throng
noun /θrɒŋ/
/θrɔːŋ/
(literary)- a crowd of people
聚集的人群；一大群人 - We pushed our way through the throng.
我们挤过人群。 - He was met by a throng of journalists and photographers.
他遇上了一群记者和摄影师。
- She was lost in the throng.
她在人群中迷失了方向。 - Shopkeepers were closing up and joining the throng in the streets.
店主们正在关门，加入街上的人群。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- assembled
- gathered
- join
- among/through the throng
- in the throng
- into the throng
- …
词源Old English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’. - We pushed our way through the throng.