jostling

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. 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。
4. There was a jostling crowd of on-lookers.
   看热闹的人挨肩擦膀。
5. Great things are done when men and mountains meet, these are not done by jostling in the street.
   成就大事，乃是人与山相遇；不是人与人在街道上拥挤。
6. Compounding the woes of white collar America, millions of cheap and diligent Chinese graduates will be jostling for a position in the global labor market.
   令美国白领更加痛苦的是，上千万廉价而勤奋的中国大学毕业生将在全球劳动力市场和他们竞争同一个职位。
7. The US carmaker and its rivals are jostling to be seen as leaders in new car technologies.
   这家美国汽车公司及其对手正争相成为人们眼中的汽车新技术领导者。
8. Pretty Simple is just one of hundreds of young French digital enterprises jostling to make a mark.
   PrettySimple只是法国数百家努力出人头地的年轻数字企业之一。
9. Yum still outnumbers its rivals, but in some malls it now finds itself jostling for space with McDonald's, Subway and cheaper Chinese outlets.
   在餐厅数量上百胜仍然超过对手，但在一些商场百胜发现自己与麦当劳、赛百味（Subway）和其它更便宜的中国餐厅竞争空间。
10. We joined the jostling crowd making for the only exit.
    我们挤进蜂拥的人群向唯一的出口走去。
11. Advertisers jostling for the public's attention.
    竞相吸引公众注意力的广告客户。
12. Once again we inhabit a world of great powers jostling for influence.
    我们又一次进入了大国争夺影响力的世界。
13. And could this jostling liberate those huge energies?
    而这样的挤压碰撞能释放出如此巨大的能量吗？
14. The development highlights not only the rapid internationalisation of the renminbi but how financial centres in Europe and Asia are jostling for a slice of the business.
    这一发展不仅凸显出人民币的迅速国际化，还凸显出欧洲和亚洲的金融中心是如何在争先恐后地从离岸人民币业务中分一杯羹。
15. Their seething resentment led to angry jostling between team-mates.
    他们炽烈的怨恨导致了队友之间的愤怒的倾轧。
16. The US labour market, he says, is determined by supply and demand, where workers and companies are constantly jostling for personal advantage.
    他说，美国劳动力市场由供需决定，为争取各自的利益，工人和公司之间一直有冲突。
17. When a dozen customers are jostling at the till trying to buy the same packet of cornflakes it probably means the price is too low.
    如果有十几个客户在收银台前抢着购买同一包玉米片，这可能意味着价格太低了。
18. You can rest assured that despite his jostling and wrangling, your Aries dad is always on your team.
    放心，尽管他言辞苛责，但他永远是你的好爸爸。
19. Jostling against one another under the domination of desires, who will think of lenient hoary mother?
    在欲望的支配下彼此倾轧，有谁想到仁爱年老的母亲？
20. It accused agencies of "jostling for position" and needless competition for funds.
    它还指责机构团体“争抢位置”、为了资金做不需要的竞争。
21. It is an unusually warm summer night in London, and the courtyards of the bars and cafes in Soho are packed with people jostling to soak up the last few hours of sun.
    这是一个异常温暖的伦敦夏夜，梭霍区的酒吧和咖啡馆院子里都挤满了人，大家都争抢着享受最后几小时的太阳。
22. Meanwhile, you spend years with jostling managers taking their eye off the programmes.
    同时，你花了数年之功与管理者争权夺利，把他们的注意力从节目上转移开来。
23. Many other firms are also jostling to become the main interpreter of corporate data.
    其他许多公司也正你争我夺，想成为公司数据的主要诠释者。
24. The act or an instance of jostling or shoving.
    推挤挤或推的动作。
25. The reason is that vendors compete with each other for customers and are continuously jostling for position.
    原因就是厂商之间对客户的竞争，持续地相互碰撞。
26. All those men were jostling with each other on the running track, as if the result was so important.
    瞧那些人在跑道上你冲我撞的，似乎比赛的结果真的就是那样重要。
27. Even though the desk is wide, keyboards and mice take up room, so there can be a lot of jostling and adjustment on the desktop, and chairs and such can collide as well.
    即使桌子较宽，有足够的空间给键盘和鼠标，同样会存在拥挤、调整桌面和椅子所带来碰撞等问题。
28. All the runners are jostling for first place.
    所有的赛跑者在为冠军而你挤我撞。
29. Someone who is jostling you is just trying to get your attention.
    其实，那个冲撞你的人只是想引起你的注意。
30. When does jostling for position become a foul?
    拼抢什么时候成了犯规？

noun

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

   Synonym:    jostle