单词 | drive |
释义 | drive I. transitive verb 1. a. < he slammed the door and drove the bolt home > < cheerily drove his pen afresh — George Meredith > < as white as the driven snow > < the trade winds drive the equatorial currents > < driving his canoe onto the beach > b. < a tackler should drive his body so as to hit the ballcarrier just above the knees > < he drove the muzzle hard into the man's face — Max Peacock > specifically < heat will drive off the quicksilver > c. < cowboys drove herds north > < prisoners were driven onto barges > d. < as a man would drive a nail — J.G.Frazer > : plunge forcibly < I drove my sword through his heart — Padraic Colum > e. < many attempts to drive the British out of Egypt > < the task of driving the invaders back across the border > < with the German eagle driven from the seas — R.W.Van Alstyne > < the noise would drive you out of the place — Ellwood Kirby > f. < engaged in a long attempt to drive Burr from public life — Nathan Schachner > < this wetback competition annually drives thousands of Texans as far north as Oregon in search of work — D.L.Graham > also < radio has driven the newspaper extra from the streets > g. < machines driven by clockwork > < whether it was being driven as a generator or was running as a motor — F.A.Annett > : set or keep in operation < drove their mills with water power > 2. a. b. < drive a watercraft > c. d. < he had to drive his produce to market before daylight > e. < drove the river road in all kinds of weather > < drove creek beds and sidehills to reach his backcountry patients > f. < he always drove a sedan > g. 3. a. < shipowners were driving a roaring trade in oriental ports > b. < they will not give up their bargaining advantage without driving a hard bargain politically — Cecil Hobbs > specifically < superhighway being driven across the state > c. 4. a. < hunger drove him to steal > < to make us believe that his characters are fellow beings driven by their own passions and idiosyncracies — Virginia Woolf > < he used only persuasion, for he knew she could not be driven > < a wayward genius who is driven to incredible writing feats by pressure of debts — Leslie Rees > < economic insecurity that drives young people into vocational training — A.W.Griswold > b. < to what depths of bitterness she had been driven — Herbert Read > < continuing pressure of the unsolved problem drives the society … to a precipitate and spurious defense mechanism — Weston La Barre > specifically < driven desperate by the pressures of drab life — Evelyn Eaton > < a stupid cocotte who has begun by driving him mad with jealousy — Edmund Wilson > c. < he drives them hard with five-mile runs before breakfast — Harry Gordon > < I have been ruthlessly driven — hence this silence — H.J.Laski > : press or spur to greater intensity of determined striving < a tired spirit driving body and nerves to an effort they were crying to avoid — Fred Majdalany > < believed men were driven hardest by ambition — M.A.Kline > < he lacked the will that drives one to disregard human factors, to crush all who opposed him > d. < forces which had driven the tide of population across the Alleghenies — R.A.Billington > < discipline required to drive the bill through congress > < advised against driving the party underground > specifically < going to try to drive interest rates down which meant driving up the capital value of existing loans — Harold Wincott > e. < only a few are willing to drive this doctrine straight through to its logical conclusion — Clinton Rossiter > < the basic point at last is driven solidly home in a 56-page booklet — R.D.Darrell > < the laconic or sententious phrase to drive home and imbed what might otherwise be lost or scattered — B.N.Cardozo > f. < as the corroborative detail drove doubts from his mind — T.B.Costain > < a sad day for the United States if the tradition of dissent were driven out of the universities — J.B.Conant > specifically < resolved that sound Latin … should drive out, for literary purposes, the Italian vernaculars and medieval Latin — G.C.Sellery > 5. archaic < drive bad luck > : cast < drive not the fault on him — Robert Bridges †1930 > 6. a. obsolete < drive the tedious hours away — John Dryden > b. < drive bedtime > 7. obsolete 8. a. obsolete b. < beaters drove the birds toward the guns > also < we will drive the small woods by the stream tomorrow > — compare stalk, walk up c. obsolete < drive animals > 9. a. b. < drive a well > 10. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. intransitive verb 1. a. < the halfback drove through the line > < he drove rudely past her into the room — E.F.McGuire > b. < he crossed the river in the midst of driving ice > < a meteor driving toward the earth > < the slanting rain, which drove faster every minute — Ellen Glasgow > c. < the division drove some 400 miles > d. < the harpoon drove deep > 2. 3. < just as a snarling Queen's Ranger drove at him — F.V.W.Mason > < he then seized the shotgun and let drive with both barrels > 4. a. < try to drive toward a generalization and a hypothesis — Lionel Trilling > < driving through obstacles — Time > < the decision to drive ahead with all speed for the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb — W.H.Chamberlin > also < the justices are driving hard to clean up pending cases — Christian Science Monitor > b. < even after reaching the top he continues to drive > 5. a. b. < road signs warning motorists to drive slow > c. < I drove there with a friend and flew back by myself > 6. archaic 7. 8. 9. Synonyms: see move • - drive at II. 1. a. < an afternoon drive along the lakefront > < a 2-hour drive to the next city > b. < a cross-state drive > < the third day's drive became wearisome > c. d. < the long drive lingered only in the memories and imaginations of old cowhands — D.B.Davis > e. f. g. (1) < the drive is called the basic scoring shot in cricket > < a low drive that hit the net > (2) < his solid drives range between 220 and 240 yards > h. i. Britain 2. a. < the house stands at the end of a long drive surrounded by spacious lawns and gardens — American Guide Series: Florida > : driveway 2 b. < the highway now skirts the lakeshore with all the fresh beauty of a seacoast drive — American Guide Series: Vermont > c. < Morningside Drive overlooking the Hudson > 3. 4. < in the path of the Soviet drive toward the Adriatic — H.C.Wolfe > < both touchdowns capped long drives > especially < a swift nine-month drive from the Normandy bridgehead … across France and Germany and into Austria — Current Biography > 5. < elude the ruthless drive of work and worry — S.H.Adams > < I am in such a drive that I can't expatiate — H.J.Laski > 6. 7. 8. < an annual drive for membership in the league > < a propaganda drive aimed at undermining our prestige abroad > < sparked drives that raised many hundreds of thousands of dollars for veterans' hospitals and … relief — J.A.Morris b. 1904 > < the drive for national independence has had a long history in Indochina — Cecil Hobbs > 9. 10. a. < those sexual drives which are such a fertile source of conflict among most vertebrates — Ralph Linton > < habits attached to the hunger drive > also b. < possessed with a drive for perfection — Time > < the integrating drive or disposition that gives a life history its continuity or a personality its consistency and integrity — H.J.Muller > < a prisoner of the old national and imperialist drives — Partisan Review > < “Asia for the Asians” … represents the drive of millions upon millions of people — W.O.Douglas > c. < his drive and enthusiasm overcame all obstacles — Times Literary Supplement > < a tremendous energy drive that keeps him in a constant state of high gear — Martin Gardner > < the city had lost … the surging drive that supposedly was so characteristically American — Harold Sinclair > < concerned with the dynamic core of a society, its central impulse and drive — Charles Maughan > d. < he developed irresistible drive in the performance of plays — Sheldon Cheney > < a stronger drive in the big climaxes — Irving Kolodin > e. f. 11. a. < belt drive > < electric drive > also < a group drive > b. < front-wheel drive > < four-wheel drive > c. < a left-hand drive > also < an enclosed drive > 12. < water drive > < gas-cap drive > 13. Synonyms: see vigor III. < a drive chain > IV. • - drive home V. |
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