bulldoze

英 ['bʊldəʊz] 美 ['bʊldoʊz]

v.（用推土机）推平某物；强迫；强力推动某物；毁坏；威胁

◉Usage Examples

(1) They bulldozed me into signing the agreement.

(2) The area was bulldozed to make way for a new road.

(1) 他们胁迫我签约。

(2) 那片地已被推土机推平用以修筑新路。

◉Etymology

From earlier bulldose (noun, literally “bull-dose, a dose fit for a bull”), equivalent to bull+dose. 词源自美国英语，最初用作土木工程术语，指使用推土机（bulldozer）清除或平整地面。这个词后来引申为强迫或蛮横地推行某事，通常指以强硬或无视反对的方式完成任务或目标。

◉Colins

1. [VERB 动词]（用推土机）铲平，推倒 If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer. [V n]

She defeated developers who wanted to bulldoze her home to build a supermarket.

她打败了那些想推倒她家房屋兴建超市的开发商们。

2. [VERB 动词]（用推土机）推平，清除 If people bulldoze earth, stone, or other heavy material, they move it using a bulldozer. [V n]

Last week, the department's road builders began to bulldoze a water meadow on Twyford Down.

上个星期，这个部门的筑路机开始将特怀福德丘陵地带的浸水草甸推平。

3. [VERB 动词]强行通过（计划等）；强迫（某人做某事） If someone bulldozes a plan through or bulldozes another person into doing something, they get what they want in an unpleasantly forceful way. [V n with through] [V n through n] [V n into n/-ing] [Also V n] [disapproval]

① The party in power planned to bulldoze through a full socialist programme...

执政党打算强制推行一个全面的社会主义方案。

② The coalition bulldozed the resolution through the plenary session...

政党联盟强行使该项决议在全体会议上通过。

③ My parents tried to bulldoze me into going to college.

父母千方百计逼迫我去上大学。

◉外刊例句

① The government bulldozed several historic buildings to make way for the new highway.（政府推倒了几栋历史建筑，为新公路让路。）

- The Washington Post《华盛顿邮报》, January 10, 2024.

② The company bulldozed through the environmental regulations to expedite the construction process.（该公司无视环保法规，加速了施工进程。）

- Financial Times《金融时报》, February 20, 2024.

③ The developer bulldozed the entire forest to build luxury condos, sparking outrage among environmentalists. （开发商推倒了整片森林，建造豪华公寓，激起了环保人士的愤怒。）

- The Guardian《卫报》, March 5, 2024.