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.
双语例句
1. They throng the beaches between late June and early August.
6月底到8月初，他们群聚在海滩上。
来自柯林斯例句
2. An official pushed through the throng.
一名官员费力地挤过人群。
来自柯林斯例句
3. We pushed our way through the throng.
我们挤过人群。
来自《权威词典》
4. A great throng packed out the theater and overflowed into the corridors.
一大群人坐满剧院并且还有人涌到了走廊上.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The jubilant throng is like the waves of the sea.
