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noun rɒkrɑk 1mass noun The solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil. 岩石；岩 the beds of rock are slightly tilted as modifier a spectacular rock arch Example sentencesExamples - Sulfates are a combination of sulfur and oxygen and are a part of naturally occurring minerals in some soil and rock formations that contain groundwater.
- The new works are spindlier than their predecessors and combine the pieces of rock and branch in unlikely ways, rather then following a naturalistic schema.
- Fields curve around jumbled outcroppings, huge chunks of fragmented rock appearing in time to halt a tractor before it barely reaches working speed.
- Groundwater will contain the minerals dissolved as the water moves through soil and rock materials.
- From the tectonic plates we see how volcanoes and earthquakes form, and how the earth recycles the air, water, and even base rock on a daily basis.
- Groundwater is water that lies below the soil surface and fills the pore spaces in and around rock, sand, gravel, and other materials.
- Ground and polished, it can reveal a subtle, colored matrix of gradated sands and rock, such as you might find along the edge of a stream bed.
- It is apparent that this is a rich man's tomb, carefully carved out of solid rock.
- As water moves through soil and rock, it dissolves very small amounts of minerals and holds them in solution.
- Vertical-slotted pipes made of plastic are installed and surrounded by porous rock, which acts as a moisture barrier.
- The rest of the men waited on a piece of rock inhabited by penguins, seals, and ice in the hope of their captain's return.
- The columns and roofs were sized and shaped to recall the trees and canopies of pine forests, while the concrete block base represents rock outcroppings.
- The varnish produces variegated earth tones on rock, concrete, and metal surfaces.
- Juxtapositions of rock and mineral make obvious reference to the powerful composition and structure of the Iceland landscape.
- Developed coastlines are often armored with concrete and rock structures to prevent property losses associated with shoreline erosion.
- Look into the hole dug into the earth for a future car park nearby and you will see that the street elevation is derived from the natural, shattered, fragmented pattern of the rock in the earth.
- Lighter than the surrounding solid rock, this liquid magma rises, cools, and crystallizes beneath Earth's surface.
- I have an aesthetic appreciation of rock as a geologist, and in turn people should be persuaded that geology is part and parcel of any appreciation of the world around us.
- The theater is a cavernous space, seemingly carved from a solid mass of desert rock, like Petra, in Jordan.
- With its stepped projections and striations of garbage and wood, this baroque construction evoked a geological formation of layered rock and sediment.
- 1.1count noun A mass of rock projecting above the earth's surface or out of the sea.
岩块；石块；礁石，暗礁 there are dangerous rocks around the island 这个岛屿周围有危险的暗礁。 Example sentencesExamples - Huge rocks jutted out of the ground, with no clear trail across it.
- Swimming was difficult and dangerous due to the heavy waves and jagged rocks, so Pinos adapted existing breakwater structures to enclose two new bays for protected bathing.
- He turned the movie's sets into an illustration of Inuit thrift and ingenuity, played against ice massifs, snowy rivers, a wide ocean, and lowland rocks covered in moss.
- Those who were not sold quickly were carried down to the rocks where the sea breaks, forced into dinghies, and rowed out to waiting ships.
- Stone was sourced from a local quarry where it is still possible to scramble around and observe a handful of small stelae, partially carved, but not quite freed from the mass of the rock.
- The inn is actually a front for illegal operations involving the luring of ships onto the coastal rocks where the crews are murdered and the ships' cargoes can be plundered.
- Pavers surround a rock that is left to emerge from the floor.
- Of course they have to break out of jail, and the posse who is hot on their tail gets turned back by a sniper in the rocks above.
- The rocky coastline is a near monochrome of pale blues that darken in the rocks and billowing clouds as though illuminated by moonlight.
- On the highest part of the rock on which the old city of Toledo is founded is the conventual church of San Marcos.
- One had to earn the right to surf beneath the dangerous pier, with it's exhilarating waves and threatening jagged rocks.
