bulldoze

• vt. 强迫；恫吓；用推土机清除

bull, 牛。doze, 给予，见donate，捐赠，给予。即给不听话的牛一顿打。

bulldoze (v.)

by 1880, from an earlier noun, bulldose "a severe beating or lashing" (1876), 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.). Related: Bulldozed; bulldozing.

1. The party in power planned to bulldoze through a full socialist programme.

执政党打算强制推行一个全面的社会主义方案。

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2. My parents tried to bulldoze me into going to college.

父母千方百计逼迫我去上大学。

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3. Last week, the department's road builders began to bulldoze a water meadow on Twyford Down.

上个星期，这个部门的筑路机开始将特怀福德丘陵地带的浸水草甸推平。

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4. She defeated developers who wanted to bulldoze her home to build a supermarket.

她打败了那些想推倒她家房屋兴建超市的开发商们。

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5. Was she going to try to bulldoze him into submission?

该死的东西!她想把他压服 吗 ?

来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