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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。
用推土机推平；推平
bulldozed — past of bulldoze
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用推土机推平；推平
flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
The city bulldozed the abandoned houses.
市政府用推土机推平了那些废弃的房屋。
用推土机摧毁。
To destroy with a bulldozer.
强行推进。
To push through forcefully.
像推土机一样推成堆。
To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
bulldoze
Base
原形
bulldozes
3rd person
第三人称单数
bulldozing
-ing
现在分词
bulldozed
Past
过去式
bulldozed
Past participle
过去分词
The city bulldozes old buildings to make room for new ones.
市政府推平旧建筑，为新建筑腾出空间。
They bulldozed the entire site yesterday.
他们昨天把整个工地推平了。
The crew is bulldozing the rubble now.
施工队正在用推土机清除瓦砾。
规则动词；过去式和过去分词均为 bulldozed。
They had to bulldoze the old houses to make room for the new park.
他们不得不推平那些旧房子，为新的公园腾出地方。
The city is bulldozing the vacant lot next to the school.
市政府正在用推土机推平学校旁边的那块空地。
Workers bulldozed the rubble after the building collapsed.
大楼倒塌后，工人们用推土机清除了废墟。
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。
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。
Not this
The old houses were bulldozer last week.
Use this
The old houses were bulldozed last week.
bulldoze 是动词，意为“推平”；bulldozer 是名词“推土机”。被动语态需要过去分词 bulldozed，不能用名词。
Not this
They bulldozed him sell his land.
Use this
They bulldozed him into selling his land.
bulldoze 表示“强迫”时，常用结构是 bulldoze somebody into doing something，后面接 into 加动名词，不能直接跟动词原形。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
强迫某人做某事
The manager bulldozed the staff into working overtime.
经理强迫员工加班。
强行穿过；横冲直撞地前进
He bulldozed his way through the crowd to get to the stage.
他横冲直撞地穿过人群，挤到舞台前。
强行通过；奋力推开障碍前进
She bulldozed her way through the crowd to the stage.
她强行从人群中挤到了舞台前。
强迫某人（做）某事
The CEO bulldozed the board into approving the merger.
首席执行官迫使董事会批准了合并。
强行推动（如法案等）通过；不顾反对强行推行
They bulldozed the new regulations through despite heavy criticism.
尽管批评声强烈，他们还是强行通过了新法规。
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记忆联想：公牛(bull)躺下打盹(doze)，把草地压平——bulldoze 就是推平、强压。
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。
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/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.