crowd

• n. 群众,一伙;一堆,许多,大众
• v. 拥挤,挤满,挤进
• vt. 挤满,将...塞进;催促,催逼
• vi. 挤,拥挤,聚集

来自PIE*ger, 围，群，块，词源同cram, group.

1. a large number of things or people considered together;

"a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

2. an informal body of friends;

"he still hangs out with the same crowd"

crowd

crowd: [OE] The notion underlying crowd is of ‘pushing’ or ‘pressing’ (a semantic element shared by throng and of course by the now obsolete use of press for ‘crowd’, and echoed in such current expressions as ‘there’s quite a crush in here’). The Old English verb crūdan meant simply ‘press’, and of its relatives Middle Dutch crūden meant ‘press, push’ and Middle High German kroten meant ‘oppress’. Old English also had a noun croda ‘crowd’, but this does not seem to be the direct ancestor of the modern English noun, which does not appear until as late as the 16th century, as a derivative of the verb.

crowd (v.)

Old English crudan "to press, crush." Cognate with Middle Dutch cruden "to press, push," Middle High German kroten "to press, oppress," Norwegian kryda "to crowd." Related: Crowded; crowding.

crowd (n.)

1560s, from crowd (v.). The earlier word was press (n.).

group, crowd, gang, band, mob, throng, masses, swarm

这些名词均含"群，帮，伙"之意。

group： 普通用词，通常指有组织、有秩序的一群人，也可指无意汇集在一起的一群人。

crowd： 常指无组织地乱哄哄地挤在一起的人群。

gang： 常指从事非法、暴力或敌对活动的帮派或团伙。有时呈中性，词义同group。

band： 多指一群有明确宗旨，为共同目的而结合在一起的人，常含贬义。

mob： 指无组织、乱七八糟凑合在一起的乌合之众，或指聚集在一起寻衅滋事的人群，多为暴徒。

throng： 书面用词，意义接近crowd，侧重密集地挤在一起的一群，含挤在一起向前推进之意。

masses： 指群众或人民大众。

swarm： 指人数众多，杂乱无章，不停移动的一群人。

people, masses, crowd, throng, mob

这些名词均有"人们，人群"之意。

people： 最普通用词，不带任何色彩，泛指不确定数量的人们。

masses： 指群众或平民，在西方国家含贬义，在我国含褒义。

crowd： 本义指一大群紧紧聚集在一起的人群，现指群众整体，由个体结合的人群或大众。

throng与crowd含义很接近，常可换用，但侧重指向前运动的群众。

mob： 含贬义，指乌合之众、暴民。

Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have  become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

State arts councils help sponsor local arts and crafts festivals which draw crowds of tourist consumers.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They are crowded with tourists.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking?

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

On a recent fall morning, a large crowd blocked the steps at one of Venice's main tourist sites, the Rialto Bridge.

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Up to 90, 000 tourists crowd its streets and canals every day—far outnumbering the 55, 000 permanent residents.

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

just perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjust their behaviour in the direction of the crowd.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

On crowded campuses it could mean fewer opportunities to get into a prized professor's class.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

How to cope with the huge crowds of visitors to the municipal building

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

birds flock together, fish school together, cattle herd together...just perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjust their behaviour in the direction of the crowd.

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant's reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

It ran for just under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible crowds on the roads above as they travelled to and from word.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Meanwhile, things that you might expect to discourage spending— "bad" tables, crowding, high prices — don't necessarily.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

On the third Monday of April, the holiday sechselauten is kicked off when a cotton snowman called the boogg is stuffed with explosive and paraded through town by bakers and other tradesmen who throw bread to the crowds.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Scott's last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Several boys were crowding around chad, who declared with a proud smile that he sold six dozen the day before.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, everyone on the bus began talking about what the boy had done, and the crowd of strangers suddenly became friendly to one another.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in alaska, they left dawson city as quickly as they had come.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The crowds might damage the beauty of the place.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoes—official fight-starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

They found the city too crowded.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.

出自-2018年考研翻译原文

Too many uncomfortable thoughts were crowding in on her.

她心乱如麻。

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Photographers were crowding around outside.

摄影师聚集在外面。

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Memories crowded his mind.

往事涌上他的心头。

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We all crowded around the stove to keep warm.

我们都挤在炉边取暖。

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Bob introduced her to some of the usual crowd (= people who often meet each other) .

鲍勃把她介绍给常见面的几个朋友。

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the bright young theatrical crowd

这帮年轻聪明的戏剧演员

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We all like to think we stand out from the crowd (= are different from and better than other people) .

我们都喜欢认为自己胜人一筹。

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He prefers to be one of the crowd .

他宁愿做个凡夫俗子。

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She's quite happy to follow the crowd .

她就愿意随大溜。

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Thousands of people crowded the narrow streets.

成千上万的人把狭窄的街道挤得水泄不通。

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He left the hotel surrounded by crowds of journalists.

他在大群记者的包围下离开了酒店。

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Police had to break up the crowd.

警方不得不驱散人群。

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Crowds of people poured into the street.

人们成群结队涌上街头。

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I want to get there early to avoid the crowds.

我想及早赶到那里，免得拥挤。

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The match attracted a capacity crowd of 80 000.

这场比赛爆满，吸引了8万名观众。

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The crowd cheered the winning hit.

观众为那决胜的一击而欢呼。

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crowd control

人群控制

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crowd trouble

群众闹事

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A whole crowd of us are going to the ball (= a lot of us) .

我们一大帮人要去参加那场舞会。

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He pushed his way through the crowd.

他在人群中往前挤。

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A small crowd had gathered outside the church.

一小群人聚集在教堂的外面。

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A huge crowd gathered in a square outside the Kremlin walls...

一大群人聚集在克里姆林宫墙外的广场上。

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It took some two hours before the crowd was fully dispersed...

大概花了两个小时才把人群全部疏散开。

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All the old crowd have come out for this occasion.

那些老伙计们都来参加这一庆典。

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The hungry refugees crowded around the tractors...

饥饿的难民聚集到拖拉机周围。

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Police blocked off the road as hotel staff and guests crowded around.

当酒店工作人员和旅客们都聚拢过来时，警察封锁了那条路。

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Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius...

几十万人涌入立陶宛首都维尔纽斯的市中心。

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One group of journalists were crowded into a minibus...

一群记者挤进一辆小型公共汽车。

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Thousands of demonstrators crowded the streets shouting slogans.

数千名高喊着口号的示威者把街道挤得水泄不通。

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It had been a tense, restless day with people crowding her all the time.

这是紧张、忙碌的一天，每时每刻都有人围在她身旁。

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