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单词 drive
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driveverb

uk/draɪv/us/draɪv/drove, driven

drive verb (USE VEHICLE)

A1 [ I or T ] to move or travel on land in a motor vehicle, especially as the person controlling the vehicle's movement:

I'm learning to drive.
"Are you going by train?" "No, I'm driving."
She drives a red sports car.
They're driving to Chicago on Tuesday.
We saw their car outside the house and drove on/past/away.
I drove my daughter to school.
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ride verb
driving while intoxicated abbreviation DWI US specialized

the crime of operating a motor vehicle after having drunk more alcohol than you are legally allowed to:

Smith was arrested and charged with DWI.

More examples

  • I asked him to drive more slowly, but he didn't take any notice.
  • The police fined her for driving through a red light.
  • The police spotted him driving a stolen car.
  • We drove along a narrow, bumpy road.
  • She drives the kids to school every morning.

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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles

  • aquaplaning
  • back sth up
  • boxed in
  • bump start
  • bus driver
  • car seat
  • carve
  • corner
  • dip
  • driver
  • driving
  • foot
  • manoeuvring
  • motor
  • motorist
  • mph
  • pull away
  • running costs
  • scorch
  • turning circle

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Crime - general words
Drunkenness & sobriety

drive verb (FORCE)

C1 [ T ] to force someone or something to go somewhere or do something:

They used dogs to drive the sheep into a pen.
A post had been driven (= hit hard) into the ground near the tree.
By the end of the year, most of the occupying troops had been driven from the city.
[ + to infinitive ] In the end, it was his violent behaviour that drove her to leave home.

C1 [ T ] to force someone or something into a particular state, often an unpleasant one:

In the course of history, love has driven men and women to strange extremes.
Recent events have driven the stock market to lows not seen in ten years.
drive sb mad, crazy, etc. B2 informal

to make someone extremely annoyed:

My mother-in-law has been staying with us this past week and she's driving me crazy.
He leaves dirty clothes all over the floor and it's driving me mad.
drive sb wild informal

to make you very excited, especially sexually:

When he runs his fingers through my hair, it drives me wild!

More examples

  • Extreme stress had driven him to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
  • His family could not understand how this quiet, well-adjusted man could have been driven to this terrible deed.
  • Self-hatred apparently drove her to mutilate her own face.
  • Her husband's violent and abusive behaviour drove her to the verge of despair.
  • She had her demons and, later in life, they drove her to drink.

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Causing somebody to act

  • a kick up the arse/backside idiom
  • arm-twisting
  • bludgeon
  • bounce
  • bounce sb into sth
  • bulldoze
  • force sb's hand idiom
  • forcible
  • hold sb to ransom idiom
  • impel
  • impose
  • railroad
  • reduce sb to sth
  • screw
  • shanghai
  • slap
  • slap sth on/onto (sth/sb)
  • squeeze
  • squeeze sth out of sb
  • trap

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Pushing and shoving
Causing feelings of anger and displeasure
Making people excited and interested

drive verb (PROVIDE POWER)

C2 [ T ] to provide the power to keep a machine working, or to make something happen:

The engine drives the wheels.
Water drives the turbines that produce electricity.

[ T ] If you drive a ball, especially in golf or baseball, you hit it hard so that it travels a long way:

Slater drove the ball down the fairway.

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Machines - general words

  • 3-D printer
  • automatic
  • backhoe
  • bot
  • cash machine
  • cement mixer
  • cloud chamber
  • compactor
  • contraption
  • cotton gin
  • crank
  • derrick
  • gadget
  • humidifier
  • lift
  • Mk
  • rotor
  • selector
  • sensitive
  • vending machine

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Hitting and beating

Idiom(s)

be in the driving seat
drive your message/point home
drive sb to drink
drive a coach and horses through sth
drive a hard bargain
drive a wedge between sb

Phrasal verb(s)

drive at sth
drive off

drivenoun

uk/draɪv/us/draɪv/

drive noun (ROAD)

[ C ] used in the names of some roads, especially roads containing houses:

12 Maple Drive

[ C ] mainly UK also driveway a short private road that leads from a public road to a house or garage:

I parked in the drive.

