crowd out
crowd out — 慣用語
1. to push someone or something aside by taking up the space, attention, or opportu
排擠；取代
佔據空間或機會，使他人難以發展
to push someone or something aside by taking up the space, attention, or opportunities that they need to survive or succeed.
Hyun worries that digital books will crowd out printed picture books in children's libraries.
Hyun 擔心電子書會排擠兒童圖書館中的紙本圖畫書。
will crowd out [something] — expressing future displacement
Small family farms have been crowded out by large agricultural companies across the region.
該地區的小型家庭農場已被大型農業公司排擠出局。
passive: be crowded out by [someone/something]
Karim did not let extra work crowd out his weekend time with his kids.
Karim 不讓額外工作排擠他週末陪孩子的時間。
Food delivery apps have crowded out many small lunch spots that cannot afford the fees.
外送應用程式已排擠了許多無力負擔平台費用的小吃店。
Adaeze felt pop music was crowding out the traditional folk songs she grew up with.
Adaeze 覺得流行音樂正在排擠她從小聽到大的傳統民謠。
- make room for
the opposite action — creating space or opportunity instead of eliminating it
文法句型
be crowded out by [something/someone]
用法筆記
This sense works naturally in both active and passive voice. The subject of active sentences is the displacing entity (e.g., a large company); the passive version emphasises the entity being displaced. The subject is typically a smaller or weaker entity — such as a local business, a minority language, or a traditional practice — that loses its position to a larger or more powerful one.
常見錯誤
crowd out — 片語動詞
- crowd outbase form
- crowds out3rd person singular
- crowding out-ing form
- crowded outpast simple
1. to take up every bit of a space, leaving nobody and nothing else able to get in
擠滿；佔滿
完全填滿空間，不留空隙
to take up every bit of a space, leaving nobody and nothing else able to get in or stay there.
Fans crowded out the main square an hour before the concert was set to begin.
演唱會開始前一小時，粉絲們就擠滿了主廣場。
crowded out [place] — filling a physical space with people
Old furniture in the garage had crowded out Eric's bicycle and tools over the years.
多年下來，車庫裡的舊家具把 Eric 的腳踏車和工具都擠到沒有位置了。
Students had crowded out every library table, leaving Apinya nowhere to sit.
學生們佔滿了圖書館的每一張桌子，讓 Apinya 無處可坐。
Too many stalls crowded out the pedestrian walkway, forcing people to step onto the road.
太多攤位擠滿了人行道，迫使行人必須走到馬路上。
Quan tried to crowd the boxes out of the hallway for the movers.
Quan 試著把箱子從走廊擠出去，好讓搬家工人通行。
- clear
to remove things or people from a space, making it empty again
文法句型
crowd [someone/something] out (of [place])
用法筆記
Unlike the idiom sense, this meaning is regularly used in the active voice. It is also separable: the object can come between 'crowd' and 'out' (crowd the furniture out) or after (crowd out the furniture).