moving
  1. The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train
  Synonym:shove
• make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving
  1. We had to jostle our way to the front of the platform

双语例句

• They fear being caught between Washington and Beijing as the superpowers jostle for political and economic influence.
  他们担心陷入美中两个超级大国的政治和经济影响角力当中。
• I would spread it all at the queen's Road Central at noon and watch the pedestrian jostle with the money fiercely& that would be fun!
  中午时，我会全数撒下在皇后大道中，看著人们贪心地，如狼似虎地争夺它们－那一定有趣至极！
• An assassin grimly carries his mission through the jostle of a carnival.
  一个行刺的人趁着狂欢节的熙熙攘攘，冷酷无情地去执行任务。
• Is television the only medium in which vastly dissimilar messages jostle against one another?
  电视是唯一一个迥异信息相互冲突的媒介吗？
• The sector is experiencing unprecedented activity as local and foreign groups jostle to raise capital or strike deals to capture a larger slice of the world's fastest-growing markets for life assurance.
  作为全球增长最快的寿险市场，亚洲寿险业正处于前所未有的交易活跃期，本土和外来保险集团争相筹措资本或签订交易，以期获得更大的市场份额。
• Instead, he will head a messy government by committee where rival generals will jostle to control him.
  相反，他将通过一个委员会来领导混乱的政府在这个委员会中，相互争斗的高官会争夺对他的控制权。
• A few minutes later, all the students jostle for space around the microscope table set up near the stream and call out over one another: A leech!
  所有的学生都挤在小溪边的显微镜桌子旁边，与别的研究小组相互交流：一条水蛭！
• She was cheered and clapped by tourists who jostled to see her.
  那些拥挤着想见她一面的游客们朝她欢呼鼓掌。
• Messengers who jostle pedestrians on the sidewalk. They broke asunder, sidling out of their benches, leaping them.
  在人行道上与行人挤来挤去的送信人他们忽然散开来，有的侧身从凳子前挤出去，有的从上面一跃而过。
• As boats jostle for space on the lake, fishermen are getting desperately worried about their livelihoods.
  由于船要争夺湖上的位置，一些渔民极其担心他们的生计问题。