elbow

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(yán)重挫傷了一只胳膊肘。

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(duì)把一名乘務(wù)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(guó)有企業(yè)逐漸排擠掉了那些低效率的國(guó)有企業(yè)。

4. to rub elbows with→see rub