jostle

verb

1. （在人群中）挤，推，撞，搡
   to push roughly against sb in a crowd
   1. The visiting president was jostled by angry demonstrators.
      到访的总统受到愤怒的示威者的推搡。
   2. People were jostling, arguing and complaining.
      人们推推搡搡，争吵着抱怨着。

1. VERB （在人群中）挤，推，推搡
   If people jostle you, they bump against you or push you in a way that annoys you, usually because you are in a crowd and they are trying to get past you.
   1. You get 2,000 people jostling each other and bumping into furniture...
      2,000个人互相推推搡搡，撞在家具上。
   2. We spent an hour jostling with the crowds as we did our shopping...
      我们购物的时候，花了1个钟头在人群中挤来挤去。
   3. She was cheered and clapped by tourists who jostled to see her.
      那些拥挤着想见她一面的游客们朝她欢呼鼓掌。
2. VERB 争抢，争夺（关注、奖赏等）
   If people or things are jostling for something such as attention or a reward, they are competing with other people or things in order to get it.
   1. ...the contenders who have been jostling for the top job...
      一直在争夺这一高级职位的竞争者们
   2. There is a wide spread of stories jostling for coverage on today's front pages.
      有大量各种题材的报道争着上今天报纸的头版。

1. You get 2,000 people jostling each other and bumping into furniture
   2,000个人互相推推搡搡，撞在家具上。
2. We spent an hour jostling with the crowds as we did our shopping
   我们购物的时候，花了1个钟头在人群中挤来挤去。
3. She was cheered and clapped by tourists who jostled to see her.
   那些拥挤着想见她一面的游客们朝她欢呼鼓掌。
4. There is a wide spread of stories jostling for coverage on today's front pages.
   有大量各种题材的报道争着上今天报纸的头版。
5. For in the springtime flowers come in crowds, and the busy wings of bees jostle each other.
   因为在春天繁花盛开，蜜蜂的忙碌的翅翼也彼此摩挤。
6. The well-alignment of tubes is due to the base growth mode and the jostle effect.
   由于底部成长模式与推挤效应两者之作用，奈米碳管因而能整齐排列垂直于基板。
7. A few minutes later, all the students jostle for space around the microscope table set up near the stream and call out over one another: A leech!
   所有的学生都挤在小溪边的显微镜桌子旁边，与别的研究小组相互交流：一条水蛭！
8. Military officers may use the ballot to jostle for power.
   军官们也许会用选票来争抢权力。
9. The sector is experiencing unprecedented activity as local and foreign groups jostle to raise capital or strike deals to capture a larger slice of the world's fastest-growing markets for life assurance.
   作为全球增长最快的寿险市场，亚洲寿险业正处于前所未有的交易活跃期，本土和外来保险集团争相筹措资本或签订交易，以期获得更大的市场份额。
10. We managed to jostle our way to the front.
    我们设法挤到了前面。
11. Reporters and bloggers jostle for scoops and insight from the Demo ballroom. Here, CNET's Daniel Terdiman has begun writing even before the show has officially kicked off.
    记者和博客争相抢快，抢在演示舞厅洞察力。在这里，CNET的丹尼尔特迪曼甚至已经开始写在展前已经正式拉开帷幕。
12. Hundreds of pedestrians jostle each other on the streets, camels carry merchandise in from the Silk Road, and teahouses and restaurants do a thriving business.
    大街上的成百上千的行人摩肩接踵，驼队从丝绸之路带来各种货物，茶馆旅店生意兴隆。
13. I would spread it all at the queen's Road Central at noon and watch the pedestrian jostle with the money fiercely& that would be fun!
    中午时，我会全数撒下在皇后大道中，看著人们贪心地，如狼似虎地争夺它们－那一定有趣至极！
14. At the solar surface, convective motions of heated gases jostle the magnetic field line.
    在太阳表面，炽热气体的对流运动把这根磁力线冲来撞去。
15. Finally, at the third level what comes out, what is made manifest is the tension or clash among modes of production as they jostle each other historically.
    最后，第三层次，显现的是，不同生产形式之间的冲突，不同的生产方式在历史上不断地发生冲突。
16. They fear being caught between Washington and Beijing as the superpowers jostle for political and economic influence.
    他们担心陷入美中两个超级大国的政治和经济影响角力当中。
17. An assassin grimly carries his mission through the jostle of a carnival.
    一个行刺的人趁着狂欢节的熙熙攘攘，冷酷无情地去执行任务。
18. Messengers who jostle pedestrians on the sidewalk. They broke asunder, sidling out of their benches, leaping them.
    在人行道上与行人挤来挤去的送信人他们忽然散开来，有的侧身从凳子前挤出去，有的从上面一跃而过。
19. The non-air-conditioned cabin, already cloying in the monsoon humidity, fills with diesel exhaust as thousands of trucks jostle to pass through a toll plaza on the highway.
    车内没有空调，印度雨季的湿气使车里的人很倒胃口。阿兰格的卡车现在和成千上万的卡车挤在一起，争相通过高速公路上的一个收费广场。
20. As boats jostle for space on the lake, fishermen are getting desperately worried about their livelihoods.
    由于船要争夺湖上的位置，一些渔民极其担心他们的生计问题。
21. Certainly, valuation techniques will be an issue, as going-concern valuation techniques jostle with liquidation values.
    当然，估值方法会是个问题，因为在营企业的估值方法与清算价值出现冲撞。
22. THE fruits come in crowds into my orchard, they jostle each other.
    我的果园中，果实累累，挤满枝头；
23. To jostle your way through a crowd.
    挤出一条路通过人群。
24. But the United manager loves nothing more than seeing his side jostle their way into a position that will maintain their annual trophy challenge.
    但曼联经理最想看到的还是自己的球队走在正轨上，这将让他们继续争夺冠军。
25. Is television the only medium in which vastly dissimilar messages jostle against one another?
    电视是唯一一个迥异信息相互冲突的媒介吗？
26. Instead, he will head a messy government by committee where rival generals will jostle to control him.
    相反，他将通过一个委员会来领导混乱的政府在这个委员会中，相互争斗的高官会争夺对他的控制权。
27. What follows will be an exercise in posturing and brinkmanship by mobile operators and Internet companies as they jostle for advantage.
    随着移动运营商和互联网企业纷纷出手争夺利益，它们接下来将上演一场故作姿态与边缘政策的行动。
28. It looks like an idyllic rural spot, where bushels of red chilies hang from the eves of steep-roofed wooden houses and hay wains jostle with shepherds in narrow streets.
    这里本是一片桃源般的所在，木屋的尖顶上挂满了一串串的红辣椒，羊倌们赶着运草料的车在小径上穿梭，人呼马叫。

jostle for sth

1. 争夺；争抢
   to compete strongly and with force with other people for sth
   1. The visiting president was jostled by angry demonstrators.
      到访的总统受到愤怒的示威者的推搡。
   2. People were jostling, arguing and complaining.
      人们推推搡搡，争吵着抱怨着。

noun

1. the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)

   Synonym:    jostling

verb

1. come into rough contact with while moving
   1. The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train

   Synonym:    shove

2. make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving
   1. We had to jostle our way to the front of the platform