elbowing

柯林斯詞典

elbow /??lb??/ (elbowing,elbowed,elbows)

• 1. N-COUNT Your elbow is the part of your arm where the upper and lower halves are joined. 肘

  He slipped and fell, badly bruising an elbow. 他滑倒了，嚴重挫傷了一只胳膊肘。

• 2. V-T If you elbow people aside or elbow your way somewhere, you push people with your elbows in order to move somewhere. (用肘部) 推

  They also claim that the security team elbowed aside a steward. 他們還聲稱治安隊把一名乘務(wù)員推到了一邊。

• 3. V-T If someone or something elbows their way somewhere, or elbows other people or things out of the way, they achieve success by being aggressive and determined. (用肘部) 擠

  Non-state firms gradually elbow aside the inefficient state-owned ones. 非國有企業(yè)逐漸排擠掉了那些低效率的國有企業(yè)。

• 4. to rub elbows with→see rub

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