crush: [14] The emergence of crush is something of a mystery. English borrowed it from Old French croissir, but it is not clear where Old French got it from. Some consider it to be of Romance origin, postulating a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *cruscīre to account for it, but others suggest that Old French may have borrowed it from Germanic, pointing to the similarity of Middle Low German krossen ‘crush’.
mid-14c., from Old French cruissir (Modern French écraser), variant of croissir "to gnash (teeth), crash, break," perhaps from Frankish *krostjan "to gnash" (cognates: Gothic kriustan, Old Swedish krysta "to gnash"). Figurative sense of "to humiliate, demoralize" is c. 1600. Related: Crushed; crushing. Italian crosciare, Catalan cruxir, Spanish crujirare "to crack" are Germanic loan-words.
1590s, "act of crushing," from crush (v.). Meaning "thick crowd" is from 1806. Sense of "person one is infatuated with" is first recorded 1884; to have a crush on is from 1913.
双语例句
1. Put both vegetables into a bowl and crush with a potato masher.
把这两样蔬菜都放进一个碗里，然后用捣土豆器把它们捣碎。
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2. Franklin and his thirteen-year-old son somehow got separated in the crush.
富兰克林和他13岁的儿子在人群中被挤散了。
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3. Every-where he went he was mobbed by a crush of fans.
他所到之处都有成群的歌迷簇拥着他。
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4. The government is trying to crush a secessionist movement.
政府正试图镇压一场分离运动。
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5. Three people were asphyxiated in the crush for last week's train.
