throng: [13] The etymological notion underlying throng is of ‘pressing together’. It was borrowed from Old Norse throng ‘crowd’, which went back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *thringg- ‘press’ (source also of German drang ‘crowd, pressure’ and dringen ‘press’). Amongst its non-Germanic relatives is Old Persian thraxta- ‘closely-packed’.
throng (n.)
c. 1300, probably shortened from Old English getrang "crowd, tumult" (related to verb tringan "to push, crowd, press"), from Proto-Germanic *thrangan (cognates: Old Norse tr?ng, Dutch drang, German Drang "crowd, throng").
throng (v.)
"go in a crowd," 1530s, from throng (n.). Earlier it meant "to press, crush" (c. 1400). Related: Thronged; thronging.
雙語例句
1. They throng the beaches between late June and early August.
6月底到8月初，他們?nèi)壕墼诤┥稀?/dd>
來自柯林斯例句
2. An official pushed through the throng.
一名官員費力地擠過人群。
來自柯林斯例句
3. We pushed our way through the throng.
我們擠過人群。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. A great throng packed out the theater and overflowed into the corridors.
一大群人坐滿劇院并且還有人涌到了走廊上.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The jubilant throng is like the waves of the sea.