| 释义 |
▪ I. ˈrushing, vbl. n.
[f. rush v.2]
a. The action of running or moving with great speed or force; the noise produced by some rapid or violent movement. Also in fig. uses.
c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7350 Þare salle be swilk rareyng and ruschyng And raumpyng of devels. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P. R. xviii. lxiv. (Bodl. MS.), [A lion] dredeþ noise and russchinge of wheles. c1430Syr Gener. 5921 The hors he held for al his russhing. 1535Coverdale Judith xiv. 13 They..made a greate russzhinge to wake him vp, because they thought with the noyse to haue raised him. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 79 b, The two kynges had their speres ready, then began the rushyng of speres. 1611Bible Isaiah xvii. 12 The rushing of nations, that make a rushing, like the rushing of mighty waters. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 682 Our..careless rushings into his presence in worship. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Sea, The rushing up continually of such a body of water makes a roundish cavity. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam i. iii, Hark! 'tis the rushing of a wind that sweeps Earth and the ocean. 1898Q. Rev. Apr. 429 We buried those whom the..brute had slain in his rushings.
b. spec. in croquet, American Football, etc. (see quots.). Cf. rush. v.2 5 e, 6 g.
1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 609/1 The learner should next practise rushing, i.e., roqueting with such force as to move the ball aimed at some distance. 1883Atlantic Monthly May 681/2 Avoirdupois and strength are at a premium for rushing, blocking and tackling. 1966Rote & Winter Lang. Pro Football iii. 134/2 Rushing,..offensive yardage gained by running with ball. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 36/5 Raimey..is leading the Eastern Football Conference in rushing. 1972J. Mosedale Football x. 143 He led the league in rushing in 1942 and 1946.
c. U.S. University slang. (See quot. 1888.)
1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 236 ‘Hazing,’ ‘rushing,’ secret societies.., are unknown at Oxford and Cambridge. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. vi. cii. III. 454 n., Sophomores and freshmen have a whimsical habit of meeting one another in dense masses and trying which can push the other aside on the stairs or path. This is called ‘rushing’.
d. rushing bases, a children's game, = King Cæsar s.v. king n. 5.
1849,1969[see king n. 5].
e. U.S. The process of entertaining candidates for fraternities and sororities and of selecting those who are suitable (see rush v.2 4 d). Also attrib.
1901Independent (N.Y.) 15 Feb. 392/1 The inter⁓fraternity contract..limited the ‘spiking’ or ‘rushing’ (terms covering all methods of competing for desirable members) to ten days. 1910Collier's 23 July 16/3 My four friends..admitted that during this so-called ‘rushing’ for new members there was considerable rivalry among sororities. 1929Daily Maroon (Chicago) 8 Oct. 2/1 No pledges are made until the fourth day of rushing week. 1931Kansas City Star 10 Oct., Fraternity rushing is entirely over and the freshmen have been told their place in life. 1942College Topics (Univ. Virginia) 12 Oct. 1/2 Rushing got underway and first year-men sought in the darkness for the various fraternity houses. 1946Life 18 Nov. 114/2 Howard has a normally lively interest in extracurricular activities like football, swimming, college dances..fraternity and sorority rushing. 1957Encycl. Brit. IX. 701/2 All of the fraternities aim to be select and to choose their members carefully from the mass of incoming students, the rushing, as the process of selection is called, being well organized and supervised by the older members. 1972C. S. Ogilvy Tomorrow's Math. (ed. 2) ii. 37 On college campuses where the fraternity system flourished, it was customary to allow each fraternity to choose..whom it should invite to become members. There were rules and ‘codes of rushing’, but even so..many undergraduates never had a chance to get into any fraternity.
▪ II. ˈrushing, ppl. a.
[f. rush v.2]
That rushes; moving or acting with rapidity or impetuosity. Also fig.
1557N. T. (Geneva) Acts ii. 2 And sodenly there came a sounde from heauen, as it had bene of a russhing and mighty winde. 1605Daniel Queen's Arcadia Wks. (1717) 177 Here by the Murmurs of this rushing Spring, She sweetly lay. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 97 Rushing sound Of onset ended soon each milder thought. 1743Francis tr. Horace, Odes i. xiv. 8 Nor without ropes thy keel can longer brave The rushing fury of th' imperious wave. 1805Southey Madoc ii. xxv, Around the rushing keel The waters sing. 1848Dickens Dombey xx, Tortured by these thoughts he carried monotony with him, through the rushing landscape. 1881W. G. Marshall Through America (1882) 93 Each and all of these have done a ‘rushing’ business during the past year. 1897E. L. Voynich Gadfly (1904) 24/2 The blackness seemed to fall away from him in pieces with a rushing noise. 1915N.Y. World 7 Aug. 1/3 All this time the soda-water stands were doing a rushing business. |