bulldoze
bulldoze 英 [ˈbʊldəʊz] 美 [ˈbʊldoʊz]
vt. 强迫；恫吓；用推土机清除
进行时:bulldozing 过去式:bulldozed 过去分词:bulldozed 第三人称单数:bulldozes 名词复数:bulldozes
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- vt. 强迫；恫吓；用推土机清除
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1. But the main thing is not to bulldoze the slums.
然而，最重要的事情是不要用推土机推平贫民窟。
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2. To clear that rubbish away they may have to bulldoze.
清除那堆垃圾他们也许得用推土机。
- bulldoze (v.) by 1880, "intimidate by violence," from an earlier noun, bulldose "a severe beating or lashing" (1876), said by contemporary sources to be literally "a dose fit for a bull," a slang word referring to the intimidation beating of black voters (by either blacks or whites) in the chaotic 1876 U.S. presidential election. See bull (n.1) + dose (n.). The bull element in it seems to be connected to that in bull-whip and might be directly from that word. Meaning "use a mechanical ground-clearing caterpillar tractor" is from 1942 (see bulldozer); figurative use in this sense is by 1948. Related: Bulldozed; bulldozing.
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