2BREAKto press something in order to break it into very small pieces or into a powder 搗碎,弄碎,粉碎
Crush two cloves of garlic.
搗兩瓣大蒜。
3crush a rebellion/uprising/revolt etcSTOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto use severe methods to stop people from fighting you or opposing you 平定叛亂/起義/反叛等SYN put down
The revolution was crushed within days.
幾天之内這場革命就被鎮壓了。
4.crush somebody’s hopes/enthusiasm/confidence etcDESTROYto make someone lose all hope, confidence etc 粉碎某人的希望/熱情/信心等
5UPSETto make someone feel extremely upset or shocked 使非常傷心;使震驚
Sara was crushed by their insults.
薩拉因他們的侮辱而非常傷心。
6crush on somebodyphrasal verbphr vAmerican EnglishAmE informalto have a feeling of romanticlove for someone, especially someone you do not know well 熱戀,迷戀〔尤指對不大熟識的人〕
crushed to death• In a crash your baby could be crushed to death.• Many of them were crushed to death.• The lad on its back, dolled up as King William, had been crushed to death against the wall.• Read in studio A labourer has been crushed to death by a cementlorry.• A zookeeper was crushed to death by a hippopotamus.• Read in studio A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event.• There are instances of people being crushed to death or pushed under trains by the crush of excursionists on station platforms.• The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roofdownwards.• He was crushed to death when the roof fell in.
crush2 noun
1[singular]CROWD a crowd of people pressed so close together that it is difficult for them to move 擁擠的人群
There’s always such a crush on the train in the mornings.
2[countableC]LOVE a strong feeling of romanticlove for someone, especially one that a young person has for someone older who they do not know well 尤指對年齡比自己大且並不熟識者的〕迷戀,癡情 → infatuation
She had a huge crush on her geography teacher.
她對地理老師非常迷戀。
It’s just a schoolgirl crush.
那只是小女生的一種癡情。
3[countableC]American EnglishAmE informal someone who you have a feeling of romantic love for, but who you do not know well 〔不大熟識的〕熱戀的對象,癡情的對象
had a ... crush on• His laughter stopped in the middle; he scowled as if four very bad eggs had been crushed on his head.• Lots of girlshad crushes on me - it was inevitable.• Years earlier, in Berlin, Claudia had had a serious crush on Sam McCready.• It turned out he had a crush on Carlo, too.• I think probably he had a little crush on me.• Playing a game of Truth with her brother, Marian realized that he had a crush on Amelia.• I was about 16 and I had a huge crush on him.• I had a crush on him.