mob
英 [mɒb]
美[mɑb]
- n. 暴民，暴徒；民众；乌合之众
- vt. 大举包围，围攻；蜂拥进入
- vi. 聚众生事，聚众滋事
词态变化
复数: mobs;第三人称单数: mobs;过去式: mobbed;过去分词: mobbed;现在分词: mobbing;
助记提示
1. "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble"。
中文词源
mob 暴民，黑帮
缩写自拉丁语mobile vulgus,被煽动的民众，引申词义暴民，黑帮。
英英释意
- 1. a disorderly crowd of people
- 2. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- 3. an association of criminals;
- "police tried to break up the gang"
- "a pack of thieves"
英文词源
- mob
- mob: [17] Mob is famous as one of the then new ‘slang’ abbreviations against which Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift inveighed at the beginning of the 18th century (others included pozz for positively and rep for reputation). Mob was short for mobile, which itself was a truncated form of mobile vulgus, a Latin phrase meaning ‘fickle crowd’. Latin mōbilis ‘movable’, hence metaphorically ‘fickle’ (source of English mobile [15]), came from the base of the verb movēre ‘move’ (source of English move).
=> mobile, move - mob (v.)
- "to attack in a mob," 1709, from mob (n.). Meaning "to form into a mob" is from 1711. Related: Mobbed; mobbing.
- mob (n.)
- 1680s, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1670s, probably with a conscious play on nobility), from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (the phrase attested c. 1600 in English), from mobile, neuter of mobilis "fickle, movable, mobile" (see mobile (adj.)). In Australia and New Zealand, used without disparagement for "a crowd." Meaning "gang of criminals working together" is from 1839, originally of thieves or pick-pockets; American English sense of "organized crime in general" is from 1927.
The Mob was not a synonym for the Mafia. It was an alliance of Jews, Italians, and a few Irishmen, some of them brilliant, who organized the supply, and often the production, of liquor during the thirteen years, ten months, and nineteen days of Prohibition. ... Their alliance -- sometimes called the Combination but never the Mafia -- was part of the urgent process of Americanizing crime. [Pete Hamill, "Why Sinatra Matters," 1998]
Mob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922.
同义词辨析
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。
实用场景例句
- an angry/unruly mob
- 愤怒的 / 失控的暴民
牛津词典
- The mob was/were preparing to storm the building.
- 聚集的群众准备猛攻大楼。
牛津词典
- an excited mob of fans
- 一群激动的球迷
牛津词典
- mob rule (= a situation in which a mob has control, rather than people in authority)
- 暴民统治
牛津词典
- All the usual mob were there.
- 所有成员都在那里。
牛津词典
- a mob of cattle
- 一群牛
牛津词典
- Bottles and cans were hurled on the terraces by the mob...
- 暴徒向看台扔瓶子和罐子。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The inspectors watched a growing mob of demonstrators gathering.
- 督察们看见越来越多愤怒的示威者聚集到一起。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- If they continue like this there is a danger of the mob taking over...
- 如果他们继续这样下去，就有可能被暴动的群众控制局面。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They have been exercising what amounts to mob rule.
- 他们一直在实行相当于暴政的统治。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...casinos that the Mob had operated...
- 黑社会经营的赌场
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- It was a Mob killing.
- 这是一宗黑社会犯下的杀人案件。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Her car was mobbed by the media...
- 她的车被媒体团团围住了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They found themselves being mobbed in the street for autographs.
- 他们发现自己被索要签名的人群围堵在大街上。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob.
- 暴民们却对火枪手开枪, 火枪手也对暴民还击.
《简明英汉词典》
- An angry mob is attacking the palace.
- 愤怒的暴徒在攻击王宫.
《简明英汉词典》
- He ended up being chased down the street by an angry mob.
- 他最后被街上的暴民追赶到尽头.
期刊摘选
- He tried to pacify the mob.
- 他试图安抚暴民.
《简明英汉词典》
- These bandits are just a disorderly mob and will collapse at the first blow.
- 这些土匪是一群乌合之众,不堪一击.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.
- 压制这群暴徒的惟一方法是使用催泪瓦斯.
《简明英汉词典》
- The mob looted many shops in the area.
- 暴徒在该地抢劫了许多商店.
《简明英汉词典》
- The police arrived. Thereupon the mob scattered.
- 警察来了,这群乌合之众也随之散去.
《简明英汉词典》
- The mob bravadoed a while but never got really violent.
- 暴民们虚张声势了一番,但始终没有真正地闹起来.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The king was burned in effigy by the angry mob.
- 国王的模拟像被愤怒的民众烧掉以泄心中的愤恨.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The troops suppressed the rebellion by firing on the mob.
- 军队向暴徒开枪镇压叛乱.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- People celebrating the armistice behaved like an orgiastic mob.
- 庆祝停战的人们象一群狂欢的暴民.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The police kept the mob under control.
- 警察将暴徒制服.
《简明英汉词典》
- He gripped his brother's arm lest he be trampled by the mob.
- 他紧抓着他兄弟的胳膊，怕他让暴民踩着。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》