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chock-a-block

/chok-uh-blok/US // ˈtʃɒk əˈblɒk //

挤满了人,挤挤挨挨的,挤挤挨挨,挤在一起

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extremely full; crowded; jammed: a room chockablock with furniture and plants.
    • : Nautical. having the blocks drawn close together, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a crowded manner: books piled chockablock on the narrow shelf.

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Examples

  • ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

  • Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.

  • Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

  • During his trek, Brinsley twice passed within a block of a police stationhouse and he almost certainly saw cops along the way.

  • Block 3F is slated for release in 2019, but who knows how much that will slip?

  • Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

  • He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!

  • All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.

  • The Spanish troops did not care to venture past a block of buildings in which were the offices and stores of a British firm.

  • Urinary sediments may be studied under three heads: A. Unorganized sediments.