drive1 /draɪv/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tensepst drove /drəʊv $ droʊv/, past participlepp driven /ˈdrɪvən/) 1 OPERATE A VEHICLEvehicle 车辆 a) [intransitiveI, transitiveT]TTC to make a car, truck, bus etc move along 开车,驾驶drive to/down/off etc I am planning to drive to Morocco next year. 明年我打算驾车去摩洛哥。
the man driving the car 开车的男子
So when did you learn to drive? 那么你是什么时候学会开车的?
Bye! Drive carefully! 再见!开车小心!
He drives 12 miles to work. 他驾车12英里去上班。
He drives (=has) a BMW estate. 他开一辆宝马旅行车。
b) [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] if a car, truck etc drives somewhere, it moves there 〔车〕行驶 After the accident, the other car just drove off. 出事后另外一辆车径自开走了。
c) TRAVEL SOMEWHERE[intransitiveI]TTC if people drive somewhere, they travel somewhere in a car 开车去 Shall we drive or take the bus? 我们开车去还是坐公共汽车去?
drive to/down/off etc They drove back to Woodside. 他们开车回到了伍德赛德。
d) TAKE somebody SOMEWHERE[transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]TTC to take someone somewhere in a car, truck etc 驾车送〔人〕 She drove Anna to London. 她开车送安娜去伦敦。
I’ll drive you home. 我来开车送你回家。
drive yourself I drove myself to hospital. 我自己开车去了医院。
2 FORCE somebody/somethingmake SB move 使某人移动 [transitiveT] to force a person or animal to go somewhere 驱赶,驱使,迫使…去〔某处〕 Torrential rain drove the players off the course. 滂沱大雨迫使选手们离开了赛场。
With a few loud whistles, they drove the donkeys out of the enclosure. 随着几声响亮的哨声,他们把驴子赶出了围栏。
3 FEELINGmake SB do STH 驱使某人做某事 [transitiveT] to strongly influence someone to do something 迫使,促使〔某人做某事〕drive somebody to do something The detective wondered what had driven Christine to phone her. 警探不明白是什么原因促使克里斯蒂娜打电话给她。
drive somebody to/into something The noises in my head have nearly driven me to suicide. 我脑子里乱七八糟的声音几乎逼得我要自杀。
Phil, driven by jealousy, started spying on his wife. 菲尔在嫉妒心的驱使下开始暗中监视他的妻子。
4 make SB/STH be in a bad state 使某人/某物处于糟糕状态 [transitiveT] to make someone or something get into a bad or extreme state, usually an emotional one 迫使,逼得〔某人或某物处于极糟糕的状态〕drive somebody crazy/nuts/mad/insane (=make someone feel very annoyed) 把某人逼疯 This cough is driving me mad! 咳嗽快把我逼疯了!
drive somebody crazy/wild (=make someone feel very sexually excited) 使某人性欲亢奋
drive somebody up the wall/out of their mind (=make someone feel very annoyed) 使某人非常生气
drive somebody to distraction/desperation The mosquitoes drive me to distraction. 蚊子搞得我心烦意乱。
drive somebody/something into something The factory had been driven into bankruptcy. 这家工厂被迫破产。
5 HIThit/push STH into STH 把某物钉入某物 [transitiveT] to hit or push something into something else 将…敲[打]入drive something into something We watched Dad drive the posts into the ground. 我们看着爸爸把木桩打入地里。
She drove her heels into the sand. 她鞋跟踩进了沙子里。
6 make SB work 逼某人工作 [transitiveT] to make a person or animal work hard 驱使,逼迫〔人或动物拼命干活〕drive yourself Don’t drive yourself too hard. 别把自己逼得太狠了。
7 sports 体育运动 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] a) to move a ball etc forward in a game of baseball, football, golf etc by hitting or kicking it hard and fast 〔在棒球、足球、高尔夫球等运动中〕猛击,猛踢,猛抽(球) He drove the ball into the corner of the net. 他一脚抽射,球直挂网窝。
b) to run with the ball towards the goal in sports such as basketball and American football 〔篮球、美式橄榄球等中〕带(球)前进 →5 see picture at 见图 golf 8 PROVIDE POWERprovide power 提供动力 [transitiveT]TP to provide the power for a vehicle or machine 为〔车辆或机器〕提供动力petrol-driven/electrically-driven/battery-driven etc a petrol-driven lawn mower 汽油驱动的割草机
9 rain/wind etc 雨/风等 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] if rain, snow, wind etc drives somewhere, it moves very quickly in that direction 〔雨、雪等〕猛下;〔风〕猛吹,猛刮 The rain was driving down hard. 雨下得很猛。
10 drive a coach and horses through something DESTROYto destroy an argument, plan etc completely 彻底推翻某事,摧毁某事 〔指论点、计划等〕 The new bill will drive a coach and horses through recent trade agreements. 这项新法案将彻底推翻最近达成的贸易协定。
drive a coach and horses through something• But how useful would such a right be anyway, if an intelligence agency can drive a coach and horses through it?• Callinicos drives a coach and horses through postmodernism; well and good. 11 MAKE A HOLEmake a hole 钻洞 [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]TI to make a large hole in something using heavy equipment or machinery 〔用重型设备或机器〕钻〔大洞〕 They drove a tunnel through the mountains. 他们开凿出一条穿山隧道。
12 drive something home CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTANDto make something completely clear to someone 使某事明白无误 He didn’t have to drive the point home. The videotape had done that. 他不用详细解释,录像带里已说得很清楚了。
drive ... point home• But it took the problem of cross- border sewage pollution to really drive the point home.• He didn't have to drive the point home. 13 drive a wedge between somebody DISAGREEto do something that makes people disagree or start to dislike each other 挑拨某人之间的关系,离间某人,使某人不和 I don’t want to drive a wedge between you and your father. 我不想破坏你和你父亲的感情。
drive a wedge between somebody• The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.• She'd driven a wedge between herself and Guy.• Instead of driving a wedge between lovers, a child can expand and deepen that love.• Such opposition to bureaucratic intrusion drove a wedge between many working-class people and the Fabian socialists.• It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.• The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.• The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.• The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.• The war had driven a wedge between the President and his liberal supporters.• Romley's lawsuit drove the wedge even farther between the two former friends. → drive/strike a hard bargain at hard1(18)n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 4: to make someone or something get into a bad or extreme state, usually an emotional onephrasesdrive somebody crazy/mad/insane spoken (also drive somebody nuts spoken informal) (=make someone feel very annoyed)The continuous noise was driving me crazy.
