throng: [13] The etymological notion underlying throng is of ‘pressing together’. It was borrowed from Old Norse throng ‘crowd’, which went back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *thringg- ‘press’ (source also of German drang ‘crowd, pressure’ and dringen ‘press’). Amongst its non-Germanic relatives is Old Persian thraxta- ‘closely-packed’.
throng (n.)
c. 1300, probably shortened from Old English getrang "crowd, tumult" (related to verb tringan "to push, crowd, press"), from Proto-Germanic *thrangan (cognates: Old Norse tr?ng, Dutch drang, German Drang "crowd, throng").
throng (v.)
"go in a crowd," 1530s, from throng (n.). Earlier it meant "to press, crush" (c. 1400). Related: Thronged; thronging.
例文
1. They throng the beaches between late June and early August.
6月末から8月初めにかけて、彼らはビーチに群がっていた。
2.An official pushed through the throng .
役人が苦労して人の群れを割り込んだ。
3.We pushed our way through the throng .
私たちは人ごみを押しのけた。
4.A great throng packed out the theater and overflowed into the corridors.
大勢の人が劇場に座り込み、廊下に人が押し寄せた。
5.The jubilant throng is like the waves of the sea.