throng

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throng1 /θrɒŋ $ θrɒːŋ/ noun [countableC] written

CROWDa large group of people in one place 一大群人；人群 SYN crowd

She got lost in the throng.

她在人群中迷路了。

throng of

a throng of excited spectators

一大群興奮的觀衆

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throng• a throng of reporters• On December 22, Don Nicolas Bravo arrived, to be received by a great throng of people.• Dressed in town clothes and wraparound shades, they stand out from the throng of tribal dress and ochre bodies.• Taking a breath, Calipari smiles and wades into the throng, chatting amiably as he obliges each request.• A glimpse of a tall black-haired man on the edge of the throng sent sudden excitement sky-rocketing.• This led her to stare straight towards Rupert Green and his companion who still waited on the outskirts of the throng.• Corbett did not stay but pushed through the throng of people and walked on.• They passed into West Chepe where the throng was greatest.• Animals and carts moved along the dusty road with the throng of refugees.• The throng greeted Sutter with cheers and applause.• She remembered the tea-time throng before the war, when she was ten and working illegally in the Biscuit Factory near Bridgeton.

throng of• a throng of reporters

throng2 verb

1 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep, transitiveT]CROWD if people throng a place, they go there in large numbers 〔人群〕蜂擁而至，群集，擠滿〔某地〕

Tourists thronged the bars and restaurants.

遊客擠滿了酒吧和餐館。

2 be thronged with somebody/something BUSY PLACEif a place is thronged with people or things, there are a lot of them there 〔某地〕被某人/某物擠滿

The streets were thronged with Christmas shoppers.

街道上擠滿了聖誕購物者。

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be thronged with somebody/something• The streets were thronged with eager men and women rushing here and there as incidents called them.• Its steep sides are thronged with Goblin strongholds and its rocky slopes overlay caves and tunnels that are riddled with evil creatures.• The sun was shining, and the docks at Liverpool were thronged with people.• The lower deck, shining clean now, was thronged with steerage passengers.• It is thronged with the scarves of London clubs.• The canals are thronged with tour buses, the bridges festooned with banners.• These days, his Back Bay studio is thronged with waltz-challenged future bridegrooms slow-footing their first box steps.• Now its innocence had vanished, and it was thronged with worldly-wise urban people intent upon sophisticated urban undertakings.

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throng• Tens of thousands of fans thronged St Peter's Square to glimpse the pair.• In any event, hundreds upon thousands thronged the city.• Student protesters thronged the plaza outside the administration building.• They throng the streets and mini-timbered buildings of Gumnutland in their hundreds.• People thronged to the midnight service, as if the manger were the last way station on earth.• At last they reached the village and joined the rest of the crowd as they thronged towards the green in front of the parish church.• The streets were thronged with eager men and women rushing here and there as incidents called them.• Its steep sides are thronged with Goblin strongholds and its rocky slopes overlay caves and tunnels that are riddled with evil creatures.

Origin throng1

Old English thrang, gethrang

throng1 nounthrong2 verb

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