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Roads: urban & residential streets

  • access road
  • artery
  • Ave
  • avenue
  • backstreets
  • Blvd
  • driveway
  • lane
  • lollipop man/lady
  • main drag
  • main street
  • mews
  • parade
  • parkway
  • plaza
  • row 1
  • seafront
  • square
  • the whole street idiom
  • woonerf

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On the road: parking

drive noun (PLANNED EFFORT)

[ C ] a planned effort to achieve something:

The latest promotional material is all part of a recruitment drive.
UK I'm meant to be on an economy drive at the moment, so I'm trying not to spend too much.

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Trying and making an effort

  • a blitz on sth idiom
  • all-out
  • assault
  • attempt
  • attempted
  • bid
  • crack
  • go the extra mile idiom
  • go to great lengths idiom
  • God helps those who help themselves idiom
  • grasp at sth
  • grope
  • push
  • seek
  • shoot
  • strain every nerve idiom
  • stretch a/the point idiom
  • strive
  • strove
  • succeed

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drive noun (COMPUTING)

B1 [ C ] a device for storing computer information:

a hard drive
a DVD drive
a CD drive

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Computer hardware

  • 3-D printer
  • blackberry
  • brick
  • bubblejet
  • codec
  • handheld
  • joypad
  • Macintosh
  • micro
  • microcomputer
  • motherboard
  • mouse
  • ram
  • shift key
  • tablet
  • toggle
  • trackball
  • underscore
  • VDT
  • word processor

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drive noun (VEHICLE)

B1 [ C ] a journey by car:

It's a long drive from Auckland to Wellington.
Shall we go for a drive this afternoon?

[ U ] the system used to power a vehicle:

a car with left-hand/right-hand drive (= in which the driver sits in the seat on the left/right).
a four-wheel drive vehicle

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Journeys

  • adventure
  • break-journey
  • carpool
  • carsick
  • convoy
  • field trip
  • flight
  • foray
  • journey
  • mystery tour
  • odyssey
  • outward-bound
  • peregrination
  • pilgrimage
  • ride
  • round trip
  • sail
  • short-haul
  • the long haul idiom
  • trip

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The engine & engine parts

drive noun (POWER)

C1 [ U ] energy and determination to achieve things:

We are looking for someone with drive and ambition.
[ + to infinitive ] He has the drive to succeed.
Later on in life the sex drive tends to diminish.

[ C ] (in sport, especially golf or baseball) a powerful hit that sends a ball a long way

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Motives and reasons

  • cause 1
  • first principles
  • ground
  • hidden agenda
  • impulse
  • in the name of sth idiom
  • inclination
  • justification
  • mainspring
  • motivation
  • motive
  • name
  • object
  • peg
  • rationale
  • reason
  • should
  • wherefores
  • why

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Feelings of desire
Golf
Cricket

driveverb [ T ]

uk/draɪv/usdrove, driven

to cause or influence something:

be driven by sth The country needs to shift from export-led growth to growth driven by domestic demand.
This company is driven by customers and by the markets in which we do our business.

to cause something to progress, develop, or grow stronger:

The firm said it would drive sales by switching into larger premises while closing smaller stores.
The company yesterday reported record iron ore production for the year to June, driven by a construction and manufacturing boom in China.

to force something to happen or someone to do something:

drive sb/sth into/out of/to sth Analysts say these policies will drive the economy into recession.
The prospect of a consumer boom helped drive the stock market to new peaks yesterday.
be in the driving seat also be in the driver's seat UK

to be in control of a situation:

With employers fighting among themselves for staff, IT workers are in the driving seat.
He believes there will be consolidation in the airline industry and wants his company to be in the driver's seat of any merger.
drive a hard bargain

to expect a lot in exchange for what you pay or agree to:

The unions are driving a hard bargain on pay.

Phrasal verb(s)

drive sth down
drive sb/sth out (of sth)
drive sth up

drivenoun

uk/draɪv/us

[ C ] an effort to achieve something:

drive for sth The supermarket continues in its relentless drive for expansion.
drive to do sth They are expanding their telephone banking service for small businesses in a key part of their drive to cut costs and boost efficiency.
a recruitment/marketing/cost-cutting drive

[ C ] IT a piece of equipment for reading and storing computer information:

a CD-ROM/DVD drive

[ U ] energy and determination to achieve things:

We're looking for someone with drive and ambition to fill this important post.
drive to do sth She has the drive to succeed.

See also

disk drive
economy drive
flash drive
hard drive
sales drive
tape drive
test drive
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