drive somebody crazy/wild (=make someone feel very sexually excited)He drives women wild.
drive somebody up the wall/round the bend/out of their mind spoken informal (=make someone feel very annoyed)That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
drive somebody to distraction (=make someone feel very upset or annoyed)She was being driven to distraction by her husband’s bad habits.
drive somebody to despair/desperation (=make someone despair)Escalating personal debts have driven many people to despair.
drive somebody to drink (=make someone so annoyed or upset that they depend on alcohol)His problems had almost driven him to drink.
14 drive at something phrasal verbphr v what somebody is driving atSAY the thing someone is really trying to say 某人说话的真正意图 SYN get at I still couldn’t understand what Toby was driving at. 我还是没弄懂托比到底想说什么。
15 drive somebody ↔ away phrasal verbphr v FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto behave in a way that makes someone leave 赶跑〔某人〕 He was cruel because he wanted to drive me away. 他很残忍,因为他想把我赶跑。
16 drive something ↔ down phrasal verbphr v BBTPEto make prices, costs etc fall quickly 〔迅速〕压低,降低〔价格、成本等〕 We have to drive down costs. 我们必须把成本降下来。
drive down• She went out to talk to her son Bill, who had driven it down.• They're still at the stage where they have to drive the van down from Manchester themselves.• But we must drive inflation down so low that it no longer affects the decisions made by ordinary people, businesses and government.• Waite slammed his drive long and down the left side of the fairway.• The cattle were driven up and down the steep hill each spring and fall, well into the early 1940s.• Four nights, and on the fifth we drove you down To the Emergency Room.• We had finished the drive back down to the highway from Can - yon de Chelly in record time.• Hunger and a need for sea air drove Ruth down to the Puerto de Pollensa. 17.drive somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v to hit the ball so that another player can score a run in baseball 〔棒球击球〕使跑垒得分drive in• In the winter he was driven back in again.• So Fogarty drove them in, and Jack checked Kiki in at the Saulpaugh to get her away from the farm.• Denver had two drunken driving arrests in Colorado and was to be tried on one of those charges in January.• The only people who drive luxury saloons in East Oxford are drug dealers who do karate with their rottweilers to relax.• Jeanne drives Sophie around in her car.• We continue our drive towards Hollywood in silence, because there's nothing else to say about Dudley Moore.• As the tour will doubtless prove, what drives them crazy in Stourbridge holds good elsewhere.• It feels as if days have gone by in the ten hours since they drove this route in the opposite direction. 18 drive off phrasal verbphr v b) FORCE somebody TO DO something drive somebody ↔ off to force a person or animal to go away from you 赶走某人[动物] We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders. 我们在院子里养了几条狗防止外人闯入。
drive off• Eddie ran out of the house, jumped into his car, and drove off.• Someone had smashed into her car, and then just driven off.• Adrian just had time to see his father jump into the truck and drive off in a cloud of dust. 19 drive somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v a) FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto force someone or something to leave 迫使〔某人或某物〕离开 Downtown stores are being driven out by crime. 犯罪活动使得巿中心的商店一家家搬走了。
b) written to make something stop existing 使消失 As we went forward, our fear was driven out by horror. 我们走上前去,这时担心变成了恐惧。
drive out• S. ambassador to the country that drove him out 40 years earlier.• Finally a bee drove the goats out.• It scores especially because most people most of the time don't drive flat out.• One of the friends, Manuel Cabrera, said he tried to grab Jamie but the intense heat drove him out.• He'd offered to pick her up and drive her out here.• Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running.• He was helped by Athena to drive them out of their coverts, and as they flew up he shot them.• We drove way out past Reno, to the old Fielding place. 20 drive something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v BBTPEto make prices, costs etc rise quickly 迫使〔价格、成本等〕快速上升 The oil shortage drove gas prices up by 20 cents a gallon. 石油短缺使得每加仑油价上涨了20美分。
drive up• People panicked when it was cold and it drove the market up.• There were a lot of cars parked in the drive and up and down the road.• I drove slowly up the road, not wishing to overtake the white police car.• His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope.• S. policy drives the mullahs up the wall.• He drove her up to Fordham Road.• They told me to get in the squad car and we drove right up to it.• Depending on where your drive ends up you will face a tricky second shot to a long, narrow green.