- At the centre of the building is a courtyard; in fact, the original patch of trees, rocks and earth that was here from the very start.
- Helen makes her way to Skerray, a tiny crofting community whose name translates as ‘between the rocks and the sea’.
- I went out into this absolutely beautiful country, the beautiful red soil, the rugged red rocks above the hills, and it just blew my mind.
- ‘The boat can crash into the rocks and still float, because of the plasticity of the skin,’ he says.
- He decides on Fiona, who is prisoner in a castle on a rock, surrounded by molten lava and guarded by a fierce dragon.
- More than half of Mandela's sentence was spent on Robben Island, a windswept rock surrounded by the treacherous seas of the Cape of Good Hope.
- Effectively, the rock is left exposed in its geological location, but cut free from its surround.
- Jagged rocks jutted out from both sides of the canyon.
- Uppermost Permian and Triassic terrestrial sediments conformably overlie the terminal volcanic rocks.
Synonyms crag, cliff, tor, outcrop, outcropping - 1.2Geology count noun Any natural material, hard or soft (e.g. clay), having a distinctive mineral composition.
〔地质〕矿石，矿砂 Example sentencesExamples - Karst landscapes are developed wherever soluble carbonate rocks outcrop and where surplus rainfall is available to dissolve the limestone.
- A main types of mineral phosphate, soft rock phosphate comes mostly from ancient sea deposits.
- The granite fines were a by-product of crushing syenite granite rock.
- The cave offers an in-depth view of the immense layers of limestone rock formed by the sedimented shells.
- Dolomite, a calcium magnesium carbonate rock, can be found beneath the soil surface.
- 1.3 Informal name for Gibraltar.
- 1.4Canadian informal
2A large piece of rock which has become detached from a cliff or mountain; a boulder. 巨石；砾石；卵石 the stream flowed through a jumble of rocks 这条小溪流经一堆卵石。 Example sentencesExamples - We are presented with abstract patterns of black and gray with flashes of white that only with time begin to coalesce into an image of water rippling over well-worn rocks on the riverbed.
- In order to trap him forever, the landowner pulls a rock, the size of a small car, over the cave mouth.
- With a free afternoon ahead, I hiked a quarter mile from Chopta, sat down on a large rock, and watched the sun descend in the West toward snow-capped peaks, a huge red ball sliding behind dense gray clouds.
- A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
- Lane advances toward Mrs. Lowe's hiding place and she begins shooting wildly, one bullet after another, even after Lane takes cover behind a rock.
- He too loves the way the light plays upon the crags and faces of the rocks but Roland has another relationship with the mountain, he is call out co-ordinator for the mountain search and rescue dogs.
- Geometric shapes, classical columns, shrines and sets of zigzagging stairs are combined with stylized landscape elements, such as rocks, a river, fields and mountains.
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight.
- It was so clearly identifiable as his work from the outset that I kept expecting either Ricardo Montalban or Kate Winslet to pop out from behind a rock.
- Watch for the scene where Sid is trying to get comfortable on a rock - he flops around, contorting his body into every possible shape.
- Should he have intervened, therefore preventing David's death, or did he do the right thing by just staying behind the rocks?
- They rolled over and over in the tumbling water, then finally surfaced downstream, away from the rocks - and far, far from the distantly barking pack of dogs.
- It crosses multiple blocks and is lush with trees, flowers, lawns, cliffs, streams, waterfalls, ponds, clusters of rocks, and outdoor terraces.
- If you hit a big rock, just feel your way around it, but don't lose your sense of direction.
- They decipher traces of ancient Platyhelminthe movement in the California mountains, on rocks that are over half a billion years old.
- I loved the endless hours I spent splashing in streams, eating blackberries off the bush, catching trout, walking the woods, sunning on rocks, listening to banjos and dulcimers.
