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throng

noun
🔊/θrɒŋ/
🔊/θrɔːŋ/
(literary)
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  1. a crowd of people聚集的人群；一大群人
    • We pushed our way through the throng.我们挤过人群。🔊🔊
    • He was met by a throng of journalists and photographers.他遇上了一群记者和摄影师。
    Extra Examples
    • She was lost in the throng.她在人群中迷失了方向。
    • Shopkeepers were closing up and joining the throng in the streets.店主关门大吉，在街上聚集。
    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群集；拥塞；拥向
    • + adv./prep. The children thronged into the hall.孩子们拥进了大厅。🔊🔊
    • throng to do something People are thronging to see his new play.人们成群结队地去看他的新戏。🔊🔊
    • throng something Crowds thronged the stores.各商店都挤满了人。🔊🔊
    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’.