mob
英 [m?b]
美[mɑb]
- n. 暴民，暴徒；民眾；烏合之眾
- vt. 大舉包圍，圍攻；蜂擁進(jìn)入
- vi. 聚眾生事，聚眾滋事
TEM4CET6常用詞匯考研中低頻詞
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?mobs;第三人稱單數(shù):?mobs;過去式:?mobbed;過去分詞:?mobbed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mobbing;
助記提示
1. "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble"。
中文詞源
mob 暴民，黑幫
縮寫自拉丁語mobile vulgus,被煽動(dòng)的民眾，引申詞義暴民，黑幫。
英英釋意
- 1. a disorderly crowd of people
- 2. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- 3. an association of criminals;
- "police tried to break up the gang"
- "a pack of thieves"
英文詞源
- mob
- mob: [17] Mob is famous as one of the then new ‘slang’ abbreviations against which Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift inveighed at the beginning of the 18th century (others included pozz for positively and rep for reputation). Mob was short for mobile, which itself was a truncated form of mobile vulgus, a Latin phrase meaning ‘fickle crowd’. Latin mōbilis ‘movable’, hence metaphorically ‘fickle’ (source of English mobile [15]), came from the base of the verb movēre ‘move’ (source of English move).
=> mobile, move - mob (v.)
- "to attack in a mob," 1709, from mob (n.). Meaning "to form into a mob" is from 1711. Related: Mobbed; mobbing.
- mob (n.)
- 1680s, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1670s, probably with a conscious play on nobility), from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (the phrase attested c. 1600 in English), from mobile, neuter of mobilis "fickle, movable, mobile" (see mobile (adj.)). In Australia and New Zealand, used without disparagement for "a crowd." Meaning "gang of criminals working together" is from 1839, originally of thieves or pick-pockets; American English sense of "organized crime in general" is from 1927.
The Mob was not a synonym for the Mafia. It was an alliance of Jews, Italians, and a few Irishmen, some of them brilliant, who organized the supply, and often the production, of liquor during the thirteen years, ten months, and nineteen days of Prohibition. ... Their alliance -- sometimes called the Combination but never the Mafia -- was part of the urgent process of Americanizing crime. [Pete Hamill, "Why Sinatra Matters," 1998]
Mob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922.
同義詞辨析
group, crowd, gang, band, mob, throng, masses, swarm
這些名詞均含"群，幫，伙"之意。
group： 普通用詞，通常指有組織、有秩序的一群人，也可指無意匯集在一起的一群人。
crowd： 常指無組織地亂哄哄地?cái)D在一起的人群。
gang： 常指從事非法、暴力或敵對(duì)活動(dòng)的幫派或團(tuán)伙。有時(shí)呈中性，詞義同group。
band： 多指一群有明確宗旨，為共同目的而結(jié)合在一起的人，常含貶義。
mob： 指無組織、亂七八糟湊合在一起的烏合之眾，或指聚集在一起尋釁滋事的人群，多為暴徒。
throng： 書面用詞，意義接近c(diǎn)rowd，側(cè)重密集地?cái)D在一起的一群，含擠在一起向前推進(jìn)之意。
masses： 指群眾或人民大眾。
swarm： 指人數(shù)眾多，雜亂無章，不停移動(dòng)的一群人。
people, masses, crowd, throng, mob
這些名詞均有"人們，人群"之意。
people： 最普通用詞，不帶任何色彩，泛指不確定數(shù)量的人們。
masses： 指群眾或平民，在西方國家含貶義，在我國含褒義。
crowd： 本義指一大群緊緊聚集在一起的人群，現(xiàn)指群眾整體，由個(gè)體結(jié)合的人群或大眾。
throng與crowd含義很接近，?？蓳Q用，但側(cè)重指向前運(yùn)動(dòng)的群眾。
mob： 含貶義，指烏合之眾、暴民。
實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句
- an angry/unruly mob
- 憤怒的 / 失控的暴民
牛津詞典
- The mob was/were preparing to storm the building.
- 聚集的群眾準(zhǔn)備猛攻大樓。
牛津詞典
- an excited mob of fans
- 一群激動(dòng)的球迷
牛津詞典
- mob rule (= a situation in which a mob has control, rather than people in authority)
- 暴民統(tǒng)治
牛津詞典
- All the usual mob were there.
- 所有成員都在那里。
牛津詞典
- a mob of cattle
- 一群牛
牛津詞典
- Bottles and cans were hurled on the terraces by the mob...
- 暴徒向看臺(tái)扔瓶子和罐子。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- The inspectors watched a growing mob of demonstrators gathering.
- 督察們看見越來越多憤怒的示威者聚集到一起。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- If they continue like this there is a danger of the mob taking over...
- 如果他們繼續(xù)這樣下去，就有可能被暴動(dòng)的群眾控制局面。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- They have been exercising what amounts to mob rule.
- 他們一直在實(shí)行相當(dāng)于暴政的統(tǒng)治。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- ...casinos that the Mob had operated...
- 黑社會(huì)經(jīng)營的賭場(chǎng)
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- It was a Mob killing.
- 這是一宗黑社會(huì)犯下的殺人案件。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Her car was mobbed by the media...
- 她的車被媒體團(tuán)團(tuán)圍住了。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- They found themselves being mobbed in the street for autographs.
- 他們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己被索要簽名的人群圍堵在大街上。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- The mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob.
- 暴民們卻對(duì)火槍手開槍, 火槍手也對(duì)暴民還擊.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- An angry mob is attacking the palace.
- 憤怒的暴徒在攻擊王宮.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- He ended up being chased down the street by an angry mob.
- 他最后被街上的暴民追趕到盡頭.
期刊摘選
- He tried to pacify the mob.
- 他試圖安撫暴民.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- These bandits are just a disorderly mob and will collapse at the first blow.
- 這些土匪是一群烏合之眾,不堪一擊.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.
- 壓制這群暴徒的惟一方法是使用催淚瓦斯.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- The mob looted many shops in the area.
- 暴徒在該地?fù)尳倭嗽S多商店.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- The police arrived. Thereupon the mob scattered.
- 警察來了,這群烏合之眾也隨之散去.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- The mob bravadoed a while but never got really violent.
- 暴民們虛張聲勢(shì)了一番,但始終沒有真正地鬧起來.
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- The king was burned in effigy by the angry mob.
- 國王的模擬像被憤怒的民眾燒掉以泄心中的憤恨.
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- The troops suppressed the rebellion by firing on the mob.
- 軍隊(duì)向暴徒開槍鎮(zhèn)壓叛亂.
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- People celebrating the armistice behaved like an orgiastic mob.
- 慶祝停戰(zhàn)的人們象一群狂歡的暴民.
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- The police kept the mob under control.
- 警察將暴徒制服.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- He gripped his brother's arm lest he be trampled by the mob.
- 他緊抓著他兄弟的胳膊，怕他讓暴民踩著。
《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》