单词 | rush |
释义 | rush I. 1. a. b. c. 2. < not even worth a rush > II. transitive verb intransitive verb III. intransitive verb 1. a. < servants rushed in and out piling up a variety of food — Heinrich Harrer > < the gate was open and the Indians rushed in — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > b. < the complaining parties … rush blindly on the superficial causes of their immediate distress — J.A.Froude > < rushing in with brand-new solutions without consulting the party — Leslie Roberts > < men who should have known better rushed into print — W.E.Swinton > 2. a. < flames … rushing up in long lances — John Muir †1914 > < skim along … at fifty miles an hour with the air rushing in — Tom Marvel > < the brook … rushes over a precipice in two cascades — American Guide Series: Connecticut > b. < all the horror rushed over her afresh — Ellen Glasgow > < tenderness rushed upon him — Christine Weston > < old times rushed back upon me — the remembrance of old services — W.M.Thackeray > 3. transitive verb 1. obsolete < thy fault our law calls death; but the kind Prince … hath rushed aside the law — Shakespeare > 2. < able to guess when new gales … would rush the line of snowstorms out to sea — J.A.Michener > 3. a. < seemed to be rushing himself and others into trouble — Walter Lippmann > b. < was able to rush into the field three regiments of militia — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > < rushed her to the hospital — Morris Fishbein > < didn't want to be rushed into marriage — Floyd Dell > c. < decided that the work … was to be rushed — Mary Austin > < the same class of ambitious leaders rushed it into statehood — D.Y.Thomas > 4. < better not to rush young children too much, even if they are unusual — Charles Angoff > < the department stores always seem to rush the season > < had been really rushed yesterday > 5. < rushed the enemy group, bayoneted their leader — H.L.Merillat > < if you hear three shots, rush the door — Laura Krey > 6. 7. a. b. 8. a. < has been rushing that girl for nearly three months > b. < the sorority decided to rush fewer girls this year > Synonyms: < a flying rout of suns and galaxies, rushing away from the solar system — E.M.Forster > < business rushed forward into the glittering years — American Guide Series: Ind. > dash is now likely to suggest running or moving at a wild unrestrained top speed < gyroscopically controlled trains that can make 150 miles an hour … and dash across an abyss on a steel cable — Waldemar Kaempffert > < dash'd on like a spurred blood-horse in a race — Lord Byron > tear, in this sense, may suggest extreme swiftness with impetus, violence, and abandon < then he tore out of the study — Agnes S. Turnbull > < disheveled atoms tear along at 100 miles a second — Waldemar Kaempffert > shoot may imply the precipitate headlong rushing or darting of something impelled, as though discharged from a gun < leaped to one side and out of reach of those wicked horns. The bull shot past — F.B.Gipson > < the Bridal Veil shoots free from the upper edge of the cliff by the velocity the stream has acquired — John Muir †1914 > < shooting out in their motorcars on errands of mystery — Virginia Woolf > charge is likely to suggest a rapid, violent onslaught gathering forceful momentum calculated to overpower < down we swept and charged and overthrew — Alfred Tennyson > < one morning he charged — he was a very burly man — into Rossetti's studio — Osbert Sitwell > • - rush the growler IV. 1. a. < a rush was made at the first three food-laden wagons — F.V.W.Mason > < a whole load of earth fell with a rush — Liam O'Flaherty > b. < the idea may come with a rush of wings — Harriet Monroe > < heard the rush of the distant waterfall > c. < a rush of moral indignation — V.S.Pritchett > < sat back with a curious little rush of excitement — Ann Bridge > < a quick rush of sympathy — Gordon Cuyler > 2. a. < the rush … to locate and tap new and improved sources of raw materials — V.G.Iden > < buy in a wild Saturday morning rush or go without what you need — Nathaniel Peffer > < the patient had peristaltic rushes > b. < caused a rush among American banking houses to retain him as their legal counsel — Current Biography > < was assured of a box-office rush — Newsweek > < the height of the Christmas rush — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas > 3. < the second season of the great California rush — Cliff Farrell > < most men who have known the excitement of a rush always remain prospectors at heart — American Guide Series: Nevada > 4. < sped 56 yards with the kickoff and got three more on a rush — Allison Danzig > 5. < the day of the big freshman rush, in which the sophomores would … try to prevent the freshmen from charging — Edmund Wilson > 6. < seem to be giving her quite a rush — Hamilton Basso > 7. • - at a rush V. 1. < rush orders for coffee and doughnuts — Robertson Davies > 2. < rush week > 3. < transatlantic liner business will swing into the annual rush season — George Horne b.1902 > < the worst delays … took place not in cities but in suburban towns at the rush commuting hours — Hal Burton > VI. 1. 2. |
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