mobs

英 [mɒbz]

美 [mɑːbz]

n.  人群; (尤指)暴民; 一群，一帮(有共同点的人); 犯罪团伙; 黑手党
v.  (鸟群或兽群)围攻，聚众袭击; (人群)围聚，围拢
mob的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 暴民;乌合之众
  Amobis a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.
  1. Bottles and cans were hurled on the terraces by the mob...
     暴徒向看台扔瓶子和罐子。
  2. The inspectors watched a growing mob of demonstrators gathering.
     督察们看见越来越多愤怒的示威者聚集到一起。
• N-SING 大众（含贬义）；（尤指）愤怒暴乱的群众
  People sometimes usethe mobto refer in a disapproving way to the majority of people in a country or place, especially when these people are behaving in a violent or uncontrolled way.
  1. If they continue like this there is a danger of the mob taking over...
     如果他们继续这样下去，就有可能被暴动的群众控制局面。
  2. They have been exercising what amounts to mob rule.
     他们一直在实行相当于暴政的统治。
• N-SING 黑社会；犯罪集团
  You can refer to the people involved in organized crime asthe Mob.
  1. ...casinos that the Mob had operated...
     黑社会经营的赌场
  2. It was a Mob killing.
     这是一宗黑社会犯下的杀人案件。
• VERB 团团围住;成群围住
  If you say that someoneis being mobbed bya crowd of people, you mean that the people are trying to talk to them or get near them in an enthusiastic or threatening way.
  1. Her car was mobbed by the media...
     她的车被媒体团团围住了。
  2. They found themselves being mobbed in the street for autographs.
     他们发现自己被索要签名的人群围堵在大街上。

双语例句

• Mobs of young people lashed out against their elders and attacked the intellectual elite.
  年轻人中的暴徒鞭打和反对他们的长辈，攻击知识分子。
• The mobs became driven by a crazed blood-lust to take the city.
  杀红了眼的暴徒们意欲占领这座城市。
• Mobs of movie stars were crowding the bar.
  许多电影明星正把酒吧间挤得满满的。
• I watched mobs of masked and hooded arsonists in London and other English cities doing exactly what we did during the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
  看到那些戴着兜帽的蒙面暴徒（纵火犯），在伦敦和英国其他城市肆意妄为，那情形和我们在1992年洛杉矶骚乱中的所作所为一模一样。
• The act had a specific intent, to protect freed slaves from white mobs.
  这项法案有明确的目的，即保护被解放的奴隶免受白人暴民的伤害。
• Not many mobs playing that anymore.
  帮派份子现在也不玩了。
• Because the two of you will need food, cooking is a must have for the hunter so you can use the cheap wow gold raw meat that you loot from mobs to help feed both you and your pet.
  因为你们俩将需要的食物，烹调是必须的猎人也因此你可以使用廉价的黄金生肉哇，你从暴徒抢劫饲料，以帮助您和您的宠物。
• In China, he is a teen idol, regularly attracting mobs of screaming young girls.
  现在，他是中国青少年的偶像，所到之处能引发大群女孩子催情的尖叫。
• Mobs push toward the gates until it's clear no train is coming, Riminton said.
  人群于是推挤着向大门移动，直到大家很清楚的发现火车并没有来。
• Outside the factory, mobs of workers stopped an ambulance and police from entering the compound to rescue him.
  在工厂外，大量职工阻止救护车和警方进入厂区营救陈国军。