elbowing

柯林斯词典

1. N-COUNT Your elbow is the part of your arm where the upper and lower halves are joined. 肘
He slipped and fell, badly bruising an elbow. 他滑倒了，嚴重挫傷了一衹胳膊肘。
2. V-T If you elbow people aside or elbow your way somewhere, you push people with your elbows in order to move somewhere. (用肘部) 推
They also claim that the security team elbowed aside a steward. 他們還聲稱治安隊把一名乘務員推到了一邊。
3. V-T If someone or something elbows their way somewhere, or elbows other people or things out of the way, they achieve success by being aggressive and determined. (用肘部) 擠
Non-state firms gradually elbow aside the inefficient state-owned ones. 非國有企業逐漸排擠掉了那些低傚率的國有企業。
4. to rub elbows with→see rub