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词汇 huddle
释义 huddle
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈhʌd.əl/ us /ˈhʌd.əl/
to come close together in a group, for example because it is cold: (尤指因寒冷或恐惧而)挤成一团,聚集在一起;蜷缩,缩成一团
huddle roundEmployees huddled round television sets at the company headquarters.
huddle togetherIt was so cold that we huddled together for warmth.天太冷了,我们只得挤在一起取暖。
to sit or stand in a bent position with your arms and legs close to your body, especially because of cold or fear:
huddle (up)Sophie was so frightened by the noise of the fireworks that she huddled (up) in a corner of the room.
mainly US
to discuss something privately in a small group:
huddle withAfter huddling with advisors, the president gave a speech.
We spoke to Democratic lawmakers who are huddling on this issue on Capitol Hill tonight.
Everyone huddled around the fire to keep warm.
Resident Loree Wilkinson, 39, and her children, ages 6 and 9, huddled in a basement and prayed as the tornado passed overhead.
Inside the bars, weary locals huddle.
Men huddle in twos and threes, talking about this and that.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forming groups (of people)
alienated
be ranged against/with something/someone
class reunion
cluster
crowd
crowd around (someone/something)
federalization
flock
form
gather
incestuousness
mob
rally
range
regather
regroup
reunion
round
the assembled company
throng

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Returning to a place
Debate & discussion
huddle
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈhʌd.əl/ us /ˈhʌd.əl/
a small group of people or things that are close together: 挤在一起的人(或物)
in a huddleA small group of people stood in a huddle at the bus stop.一小群人在公共汽车站挤成一团。
huddle ofThe campsite comprises a huddle of tents on a bend in the river.
 go/get into a huddle
to get into a group in order to talk secretly: 围成一团(以秘密商讨)
The judges went into a huddle to decide the winner.评委们围成一团商量决定谁是获胜者。
a group formed by the members of a sports team in order to have a discussion, before they separate and continue to play: 队员靠拢(指美式橄榄球队员在继续比赛前聚成一团磋商战术)
I called a huddle and said, "We're going to do something different this time."
The typical book launch involves a huddle of people milling about a room with, perhaps, a few gushing words from the editor.
The village is no more than a huddle of old farmsteads and chalets.
There is a photo of him in a huddle with Ronald Reagan.
The last time religious leaders and the government got into a huddle, they emerged with a deal.
Jess called her teammates into a huddle and said "Let's go out and win this thing."
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Groups of people
affinity group
alliance
an
anti-gang
assemblage
factionally
family
federation
federative
First Nation
line (someone) up
mafia
mob
online community
peer group
phalanx
posse
public
scratch
syndicate

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American football

huddle | American Dictionary


huddle
verb[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]
us/ˈhʌd·əl/
to come close together in a group, or to hold your arms and legs close to your body, esp. because of cold or fear:
Everyone huddled around the fire to keep warm.

huddle


noun[ C ]us/ˈhʌd·əl/
The football players formed a huddle.

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Next door to my house, she sat huddled around a gas stove, always worried about the cost of running it.
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They will be huddled about stoves then, and in the lack of proper clothing will not keep in the open air.
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Obviously the shock was so great that they are now huddling together somewhere trying to create another policy on something.
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They are not huddled in rows close together; they are set up 10 or 12 to the acre.
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There women and children are huddled together in defiance of every moral and physical law.
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They were enormously helpful, but we will not make policy on who huddles around whom at an international conference.
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Families, huddled to- gether in town tenements in 1931, are now living in the countryside.
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They are huddled together for warmth to survive.
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They sit with their coats on, the curtains drawn and, at best, huddled over a single bar of an electric fire.
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They live in barns, huddled together, very often to their own detriment.
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He is huddled in his bunker, calculating how he can possibly extricate himself from his predicament.
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They are clinging with their supporters, like huddled and bedraggled limpets, to every rock, exposed to every wind and gale that blows.
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The few who are left are huddled together to escape from the very bleak weakness of their own doctrine.
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While we sit in the warm and dry, thousands of old people sit huddled over one-bar fires in cold, damp houses.
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To the master a large, bulky, comfortable, confident oil-skinned figure peering over the bridge rail, huddled in the lee of the wheelhouse.
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