- The ‘Stone fish’ has a deadly poison which paralyses you and they look just like stones so can be camouflaged amongst the rocks.
- He lies on a rock, a mountain looming above him and his naked body partially covered by a white dress.
- 2.1North American A stone of any size.
the crowd threw a few rocks and dispersed Example sentencesExamples - If you must ripple the pond, throw a small rock first and pay careful attention.
- I get the feeling I couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Baldwin.
- What Aranoa does is pick up that rock and show the teeming life underneath.
- My brother and I would pretend fight, I'd be knocked down, and then I'd roll down the hill while bumping against tiny rocks and other imperfections peppering the slide.
- At her house, he gets the attention of her bouncer by throwing a rock.
- You saw the scene with the kids throwing rocks at us.
- He and his friend throw rocks at each other and walk out of town.
- He kicked a small rock on the ground to the other side of the path.
- Because it was big and strong, people ran from it or threw rocks at it or chased it around, waving torches.
- Upon rushing upstairs I discovered he had thrown a rock through my window.
- In some instances, especially in the war zones, rocks were thrown at the screens.
- A switchback ramp scales a battered wall of rough granite blocks and you wonder if defenders will appear on the ramparts above and drive you off with rocks.
- If an animal threatened to get out of place, a hiss or a shout or a well-aimed rock would turn it back where it belonged, but such measures were not often necessary.
- Outdoors, a lone malcontent teenage girl lurks and throws rocks in the dark.
- He threw rocks through their living window and claimed they were being attacked.
- The film has one of cinema's most beautiful uses of an open exterior, when the husband throws a rock towards the nuclear plant just after dusk.
- Tiger also faced abuse at the hands of grade school classmates, who once even tied him to a tree and threw rocks at him.
- I just want to be old and nasty and live alone and throw rocks at neighborhood dogs.
- Alex kicked another rock in front of her and nodded.
- She shot small rocks on the beach from above at the time of day when the sun casts long shadows.
Synonyms boulder, stone Australian informal goolie - 2.2British mass noun A kind of hard confectionery in the form of cylindrical peppermint-flavoured sticks.
〈英〉（胡椒薄荷味）圆筒硬棒糖 - 2.3informal A precious stone, especially a diamond.
〈非正式〉宝石（尤指钻石） Example sentencesExamples - It's like a trip through a jewelry store that sells nothing but pricey diamond rings with big rocks.
- Instead of working with flashy, expensive rocks, he preferred to use semiprecious stones - and his wits.
Synonyms diamond, precious stone, jewel - 2.4informal A small piece of crack cocaine.
〈非正式〉石毒，强效可卡因块 crack sells for $20 a rock mass noun the police discovered six ounces of rock in his van - 2.5rocksvulgar slang A man's testicles.
〈粗俚〉睾丸
3Used to refer to someone or something that is extremely strong, reliable, or hard. 强壮的人；坚如磐石的事物；可靠的人（或事物）；冷酷无情的人；强硬的事物 the Irish scrum has been as solid as a rock 苏格兰的并列争球坚如磐石。 Example sentencesExamples - It was only sprung on us in the sense that at any point, we could have said ‘no’ and faced the rock that was our boss.
- Mia really has become the rock in this world, his key to becoming a better man.
Synonyms foundation, cornerstone, support, prop, mainstay, backbone tower of strength, pillar of strength, bulwark, anchor, source of protection, source of security - 3.1usually rocks (especially with allusion to shipwrecks) a source of danger or destruction.
（尤指沉船事故的）隐患，祸根；危险的源头 the new system is heading for the rocks 新的系统将碰到危险。 Example sentencesExamples - While his willingness to explore the darker side of marriage makes his movie more perceptive than many others, the film loses its way when love hits the rocks.
Synonyms in difficulty, in trouble, breaking down, practically over, heading for divorce, heading for the divorce courts
4rocksUS dated, informal Money.
