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driven 音标拼音: [dr'ɪvən] a. 受到驱策的
n.
vbl. 驱使,驾车 受到驱策的驱使,驾车 driven中断驱动的
driven表驱动 driven驱动 driven adj 1: compelled forcibly by an outside agency; " mobs goaded by blind hatred" [ synonym: { driven}, { goaded}] 2: urged or forced to action through moral pressure; " felt impelled to take a stand against the issue" [ synonym: { driven}, { impelled}] 3: strongly motivated to succeed [ synonym: { compulsive}, { determined}, { driven}] Drive \ Drive\ ( dr[ imac] v), v. t. [ imp. { Drove} ( dr[= o] v), formerly { Drave} ( dr[= a] v); p. p. { Driven} ( dr[ i^] v' n); p. pr. & vb. n. { Driving}.] [ AS. dr[ imac] fan; akin to OS. dr[ imac] ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[ imac] ban, G. treiben, Icel. dr[ imac] fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. { Drift}, { Drove}.] 1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. [ 1913 Webster] A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. -- Jowett ( Thucyd. ). [ 1913 Webster] Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. [ 1913 Webster] How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to drive one mad." -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his. -- Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [ Now used only colloquially.] -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] The trade of life can not be driven without partners. -- Collier. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. [ 1913 Webster] To drive the country, force the swains away. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. -- Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To pass away; -- said of time. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 8. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel ( the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] 9. to operate ( a vehicle) while it is on motion, by manipulating the controls, such as the steering, propulsion, and braking mechanisms. [ PJC]
Driven \ Driv" en\, p. p. of { Drive}. Also adj. [ 1913 Webster] { Driven well}, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also { drive well}. [ 1913 Webster]
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