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单词 drive
释义 drive
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
USE VEHICLE 使用车辆
 ESSENTIAL  intransitive or transitive
■to move or travel on land in a motor vehicle, especially as the person controlling the vehicle's movement 开(车),驾驶
I'm learning to drive.我在学开车。
"Are you going by train?" "No, I'm driving."“你乘火车去吗?”“不,我开车去。”
She drives a red sports car.她开一辆红色跑车。
They're driving to Scotland on Tuesday.星期二他们要开车去苏格兰。
We saw their car outside the house and drove on/past/away.我们看见他们的车在房子外面,然后就开车往前走/过去/离开了。
I drove my daughter to school.我开车送女儿上学。
Compare ride
driving while intoxicated (abbreviation DWI) US legal
■the crime of operating a motor vehicle after having drunk more alcohol than you are legally allowed to 酒后驾驶(罪)
Smith was arrested and charged with DWI.史密斯已被捕并被指控酒后驾驶。
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
FORCE 驱使
 IMPROVER  transitive
■to force someone or something to go somewhere or do something 驱赶,赶走;迫使,驱使
They used dogs to drive the sheep into a pen.他们用狗把羊赶进圈里。
By the end of the year, most of the occupying troops had been driven from the city.到年底时大部分占领军都被赶出了这个城市。
For the second time in ten years, the government has driven the economy into deep and damaging recession.这是政府在十年中第二次使经济陷入严重衰退。
A post had been driven (= hit hard) into the ground near the tree.一根柱子被砸进了那棵树旁边的地里。
[+ to infinitive] In the end, it was his violent behaviour that drove her to leave home.最终是他的暴力行为让她离开了家。
 IMPROVER  transitive
■to force someone or something into a particular state, often an unpleasant one 强迫,迫使,逼迫
In the course of history, love has driven men and women to strange extremes.在历史的进程中,爱情曾经迫使男人和女人做出荒谬极端的事情。
drive sb mad/crazy, etc. informal
 IMPROVER 
■to make someone extremely annoyed 使(某人)发疯/恼怒等
My mother-in-law has been staying with us this past week and she's driving me crazy.上周我婆婆一直和我们住在一起,她快把我给逼疯了。
He leaves dirty clothes all over the floor and it's driving me mad.地板上到处都是他扔的肮脏衣服,真要把我气疯了。
drive sb wild informal
■to make you very excited, especially sexually (尤指在性方面)使(某人)极其兴奋,使(某人)发狂
When he runs his fingers through my hair, it drives me wild!当他的手指掠过我的头发时,我兴奋极了!
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
PROVIDE POWER 提供动力
transitive
■to provide the power to keep a machine working, or to make something happen 驱动;推动
The engine drives the wheels.引擎驱动车轮。
Water drives the turbines which produce electricity.水驱动涡轮机发电。
transitive
■If you drive a ball, especially in golf, you hit it hard so that it travels a long way 猛抽,猛击(球等)
Slater drove the ball down the fairway.斯莱特沿着球道奋力击球。
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
be in the driving seat UK (US be in the driver's seat)
■to be in charge or in control of a situation 负责,处于控制(或管理)地位
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
drive your message / point home
■to state something in a very forceful and effective way 充分表达想法,透彻说明观点
The speaker really drove his message home, repeating his main point several times.演讲者数次重申他的主要观点,充分表达了自己的想法。
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
drive sb to drink humorous
■to make someone extremely worried or unhappy 使人焦虑,让人心烦
These children will drive me to drink!这些孩子快把我烦死了!
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
drive a coach and horses through sth UK
■to completely destroy a rule, an argument or a plan 驳倒(论据);彻底挫败,破坏(规章或计划)
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
drive a hard bargain informal
■to expect a lot in exchange for what you pay or do 极力讨价还价
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
drive a wedge between sb
■to damage the good relationship that two people or groups of people have 损害…之间的关系
It would be silly to let things which have happened in the past drive a wedge between us now.让过去发生的事情损害我们之间现在的关系是很愚蠢的。
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
  Phrasal Verbs   drive at sth informal
be driving at sth
■If you ask someone what they are driving at, you ask them what they really mean 意思是,想说明
I don't see what you're driving at.我不明白你的意思。
[draɪv] verb (drove, driven)
  Phrasal Verbs   drive off
■to leave in a car 驱车离去,驶离
I got in the car and drove off.我上车后把车开走了。
[draɪv] noun
ROAD 路
countable (also driveway)
■a short private road which leads from a public road to a house (住宅通往大路的)私人车道
I parked in the drive.我把车停在私人车道上。
countable
■used in the names of some roads, especially roads containing houses (尤用于沿途有房屋的道路名称)路,大道
12 Cotswold Drive科茨沃尔德路12号
[draɪv] noun
PLANNED EFFORT 有计划的努力
countable
■a planned effort to achieve something 有计划的努力;运动
The latest promotional material is all part of a recruitment drive.最新的宣传材料只是征兵运动的一部分。
I'm meant to be on an economy drive at the moment, so I'm trying not to spend too much.现在我打算勤俭节约,所以正在尽量控制花费。
[draɪv] noun
COMPUTING 电脑技术
countable
■a device for storing computer information 磁碟机
a floppy/hard drive软/硬碟机
a DVD driveDVD光碟机
a CD driveCD光碟机
[draɪv] noun
VEHICLE 车辆
countable
■a journey in a car 驱车出行;驾车路程
It's a long drive from Glasgow to London.从格拉斯哥到伦敦开车要走很长时间。
Shall we go for a drive this afternoon?我们下午开车去兜风好吗?
uncountable
■the system used to power a vehicle (车辆的)传动系统
a car with left-hand/right-hand drive (= in which the driver sits in the seat on the left/right).左/右座驾驶的汽车
a four-wheel drive vehicle四轮驱动的车辆
[draɪv] noun
POWER 力量
uncountable
■energy and determination to achieve things 干劲;魄力;决心;欲望
We are looking for someone with drive and ambition.我们在寻找有干劲、有抱负的人。
[+ to infinitive] He has the drive to succeed.他有取得成功的决心。
Later on in life the sex drive tends to diminish.人到晚年性欲往往会逐步减退。
countable
■(in sport, especially golf) a powerful hit which sends a ball a long way (体育运动中)大力击球
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