steamroller

/steem-roh-ler/US // ˈstimˌroʊ lər //UK // (ˈstiːmˌrəʊlə) //

蒸压机,蒸压车,蒸汽机,汽轮机

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- : any similar vehicle with a roller.
- : an overpowering force, especially one that crushes all opposition with ruthless disregard for individual rights.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to crush or flatten with a steamroller.
- : to overcome with superior force: to steamroller the competition.
- : to bring about the adoption of by overwhelming pressure: to steamroller the resolution through.

v.无主动词 verb

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : suggestive of a steamroller; ruthlessly overpowering: steamroller tactics.

verbsteamroll

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I don’t know that people remember, not just our cultural role in it, but the roles of these systems of power, that the women were really crushed under like a steamroller.
The Donald Trump steamroller got run off the road last week, and getting back on track may not be easy.
His hard lines and angles project the arrogance of a confidence man, or as Arlyn Imberman puts it, “a steamroller.”
It was like getting a steamroller in motion to start Hickman.
Well, nobody can catch a sixty-horsepower motor-car with a ten-ton steamroller.