词汇 | bulldoze |
释义 | bulldoze verb[ T ] uk /ˈbʊl.dəʊz/ us /ˈbʊl.doʊz/ to destroy buildings and make an area flat with a bulldozer: (用推土机)推平,铲平 The township was bulldozed in the 1950s.这个小镇在20世纪50年代被夷为平地。 to force someone to do something, although they might not want to: 强迫 bulldoze someone into something/doing somethingShe bulldozed her daughter into buying a new dress.她逼着她的女儿去买条新裙子。 I know what they want me to do but I refuse to be bulldozed. Destroying and demolishing annihilate annihilation apocalypse bash bash through (something) be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom costly erosion erosional erosionally erosive extirpate saboteur sack sacking sacrifice scarred self-destruct sink wipe You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Causing somebody to act Examples of bulldozebulldoze During the 1970s, the southern end of the building was bulldozed away. Shortly afterwards, an area nearby was bulldozed to make way for radar-tracking equipment. In the farmscapes some hedges are being bulldozed away. In effect, a tropical paradise was bulldozed and paved over, leaving a place that now looks just like everywhere else. In the bulldozed plots they were all, because the topsoil had been removed. Areas with a high prediction score are to be protected, areas with a lower archaeological potential may be bulldozed. Engineers prepared the road by bulldozing it down to bedrock. The above-ground biomass in the cut site was 1291 g/m 2, in the cut-and-burnt 879 g/m 2, while in the bulldozed only 77 g/m 2. They bulldoze their way around. Unregulated bottom gear can also reach submerged mountains or seamounts, bulldozing their way across the ocean floor and destroying all life in their path. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Imagine the pain and suffering, watching helplessly as your home is bulldozed, then to have no knowledge of where you are being taken. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We do not want to bulldoze workers' rights, but we do want these workers to also be able to buy the products that they value. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They are all listed structures and cannot simply be bulldozed out of existence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been bulldozed and, in their place, we have the retail sector which is the theme of the day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is more, 200 houses have been bulldozed down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of bulldoze These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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