drive S1 W1 / draɪv / 动词 ( past tense drove / drəʊv $ droʊv / , past participle driven / drɪv ə n / ) #

1 vehicle

a) [不及物和及物动词] to make a car, truck, bus etc move along

drive to/down/off etc

I am planning to drive to Morocco next year.

the man driving the car

Can you drive?

So when did you learn to drive ?

Bye! Drive carefully!

He drives 12 miles to work.

He drives (= has ) a BMW estate.

b) [ intransitive always + 副词 / 介词 ] if a car, truck etc drives somewhere, it moves there :

After the accident, the other car just drove off.

c) [不及物动词] if people drive somewhere, they travel somewhere in a car :

Shall we drive or take the bus?

drive to/down/off etc

They drove back to Woodside.

d) [ transitive always + 副词 / 介词 ] to take someone somewhere in a car, truck etc :

She drove Anna to London.

I’ll drive you home .

drive yourself

I drove myself to hospital.

2 make somebody move [及物动词] to force a person or animal to go somewhere :

Torrential rain drove the players off the course.

With a few loud whistles, they drove the donkeys out of the enclosure.

3 make somebody do something [及物动词] to strongly influence someone to do something

drive somebody to do something

The detective wondered what had driven Christine to phone her.

drive somebody to/into something

The noises in my head have nearly driven me to suicide.

Phil, driven by jealousy, started spying on his wife.

4 make somebody/something be in a bad state [及物动词] to make someone or something get into a bad or extreme state, usually an emotional one

drive somebody crazy/nuts/mad/insane (= make someone feel very annoyed )

This cough is driving me mad!

drive somebody crazy/wild (= make someone feel very sexually excited )

drive somebody up the wall/out of their mind (= make someone feel very annoyed )

drive somebody to distraction/desperation

The mosquitoes drive me to distraction.

drive somebody/something into something

The factory had been driven into bankruptcy.

5 hit/push something into something [及物动词] to hit or push something into something else

drive something into something

We watched Dad drive the posts into the ground.

She drove her heels into the sand.

6 make somebody work [及物动词] to make a person or animal work hard

drive yourself

Don’t drive yourself too hard.

7 sports [不及物和及物动词]

a) to move a ball etc forward in a game of baseball, football, golf etc by hitting or kicking it hard and fast :

He drove the ball into the corner of the net.

b) to run with the ball towards the goal in sports such as basketball and American football

8 provide power [及物动词] to provide the power for a vehicle or machine

petrol-driven/electrically-driven/battery-driven etc

a petrol-driven lawn mower

9 rain/wind etc [ intransitive always + 副词 / 介词 ] if rain, snow, wind etc drives somewhere, it moves very quickly in that direction :

The rain was driving down hard.

10 drive a coach and horses through something to destroy an argument, plan etc completely :

The new bill will drive a coach and horses through recent trade agreements.

11 make a hole [ transitive always + 副词 / 介词 ] to make a large hole in something using heavy equipment or machinery :

They drove a tunnel through the mountains.

12 drive something home to make something completely clear to someone :

He didn’t have to drive the point home . The videotape had done that.

13 drive a wedge between somebody to do something that makes people disagree or start to dislike each other :

I don’t want to drive a wedge between you and your father.

→ drive/strike a hard bargain at hard 1 ( 18 )

COLLOCATIONS

短语

drive somebody crazy/mad/insane spoken ( also drive somebody nuts spoken informal ) (= make someone feel very annoyed ) The continuous noise was driving me crazy.

drive somebody crazy/wild (= make someone feel very sexually excited ) He drives women wild.

drive somebody up the wall/round the bend/out of their mind spoken informal (= make someone feel very annoyed ) That voice of hers drives me up the wall.

drive somebody to distraction (= make someone feel very upset or annoyed ) She was being driven to distraction by her husband’s bad habits.

drive somebody to despair/desperation (= make someone despair ) Escalating personal debts have driven many people to despair.

drive somebody to drink (= make someone so annoyed or upset that they depend on alcohol ) His problems had almost driven him to drink.

drive at something 短语动词

what somebody is driving at the thing someone is really trying to say 同义词 get at :

I still couldn’t understand what Toby was driving at.

drive somebody ↔ away 短语动词

to behave in a way that makes someone leave :

He was cruel because he wanted to drive me away.

drive something ↔ down 短语动词

to make prices, costs etc fall quickly :

We have to drive down costs.

drive somebody/something ↔ in 短语动词

to hit the ball so that another player can score a run in baseball

drive off 短语动词

1 to hit the ball to begin a game of golf

2 drive somebody ↔ off to force a person or animal to go away from you :

We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.

drive somebody/something ↔ out 短语动词

1 to force someone or something to leave :

Downtown stores are being driven out by crime.

2 written to make something stop existing :

As we went forward, our fear was driven out by horror.

drive something ↔ up 短语动词

to make prices, costs etc rise quickly :

The oil shortage drove gas prices up by 20 cents a gallon.

drive S2 W2 noun #

1 in a car [可数名词] a journey in a car drive to/along etc Let’s go for a drive along the coast. Taylor took me for a drive through the town. an hour’s/a two hour etc drive It’s a two hour drive from Calais to Thiepval. 2 natural need [可数名词] a strong natural need or desire :
The treatment will not affect your sex drive . 3 outside your house [可数名词] the hard area or road between your house and the street SYN driveway in/on the drive He parked his car in the drive. 4 effort [可数名词] an effort to achieve something, especially an effort by an organization for a particular purpose :
a recruitment drive for new members an economy drive (= effort to reduce spending ) drive to do something a nationwide drive to crack down on crime 5 determination [不可数名词] determination and energy to succeed :
Brian has got tremendous drive . 6 power [不可数名词] the power from an engine that makes the wheels of a vehicle go round front-wheel/rear-wheel/four-wheel drive 7 computer [可数名词] a piece of equipment in a computer that is used to get information from a disk or to store information on it hard/floppy/A etc drive → disk drive 8 sport [可数名词] an act of hitting a ball hard, especially in tennis, baseball, or golf :
He hit a long, high drive to right field. 9 military attack [可数名词] several military attacks drive into a drive deep into enemy territory 10 animals [可数名词] when animals such as cows or sheep are brought together and made to move in a particular direction 11 Drive used in the names of roads :
141 Park Drive