throng

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /θɹɒŋ/    美 /θɹɔŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
    — Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.
  2. A group of things; a host or swarm.
    — Bloody corpses, broken bones reveal / A throng of clashes crushed, our nightmare sealed / Amongst the shadows and the stones
动词 v.
  1. To crowd into a place, especially to fill it. transitive
    — By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
  2. To congregate. intransitive
    — […]I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and / The blind to bear him speak:[…]
  3. To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. transitive
    — Much people followed him, and thronged him.
形容词 adj.
  1. Filled with persons or objects; crowded. Northern-England,Scotland
    — Earth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavès throng / And louchèd low grass, heaven that dost appeal / To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel; / That canst but only be, but dost that long— […]
  2. Busy; hurried. Northern-England,Scotland
    — Mr Shaw was very civil; he said he was rather throng just now, but if Ernest did not mind the sound of hammering he should be very glad of a talk with him.

词形变化

throngs plural throngs present,singular,third-person thronging participle,present thronged participle,past thronged past thronger comparative throngest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
throngful throngly throngy athrong bethrong enthrong inthrong overthrong thronger throngingly unthronged
相关词
thring

词源

词源 1
From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from *þrinhwaną (“to press, to push; to force”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”) and Persian ترنجیدن (Trenjidan, “to beat, to push”).
Compare typologically crowd (see there for more).
词源 2
From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from *þrinhwaną (“to press, to push; to force”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”) and Persian ترنجیدن (Trenjidan, “to beat, to push”).
Compare typologically crowd (see there for more).
词源 3
From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from *þrinhwaną (“to press, to push; to force”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”) and Persian ترنجیدن (Trenjidan, “to beat, to push”).
Compare typologically crowd (see there for more).
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