1. | [i][t] 驾驶；开车to operate a vehicle so that it goes in a particular direction |
Can you drive? 你会开车吗？ | |
Don't drive so fast! 别开得那么快！ | |
I drove to work this morning. 我今天早上开车去上班。 | |
Shall we drive(= go there by car) or go by train? 我们开车去还是乘火车去？ | |
He drives a taxi(= that is his job) . 他是开出租车的。 |
2. | [t] ~ sb (+ adv./prep.) 驾车送（人）to take sb somewhere in a car, taxi, etc. |
Could you drive me home? 你可以开车送我回家吗？ |
3. | [t] ~ sth 拥有（或驾驶）…汽车to own or use a particular type of vehicle |
What car do you drive? 你开什么车？ |
4. | [t][usupass] ~ sth 驱动；推动to provide the power that makes a machine work |
a steam-driven locomotive 蒸汽机车 |
5. | [t] ~ sb (+ adv./prep.) 迫使；驱使to force sb to act in a particular way |
The urge to survive drove them on. 求生的欲望驱使他们继续下去。 | |
You're driving yourself too hard. 你把自己弄得太累了。 |
6. | [t] 迫使（某人生气、发疯或做出极端事情）to make sb very angry, crazy, etc. or to make them do sth extreme |
to drive sb crazy/mad/insane 把某人逼得发疯╱发狂╱失去理智 | |
Hunger drove her to steal. 饥饿迫使她去偷窃。 | |
Those kids are driving me to despair. 那些孩子让我都快绝望了。 | |
It's enough to drive you to drink(= to make you start drinking too much alcohol) . 这种事足以逼得人拼命喝酒。 |
7. | [t] ~ sb/sth + adv./prep. 驱赶；赶走；驱逐to force sb/sth to move in a particular direction |
to drive sheep into a field 把羊群赶到田野里 | |
The enemy was driven back. 敌人被击退了。 |
8. | [t] ~ sth 激励；促进；推进to influence sth or cause it to make progress |
This is the main factor driving investment in the area. 这是推动在这个地区投资的主要因素。 |
9. | [t] ~ sth + adv./prep. 击；打；敲；推to force sth to go in a particular direction or into a particular position by pushing it, hitting it, etc. |
to drive a nail into a piece of wood 把钉子钉进一块木头 |
10. | [t] ~ sth + adv./prep. 凿；挖掘to make an opening in or through sth by using force |
They drove a tunnel through the solid rock. 他们凿出一条穿过坚固岩石的隧道。 |
11. | [t][i] ~ (sth) (+ adv./prep.) 猛抽，猛击（球）to hit a ball with force, sending it forward |
to drive the ball into the rough(= in golf ) 将球击入长草区（高尔夫球） |
12. | [t] ~ sth (+ adv./prep.) 吹；卷；刮；冲to carry sth along |
Huge waves drove the yacht onto the rocks. 巨浪将快艇冲到岩石上。 |
13. | [i] (+ adv./prep.) 猛落；急速驱进to fall or move rapidly and with great force |
The waves drove against the shore. 波浪冲击着岸边。 |
You will really need to drive your point home. 你的确需要把你的观点阐释清楚。 |
You will really need to drive your point home. 你的确需要把你的观点阐释清楚。 |
I wish I knew what they were driving at. 我要是知道他们的用意就好了。 |
I wish I knew what they were driving at. 我要是知道他们的用意就好了。 |
1. | [c] 驱车旅行；驾车路程a journey in a car or other vehicle |
Let's go for a drive . 咱们开车去兜兜风吧。 | |
It's a three-hour drive to London. 到伦敦要三小时的车程。 |
2. | [c][u] 传动（或驱动）装置the equipment in a vehicle that takes power from the engine to the wheels |
the drive shaft 驱动轴 | |
a car with four-wheel drive 四轮驱动汽车 | |
a left-/right-hand drive car(= a car where the driver and the controls are on the left/right) 左╱右座驾驶的汽车 |
3. | [c] （从街道通向住宅的宽阔或私人的）车道a wide hard path or a private road that leads from the street to a house |
There were two cars parked in/on the drive. 车道上停了两辆汽车。 |
4. | [c] （团体为达到某目的而进行的）有组织的努力，运动an organized effort by a group of people to achieve sth |
a recruitment/export/economy drive 征兵╱出口╱节约运动 | |
a drive for greater efficiency 为提高效率而进行的运动 | |
the government's drive to reduce energy consumption 政府为减少能源消耗而发起的运动 |
5. | [c][u] （人的）强烈欲望，本能需求a strong desire or need in people |
a strong sexual drive 强烈的性欲 |
6. | [u] 冲劲；干劲；精力a strong desire to do things and achieve sth; great energy |
He'll do very well─he has tremendous drive. 他会干得很出色的，他干劲十足。 |
7. | [c] 猛击；猛踢a long hard hit or kick |
She has a strong forehand drive(= in tennis ). 她正手击球强而有力。 | |
He scored with a brilliant 25-yard drive. 他在 25 码外一脚劲射入球得分。 |
8. | [c] 驱动器the part of a computer that reads and stores information on disks or tapes |
a 750GB hard drive 750 吉字节的硬盘 | |
a CD drive 光盘驱动器 |
9. | [c] （惠斯特或宾戈纸牌游戏）比赛；玩纸牌的聚会a social occasion when a lot of people compete in a game such as whist or bingo |
10. | [c] 驱赶；赶拢；（尤指）围攻，围歼an act of chasing animals or the enemy and making them go into a smaller area, especially in order to kill or capture them |
11. | （用于路名）路，大道used in the names of roads |
21 Island Heights Drive 艾兰海茨路 21 号 |
