| 单词 | drive |
| 释义 | drive (draɪv ) Word forms: drives , driving , drove , driven 1. verb A1 When you drive somewhere, you operate a car or other vehicle and control its movement and direction. I drove into town and went to a restaurant for dinner. [VERB preposition/adverb] He put the bags in the car and drove off. [VERB preposition/adverb] She never learned to drive. [VERB] Mrs Glick drove her own car and the girls went in Nancy's convertible. [VERB noun] Synonyms: go (by car), ride (by car), motor, travel by car driving uncountable noun B1 ...a qualified driving instructor. It was an outrageous piece of dangerous driving. 2. verb A1 If you drive someone somewhere, you take them there in a car or other vehicle. His daughter Carly drove him to the train station. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] Synonyms: run, take, transport, bring 3. countable noun B1 A drive is a journey in a car or other vehicle. I thought we might go for a drive on Sunday. Synonyms: run, ride, trip, journey 4. countable noun A drive is a wide piece of hard ground, or sometimes a private road, that leads from the road to a person's house. 5. verb If something drives a machine, it supplies the power that makes it work. The current flows into electric motors that drive the wheels. [VERB noun] 6. uncountable noun [usually noun NOUN] Drive is the power supplied by the engine to particular wheels in a car or other vehicle to make the vehicle move. He put the jeep in four-wheel drive and splashed up the slope. 7. countable noun B1+ You use drive to refer to the mechanical part of a computer which reads the data on disks and tapes, or writes data onto them. The easiest way to back up your computer is with an external hard disk drive. 8. See also disk drive 9. verb If you drive something such as a nail into something else, you push it in or hammer it in using a lot of effort. I used a sledgehammer to drive the pegs into the ground. [VERB noun preposition] I held it still and drove in a nail. [VERB noun with adverb] Synonyms: thrust, push, sink, send 10. verb In games such as cricket, golf, or football, if a player drives a ball somewhere, they kick or hit it there with a lot of force. Armstrong drove the ball into the roof of the net. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] 11. countable noun In golf, a drive is the first stroke a player makes from the tee. Woosnam sliced his drive into the bushes. 12. verb If the wind, rain, or snow drives in a particular direction, it moves with great force in that direction. Rain drove against the window. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: lash, pound, beat, hammer driving adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] He crashed into a tree in driving rain. ...rescuers battling through driving snow. 13. verb If you drive people or animals somewhere, you make them go to or from that place. The last offensive drove thousands of people into the hills. [VERB noun preposition] Every summer the shepherds drive the sheep up to pasture. [VERB noun preposition] The smoke also drove mosquitoes away. [VERB noun with adverb] Synonyms: herd, urge, shepherd, round up 14. verb B2 To drive someone into a particular state or situation means to force them into that state or situation. The recession and hospital bills drove them into bankruptcy. [V n + into/to] He nearly drove Elsie mad with his fussing. [VERB noun adjective] 15. verb The desire or feeling that drives a person to do something, especially something extreme, is the desire or feeling that causes them to do it. More than once, depression drove him to attempt suicide. [VERB noun to-infinitive] Jealousy drives people to murder. [VERB noun + to] ...people who are driven by guilt, resentment and anxiety. [be VERB-ed] ...a man driven by a pathological need to win. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: force, press, prompt, spur 16. uncountable noun If you say that someone has drive, you mean they have energy and determination. John will be best remembered for his drive and enthusiasm. Synonyms: initiative, push [informal], energy, enterprise 17. countable noun A drive is a very strong need or desire in human beings that makes them act in particular ways. ...compelling, dynamic sex drives. Synonyms: desire, need, urge, instinct 18. singular noun A drive is a special effort made by a group of people for a particular purpose. They plan to launch a nationwide recruitment drive. The country is leading the drive towards a low-carbon economy. 19. countable noun Drive is used in the names of some streets. ...23 Queen's Drive, Malvern, Worcestershire. 20. See also driving 21. what someone is driving at phrase If you ask someone what they are driving at, you are asking what they are trying to say or what they are saying indirectly. It was clear Cohen didn't understand what Millard was driving at. 22. to drive a hard bargain phrase [ADJ] If people drive a hard bargain, they argue with determination in order to achieve a deal which is favourable to themselves. ...a law firm with a reputation for driving a hard bargain. Phrasal verbs: drive away phrasal verb To drive people away means to make them want to go away or stay away. Patrick's boorish rudeness soon drove Monica's friends away. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Increased crime is driving away customers. [VERB PARTICLE noun] drive off phrasal verb If you drive someone or something off, you force them to go away and to stop attacking you or threatening you. The government drove the guerrillas off with infantry and air strikes. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Men drove off the dogs with stones. [VERB PARTICLE noun] drive out phrasal verb To drive out something means to make it disappear or stop operating. ...his efforts to drive out corruption. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] He cut his rates to drive out rivals. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Idioms: drive someone to distraction to annoy someone very much Nothing I said or did would get them to tidy up their bedrooms. It drove me to distraction. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers drive a coach and horses through something [mainly British] to severely weaken or destroy an agreement or an established way of doing something The judgment appeared to drive a coach and horses through the Hague agreement. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers drive someone round the bend [mainly British, informal] to annoy someone so much that they feel they are becoming crazy Can you make that tea before your fidgeting drives me completely round the bend? Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers drive someone up the wall to annoy someone a lot He's so uncooperative - he's beginning to drive me up the wall. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers drive a wedge between people to cause bad feelings between two people who are close in order to weaken their relationship I did try to reassure her, but that only seemed to irritate her more. That made me upset, and I started to feel Toby was driving a wedge between us. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: drive a nail Or the infusion of trained and supported leaders, or of better materials or methods, may solve problems without driving a nail. Christianity Today This uses gas pressure acting on a heavy piston which drives the nail. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The farrier then nails the shoes on, by driving the nails into the hoof wall at the white line of the hoof. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By arranging wires on opposite sides of building structural members, some protection was afforded against short-circuits that can be caused by driving a nail into both conductors simultaneously. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She told him she went against her will, and if he drove a nail into the threshold, she would remain all the time, so he did. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I spent the night driving the route in my head, fretting over one unavoidable, tight, busy, city roundabout. Times, Sunday Times Driving the route without sending any messages at all, the 43 drivers spent an average of 37.3 seconds looking at the road ahead each minute. Times, Sunday Times I could have driven that route with my eyes shut. The Sun She becomes even more suspicious when she hears him asking the clerk for directions, although he claims he has driven the route many times. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Have adults drive a vehicle in front of and behind the wagon. Christianity Today It doesn't matter if they never drive the vehicle, although you will invalidate your cover if you falsely claim they're the main driver. Times, Sunday Times Guests will be able to drive their vehicle into the hotel's car park and plug it in while they stay. The Sun Then she discovered that she would have to pay 100 a day in pollution taxes to drive the vehicle. Times, Sunday Times Perhaps if they took an interest in the privilege, not right, of being able to drive a vehicle on the public road everyone's journeys would be safer and quicker. Times, Sunday Times This machine is clearly designed to be driven fast around a racetrack. The Sun (2014) Who gets sick driving fast and presents a car show? Times, Sunday Times (2016) Ryle drove fast when he could, but he found the journey back to London extraordinarily frustrating. DOUBLE DECEIT I love driving fast cars around tracks, going off-road motorbiking or just karting. Times, Sunday Times (2012) If you drive recklessly and clip their cars, they will get angry and start hounding you on the track. The Sun And if you reach that level of responsibility before you are let loose on the roads, you are less likely to drive recklessly. Times, Sunday Times Not surprisingly, complaints are soaring about cabbies who don't know the streets, take the long way round, drive recklessly, overcharge or refuse to turn on the meter. Times, Sunday Times The two characters share surprisingly few similarities, other than perhaps the tendency to drive recklessly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Had the friend driven recklessly and hit a pedestrian, would he expect your colleague to take the rap for that, too? Times, Sunday Times The study looked at only one part of the detection system that autonomous cars used to drive safely. Times, Sunday Times But they do not explain why being a certain type of person hampers their ability to drive safely. The Sun It's very hard to know how to make people drive safely. Times, Sunday Times Too little sleep and the effects of travelling through different time zones radically affects ability to drive safely. The Sun Even very small amounts of alcohol dramatically affect your ability to drive safely... Times, Sunday Times We went back to our vehicles and then drove slowly over to the other side. Broken Lives (1993) Hugh drove slowly up to the cookhouse, where Matt had just stepped out onto the porch. DANSVILLE (1977) He drove slowly along the street, lights on against the gloomy drizzle of the evening, checking the house numbers. THE LAST TEMPTATION (2002) She drove slowly to the Mill Lane turning, signalled as punctiliously as if she were driving in city traffic. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL) (2004) She drove slowly out of the yard and stalled the engine again. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The motor reached a drive speed of up to 45,000 rpm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It can be raised or lowered at driving speeds of up to 25mph. Times, Sunday Times The electric roof glides back at driving speeds of up to 37mph, and you can take three passengers. Times, Sunday Times Local authorities must distinguish between residential roads and those routes that can safely allow higher driving speeds. Times, Sunday Times The three-piece roof opens and closes at driving speeds of up to 11mph. Times, Sunday Times The labor theory of value was now decidedly driven underground and the utility theory emerged triumphant. The Making of Neoclassical Economics (1990) Perhaps the snobs have been driven underground by the rising level of state-schoolers? Times, Sunday Times (2008) The burglars forced open a window and took the laptop, an external drive and a bag containing computer disks. Times, Sunday Times It's possible for a virus to sit on any part of your system, including an external drive, until called upon to do this. Times, Sunday Times I use an external drive to store my files and photos. Times, Sunday Times If you've already backed up any data to your external drive, it might be erased in the process. Times, Sunday Times It's a combination internal drive tray system and external drive. Globe and Mail Even his guest palace has a gravel drive, an immense garden folly and a wonderful art-deco swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times As we departed along the gravel drive, passing stone lions on columns that grandly guarded the entrance, we realised that we had been won over. Times, Sunday Times Does she live in a mansion with a gravel drive and a maid opening the door? Times, Sunday Times A gravel drive sweeps down to the garage and wild garlic grows outside the front door. Times, Sunday Times It's on a hill, reached via a long gravel drive. Times, Sunday Times The runabout's impulse drives are located between the wings and the vessel's body. