| 单词 | jostle |
| 释义 | jostle (dʒɒsəl ) Word forms: jostles , jostling , jostled 1. verb If people jostle you, they bump against you or push you in a way that annoys you, usually because you are in a crowd and they are trying to get past you. You get 2,000 people jostling each other and bumping into furniture. [VERB noun] We spent an hour jostling with the crowds as we did our shopping. [VERB preposition/adverb] She was cheered and clapped by tourists who jostled to see her. [VERB to-infinitive] Synonyms: push, press, crowd [informal], shake 2. verb If people or things are jostling for something such as attention or a reward, they are competing with other people or things in order to get it. ...the contenders who have been jostling for the top job. [VERB + for] There is a wide spread of stories jostling for coverage on today's front pages. [VERB for noun] Synonyms: compete, fight, struggle, contest Collocations: jostle together Nowadays it's the practical problem of multiculturalism, where mutually uncomprehending groups jostle together and deploy a hypercautious politeness by way of avoiding friction. Globe and Mail I love the way those thoughts could jostle together. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recipes for distillations, for perfumes and for foodstuffs often jostled together in early modern receipt books. The Times Literary Supplement Translations: Chinese: 推挤 Japanese: 押しのける |
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