throng: [13] The etymological notion underlying throng is of ‘pressing together’. It was borrowed from Old Norse throng ‘crowd’, which went back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *thringg- ‘press’ (source also of German drang ‘crowd, pressure’ and dringen ‘press’). Amongst its non-Germanic relatives is Old Persian thraxta- ‘closely-packed’.
throng (n.)
c. 1300, probably shortened from Old English geþrang "crowd, tumult" (related to verb þringan "to push, crowd, press"), from Proto-Germanic *thrangan (cognates: Old Norse þröng, Dutch drang, German Drang "crowd, throng").
throng (v.)
"go in a crowd," 1530s, from throng (n.). Earlier it meant "to press, crush" (c. 1400). Related: Thronged; thronging.
雙語例句
1. They throng the beaches between late June and early August.
6月底到8月初，他們群聚在海灘上。
來自柯林斯例句
2. An official pushed through the throng.
一名官員費力地擠過人群。
來自柯林斯例句
3. We pushed our way through the throng.
我們擠過人群。
來自《權威詞典》
4. A great throng packed out the theater and overflowed into the corridors.
一大群人坐滿劇院並且還有人湧到了走廊上.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The jubilant throng is like the waves of the sea.