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After firing a round, the initial recoil impulse drives the barrel, barrel extension, and bolt to the rear. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This modernist impulse drives changes in psychiatry, psychology and nursing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wrap, the anti-waste charity, will launch the drive on social media next month and will focus first on potatoes - five million of which are discarded every day. Times, Sunday Times He then immediately pledged $300,000 of personal funds, an amount equal to one-half of the projected building costs, to launch that drive. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As well as allowing them to vote, the union launched a drive to encourage the lapsed members to rejoin, but only 12,000 had so far re-subscribed. Times, Sunday Times He launched his drives straight over it, leaving a flick to the green. Times, Sunday Times The trust, which has launched a drive to cut refined sugar by 20 per cent, replaced the traditional recipe with one that contains pumpkin, sunflower and poppy seeds. Times, Sunday Times It lies down a long drive and is surrounded by eight acres of grounds. Times, Sunday Times (2017) You could drive or take a quick flight to Chicago after the wedding and pick up a car or camper van for the long drive west. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It is not fit for overnight stays, which are banned by the council, so owners must make the long drive home or stump up for a hotel. Times, Sunday Times (2008) After a long drive my first requirement on arrival at a hotel is often to answer the call of nature. Times, Sunday Times (2016) When we had a long drive my mum would always take packed lunches. The Sun (2013) The average motorist drives less than 30 miles a day and would only occasionally need to exchange batteries or recharge away from home. Times, Sunday Times Telematics technology monitors how a motorist drives, including speed, braking, acceleration and cornering. The Sun Some fuel companies simply store the details in case the motorist drives off without paying, while others are able to cross-reference the registrations against their own databases of known offenders. Times, Sunday Times Viewership for the pilot was very high, and a massive online petition drive helped turn the pilot into a series. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He attended, but was not nominated at, the state convention, and did not find enough support for a petition drive. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They contracted with a professional petition drive management company to pay $1.70 per signature for 450,000 signatures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Immediately following the ruling, a petition drive was started. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During this pivotal period, local community leaders decided to bargain away the petition drive for certain considerations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's a slow but scenic drive from here - even the paved roads are rugged, so hire a 4x4. Times,Sunday Times Even if it takes you out of your way, a more scenic drive may be less stressful. The Sun There are 56 miles of trails for hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking and a scenic drive. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A scenic drive shows park visitors some of the highlights, but it runs only a few miles from the main highway. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are 5,000 km of marked walking trails, plus routes for horses, bikes and scenic drives. Times, Sunday Times A short drive northwest to a small town, formerly a cathedral city, does the trick. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Wonderful woodland walks, three beautiful beaches a short drive away and pretty fishing ports to explore. The Sun (2017) The hotel is in peaceful gardens and just a short drive from the coastal path. The Sun (2011) It's a short drive away from open countryside and the coast and has three floors and two good-sized bedrooms. The Sun (2013) It was then just a short drive from there. The Sun (2016) Front-wheel drive became the standard drive system by the late 1980s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In other words they will find the inspirational, self-confident and professional teaching on which their standards drive will rely. Times, Sunday Times Her height and her fluent swing gave her amazing length and accuracy, so that at 16 her standard driving distance was a man-sized 280 yards. Times, Sunday Times The current permit system allows the likes of charity workers and teachers to drive a minibus of up to 16 seats under a standard driving licence. The Sun The power connections used lines that standard drives reserved for ground. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The marchs organizers also planned a voter registration drive and hoped that participants would be encouraged to vote in the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its position on the ballot was restored in 2003 after a voter registration drive. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The album proceeds were used to support a 2004 concert tour and an associated voter registration drive, emphasizing the swing states. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Voter interest has remained high, and the 2008 presidential election was preceded by a major voter registration drive. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the past, the reenactment has coincided with voter registration drives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 驾驶, 驾驶 Japanese: ドライブ, 運転する |
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