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单词 jostle
释义
jostle
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈdʒɒs.əl/us
/ˈdʒɑː.səl/
toknockorpushroughlyagainst someone inordertomovepast them or get morespacewhen you are in acrowdofpeople:
挤；推；撞
As we came into thearena, we were jostled byfanspushingtheirway towards thestage.我们进入场内时，被拥向舞台的歌迷们推来搡去。
Photographers jostled andshovedto get abetterviewof theroyalcouple.摄影师们推推搡搡，以便更清晰地拍到这对王室夫妇。
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jostling

Phrasal verb

jostle forsomething
(Definition ofjostlefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

jostle| American Dictionary

jostle
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈdʒɑs·əl/
topushagainst someone inordertomovepast thatpersonor get morespacewhen you are in acrowdofpeople:
[T]Someone jostled her from behind.
(Definition ofjostlefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofjostle

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Monkeys dislike being jostled, and they demand more elbow-room the higher their social rank.
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As for the outer movements of the quartet, they are jostling processions, the after necessarily rather different from the before.
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Alive with a tension between negative and positive space, these small abstract paintings are like plans of dense cities, where buildingsjostlefor room.
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Probably not one in twenty of the crowd that stood there jostling in the hot sunshine knew or cared what was taking place.
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There are also fissiparous tendencies in the north, with retired military men jostling for leadership with the present vice-president.
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Others were jostling for a chance of pulling the chariot, for this is deemed to be an act of religious merit.
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More important than this is the selection of poems, where often the good jostles the mediocre, and occasionally the mediocre is preferred for 'special study'.
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This stereotype of singers jostling for preeminence, though, should be considered in conjunction with the ephemeral quality of the interpreter's art.
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Interfering with one worker, the chorister jostles against another worker, the writer.
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The decade was a dynamic one, and multiple views jostled for prominence.
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Yet this transformation was itself uneven and one often finds the orthodox and unorthodox jostling side by side in the same work.
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The spectators laugh,jostle, move in and out, and often transgress the amorphous barriers between their space and that of the performers.
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The accoutrements of gentilityjostleon the mantlepiece, while meat is being carved in the shop front adjoining.
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Having theatrical expectations toyed with is one thing; having ontological ones jostled is quite another.
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Talk of a new school immediately led to disagreement and fighting, and a variety of people, in particular local elites, jostled to take advantage of possible new opportunities.
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