stampede
n. 驚逃; 人群的蜂擁; 軍隊潰敗
vt. 使(動物)驚逃; 使(人群)湧向
vi. 逃竄; 湧向
If there is a stampede, a group of people or animals run in a wild, uncontrolled way.
There was a stampede for the exit.
大家都爭先恐後地朝出口湧去。
If a group of animals or people stampede or if something stampedes them, they run in a wild, uncontrolled way.
The crowd stampeded and many were crushed or trampled underfoot...
人群爭先恐後地奔逃,很多人被壓傷或踩踏。
Countryside robbers are learning the ways of the wild west by stampeding cattle to distract farmers before raiding their homes.
鄉間強盜正在學習早期西部人的做法,先讓牛群受驚四處亂竄以轉移農民的注意力,然後再洗劫他們的房屋。
If a lot of people all do the same thing at the same time, you can describe it as a stampede .
Generous redundancy terms had triggered a stampede of staff wanting to leave.
優厚的裁員條件引發了職員爭先恐後地要求辭職的現象。
...a stampede by South African farmers to buy up cheap land in Mozambique.
南非農場主在莫三比克爭購廉價土地的熱潮
If people are stampeded into doing something, they are forced into doing it by pressure from other people, even though they do not think it is the right thing to do.
Do we really want to be stampeded in such a way?...
我們真的願意被這樣逼迫嗎?
It was widely believed that Powell had stampeded the Government into taking action.
大家普遍認為鮑威爾已經逼迫政府採取行動。
1. a headlong rush of people on a common impulse;
2. a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)
1. cause to run in panic;
2. cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively;
3. act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse;
4. run away in a stampede
Many events are held here and the most popular is the Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo.
許多活動都在此舉行,而其中最受歡迎的是玉米皇宮亂竄牛仔競技會.
After the first stampede the bodies of four children lay , crushed to death in the dust.
之後出現的踩踏事故造成四個孩子的死亡, 自此塵歸塵,土歸土.
Bronco riders perform in the famous Calgary Stampede rodeo events ( top right ).
野馬騎手錶演了著名卡加利牛仔競技表演活動 ( 右上 ).
But breathing can also help a stampede.
可是呼吸還可以幫助踩踏.
When he shouted & quot ; fire & quot ; there was a stampede to the exits.
他一大喊“ 起火 ”, 人群就向出口蜂擁而去.