mob是什么意思_mob怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

mob: mob: [17] Mob is famous as one of the then new ‘slang’ abbreviations against which Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift inveighed at the beginning of the 18th century (others included pozz for positively and rep for reputation). Mob was short for mobile, which itself was a truncated form of mobile vulgus, a Latin phrase meaning ‘fickle crowd’. Latin mōbilis ‘movable’, hence metaphorically ‘fickle’ (source of English mobile [15]), came from the base of the verb movēre ‘move’ (source of English move).
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mob (v.): "to attack in a mob," 1709, from mob (n.). Meaning "to form into a mob" is from 1711. Related: Mobbed; mobbing.
mob (n.): 1680s, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1670s, probably with a conscious play on nobility), from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (the phrase attested c. 1600 in English), from mobile, neuter of mobilis "fickle, movable, mobile" (see mobile (adj.)). In Australia and New Zealand, used without disparagement for "a crowd." Meaning "gang of criminals working together" is from 1839, originally of thieves or pick-pockets; American English sense of "organized crime in general" is from 1927.
The Mob was not a synonym for the Mafia. It was an alliance of Jews, Italians, and a few Irishmen, some of them brilliant, who organized the supply, and often the production, of liquor during the thirteen years, ten months, and nineteen days of Prohibition. ... Their alliance -- sometimes called the Combination but never the Mafia -- was part of the urgent process of Americanizing crime. [Pete Hamill, "Why Sinatra Matters," 1998]
Mob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922.

词态变化

复数 mobs;
第三人称单数 mobs;
过去式 mobbed;
过去分词 mobbed;
现在分词 mobbing;
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权威造句

1. An unruly mob broke down police barricades and stormed the courtroom.: 一伙暴徒捣毁了警察设置的路障冲进法庭。

2. Bottles and cans were hurled on the terraces by the mob.: 暴徒向看台扔瓶子和罐子。

3. A mob of women laid into him with handbags and pointed shoes.: 一帮女人用手提包砸他，用鞋尖踢他。

4. They have been exercising what amounts to mob rule.: 他们一直在实行相当于暴政的统治。

5. 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。

近反义词

organized crime

相似短语

cash mob 快钱党（一群人在网上约好，在某一时间突然出现在一家商店，大量采购商品，旨在支持本地商品。）

mob stock 轮牧畜群

mob rule n. 暴民统治

lynch mob 行私刑的暴民

flash mob 快闪族指的是一群互不相识的人，透过因特网相约在指定时间和地点集合，然后一起做出一些无意义的动作，例如拍手掌、叫口号等。

mob law n.暴民法,私刑

mob scene n. 群众场面

mob cap (18、19世纪的)头巾式室内女帽

mob familie 黑道家族

the swell mob 衣着时髦的扒手们[骗子们]

单词分析

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记忆方法

1. "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble"。

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