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N-COUNT
暴民;烏合之眾
A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.
例句
Bottles and cans were hurled on the terraces by the mob...
暴徒向看臺扔瓶子和罐子。
The inspectors watched a growing mob of demonstrators gathering.
督察們看見越來越多憤怒的示威者聚集到一起。
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N-SING
大眾（含貶義）；（尤指）憤怒暴亂的群眾
People sometimes use the mob to refer in a disapproving way to the majority of people in a country or place, especially when these people are behaving in a violent or uncontrolled way.
例句
If they continue like this there is a danger of the mob taking over...
如果他們繼續(xù)這樣下去，就有可能被暴動的群眾控制局面。
They have been exercising what amounts to mob rule.
他們一直在實行相當于暴政的統(tǒng)治。
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N-SING
黑社會；犯罪集團
You can refer to the people involved in organized crime as the Mob .
例句
...casinos that the Mob had operated...
黑社會經(jīng)營的賭場
It was a Mob killing.
這是一宗黑社會犯下的殺人案件。
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VERB
團團圍住;成群圍住
If you say that someone is being mobbed by a crowd of people, you mean that the people are trying to talk to them or get near them in an enthusiastic or threatening way.
例句
Her car was mobbed by the media...
她的車被媒體團團圍住了。
They found themselves being mobbed in the street for autographs.
他們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己被索要簽名的人群圍堵在大街上。