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mob

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [mɒb]
  • 美式音标 [mɑːb]
  • 国际音标 [mɔb]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 暴民，暴徒；民众；乌合之众
  • vt. 大举包围，围攻；蜂拥进入
  • vi. 聚众生事，聚众滋事

词源解说

  • 17世纪80年代进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的mobile vulgus，意为喜怒无常的群众。

词根记忆

  • 那群暴民(mob)到处抢劫(rob)

同根派生

  • mob

用法辨析

    n. (名词)

  • mob用作名词时的基本意思是“成群的暴徒”,引申还可表示“有势力的犯罪集团〔团伙〕”。mob是可数集合名词,当以其单数形式作主语时,如强调一个整体,谓语动词用单数形式,如强调其成员,谓语动词用复数形式。

    • v. (动词)

  • mob用作名词时意思是“暴民”“下层民众”,转化为动词时表示“聚众包围”,多指不善意地“围攻”。
  • mob多用作及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语,可用于被动结构。
  • mob的过去式、过去分词均为mobbed。

英汉例句

    用作名词 (n.)

  • An angry mob is attacking the palace.
    愤怒的暴徒在攻击王宫。

    • 用作动词 (v.)

    用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

  • Fans mobbed the actor where he went.
    那位演员走到哪里,影迷们都围着他。

词组短语

    用作名词 (n.)

    动词+～

  • confront 〔control, disperse〕the mob 面对〔控制,驱散〕暴民

    • 形容词+～

  • organized mob 有组织的暴徒
  • undisciplined mob 乌合之众

    • 用作动词 (v.)

    ～+名词

  • mob the police 围攻警察
  • mob the singer 围着歌星
  • mob the stores 围着商场转

    • ～+副词

  • mob forward 向前挤

    • 短语

  • Flash mob 快闪党;快闪族;快闪行动;闪客
  • mob rule 暴民统治;暴徒统治;黑金企业

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • a large, angry crowd, especially one that could easily become violent
  • to come together around someone in a crowd to express admiration, interest, or anger

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.
  • You can refer to the people involved in organized crime as the Mob.
  • People sometimes use the mob to refer in a disapproving way to the majority of people in a country or place, especially when these people are behaving in a violent or uncontrolled way.
  • If you say that someone is being mobbed by a crowd of people, you mean that the people are trying to talk to them or get near them in an enthusiastic or threatening way.