Word · Frequency #20688
bulldoze
用推土机推平；推平
flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
- 1.
To destroy with a bulldozer.
用推土机摧毁。
- 2.
To push through forcefully.
强行推进。
- 3.
To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
像推土机一样推成堆。
用推土机摧毁。；强行推进。；像推土机一样推成堆。；强迫；用推土机推平/削平
In use
They had to bulldoze the old houses to make room for the new park.
The city is bulldozing the vacant lot next to the school.
Workers bulldozed the rubble after the building collapsed.
bulldoze sth
常见用法，指用推土机拆除或夷平某物。
The city bulldozed the abandoned houses.
市政府用推土机推平了那些废弃的房屋。
bulldoze sb into doing sth
比喻用法，表示施加压力迫使某人做某事。
He bulldozed the committee into approving the plan.
他强迫委员会批准了该计划。
Verb forms
base bulldoze · third person bulldozes · -ing bulldozing · past bulldozed · past participle bulldozed
规则动词；过去式和过去分词均为 bulldozed。
Common mistakes
Connections
Collocations
- bulldoze the site
- 推平场地
- The company bulldozed the site to build a new warehouse.公司推平了场地，以便建造新仓库。
- bulldoze old buildings
- 用推土机拆除旧建筑
- The city bulldozed old buildings to make room for the park.市政府用推土机拆除了旧建筑，为公园腾出空间。
- bulldoze something flat
- 把某物推平
- Workers bulldozed the ground flat before laying the foundation.工人们先把地面推平，然后再打地基。
- bulldoze a bill through
- 强行通过一项法案
- The ruling party bulldozed the controversial bill through Congress.执政党在国会强行通过了这项有争议的法案。
- bulldoze someone into doing something
- 强迫某人做某事
- The manager bulldozed the staff into working overtime.经理强迫员工加班。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记忆联想：公牛(bull)躺下打盹(doze)，把草地压平——bulldoze 就是推平、强压。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：建筑工地、拆迁现场 此义项指用推土机推平或清除（如拆除建筑、平整地面），多用于建筑工地、拆迁现场等场景；在工程报道和正式书面语中均属中性用法，无明显口语色彩。
Pronunciation & Spelling
doze, hose, nose, pose, and rose share the final /əʊz/ sound with the second syllable of bulldoze, but bulldoze is stressed on the first syllable, so they are not true rhymes of the whole word. lose is a spelling lookalike that sounds different: /luːz/.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.