stampedes
n. (畜群)驚逃,奔逃( stampede的名詞複數 ); 蜂擁
v. (使)驚逃,(使)奔逃( stampede的第三人稱單數 )
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。
Spiralling food prices have already triggered stampedes at supermarkets for discounted goods.
螺旋式上升的食品價格,已引發了在超市搶購減價商品的人潮.