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单词 throng
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throng

noun
/θrɒŋ/
/θrɔːŋ/
(literary)
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  1. a crowd of people
    • We pushed our way through the throng.
    • He was met by a throng of journalists and photographers.
    Extra Examples
    • She was lost in the throng.
    • Shopkeepers were closing up and joining the throng in the streets.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • assembled
    • gathered
    verb + throng
    • join
    preposition
    • among/​through the throng
    • in the throng
    • into the throng
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    Word OriginOld English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.

throng

verb
/θrɒŋ/
/θrɔːŋ/
[intransitive, transitive] (literary)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they throng
/θrɒŋ/
/θrɔːŋ/
he / she / it throngs
/θrɒŋz/
/θrɔːŋz/
past simple thronged
/θrɒŋd/
/θrɔːŋd/
past participle thronged
/θrɒŋd/
/θrɔːŋd/
-ing form thronging
/ˈθrɒŋɪŋ/
/ˈθrɔːŋɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. to go somewhere or be present somewhere in large numbers
    • + adv./prep. The children thronged into the hall.
    • throng to do something People are thronging to see his new play.
    • throng something Crowds thronged the stores.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryThrong is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • crowd
    Throng is used with these nouns as the object:
    • square
    • street
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    Word OriginOld English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.
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