| 单词 | jostle |
| 释义 | jos·tle I. also jus·tle intransitive verb 1. a. (1) < all drift and jostle and barge against one another — J.C.Powys > < wanted to get back to the bright lights … to jostle with the crowds — Harold Griffin > (2) < the stewards may disqualify the winner for crossing or jostling — Dennis Craig > b. < men in pearl-buttoned waistcoasts and flared trousers jostling round the street market — Osbert Lancaster > c. < study of the great groups that have jostled and migrated around America — Priscilla Robertson > < survivals of barbaric codes of law jostled with varying mixtures of Roman law, local custom, and violence — R.W.Southern > 2. a. obsolete b. < tribes began to jostle with one another for room — Daniel Defoe > < a novel good enough to jostle with the others in the great stream — Douglas Stewart > transitive verb 1. a. (1) < jostled each other in the dance or at the board — W.M.Thackeray > (2) b. < shrugged his shoulders and jostled his way out of the hall — John Buchan > c. < a mind jostled once more into uncertainty — Owen Wister > d. obsolete < the churches … clash and jostle supremacies with the civil magistrate — John Milton > e. < Europe, where a number of languages jostle each other — D.G.Mandelbaum > < fishing vessels lying close-packed at the moorings, jostling each other — Nevil Shute > 2. < both men were jostling each other for nomination > II. also justle 1. < might glide through … life among them without a jostle — Thomas Jefferson > 2. a. < away from the hustle and the jostle that ought to have been congenial to me — Max Beerbohm > b. < the jostle was wholly caused by the fault of some other horse or jockey — Dan Parker > |
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