Phrasesbetween a rock and a hard place informal Faced with two equally undesirable alternatives. the alternative was equally untenable—she was caught between a rock and a hard place Example sentencesExamples - As an investor, you are between a rock and a hard place if your company faces bankruptcy.
- It's a classic example of audiences putting composers between a rock and a hard place.
- As we will see, when it comes to inflation, the federal reserve is caught between a rock and a hard place.
- Thus, some workers may find themselves between a rock and a hard place after the normal retirement age is raised.
- The Utah Senator finds himself trapped painfully between a rock and a hard place.
- The army chief is certainly caught between a rock and a hard place.
- Seeger, like many artists and writers on the left during the Twenties and Thirties, found herself between a rock and a hard place.
- Rex to Miles: ‘My wife has me between a rock and a hard place.’
- With the mayor and the police force all breathing down Harry's neck, Harry finds himself between a rock and a hard place.
- Both she and the bank were between a rock and a hard place.
1vulgar slang Have an orgasm. 〈粗俚〉达到性高潮 - 1.1Obtain pleasure or satisfaction.
感到兴奋；获得满足
1informal (of a relationship or enterprise) experiencing difficulties and likely to fail. （关系）濒于破裂的；濒临毁灭的；完蛋；（企业）遇经济困难的；（濒于）破产的 his marriage was on the rocks Example sentencesExamples - Feigning being in love and making googly eyes isn't too much of a challenge; convincingly portraying a long-time couple whose relationship is on the rocks is the tough part.
- He finds himself a single dad, with a career on the rocks, living in New Jersey with his father.
- My relationship has been on the rocks ever since my boyfriend left our ballet company to join a dance troupe in another state.
- He may have been lucky in business, but his marriage is on the rocks, his daughter barely speaks to him and even his friend, Francis, holds little interest.
- At the time of making the film, the director's own marriage was on the rocks and he was romantically involved with an actress.
- His relationship with Sissy on the rocks, Bud takes to practicing bull riding.
- Her parents' marriage is on the rocks as she embarks upon a career in television news.
- The elder daughter finds to her consternation that her marriage is on the rocks.
- Like many American men of 35-40 today, he's adrift, not sure where the stream of life may take him now that his original life plan is all messed up and pretty much on the rocks.
- This film is a tragicomic ensemble piece about people on the edge and love on the rocks.
Synonyms in difficulty, in trouble, breaking down, practically over, heading for divorce, heading for the divorce courts in tatters, in pieces, destroyed, shattered, ruined, beyond repair informal kaput, done for, toast 2informal (of a drink) served undiluted and with ice cubes. （饮料）未搀杂而加有冰块的 he ordered a Scotch on the rocks Example sentencesExamples - This film is the thematic and cinematic equivalent of scotch on the rocks: golden and fiery, burning the throat, but continually surrounded and chilled by giant blocks of ice.
- While ‘celebrating’ in the hotel lounge (her idea of a party is scotch on the rocks and a corner to herself), she runs into Paula.
- He starts smoking an exclusive brand of cigarette and drinking single malt whisky on the rocks.
- My favorite drink is malt scotch, either on the rocks or with a splash of soda and a twist.
- There were a number of still lifes, including Dina's Nikes, a pair of red running shoes against a field of creamy white, and a painting of two glasses of Scotch on the rocks sitting on a black table.
- When not ‘landing’ a big client, she cares for her aging father, and sexes it up with her fiancé, who looks like he drinks Vitalis on the rocks.
Derivativesadjective noun adjective This seems to have its source in the rock-like stoicism projected by Cooper onto his native characters who are always ready for the worst that is coming to them. Example sentencesExamples - Even a rock-like drop in the dollar during the last two quarters of 2003 has brought no relief from chronically high US trade and current account deficits.
- Rock wool loose-fill insulation is similar to fiberglass except that it is spun from blast furnace slag and other rock-like materials instead of molten glass.
- Thus, you will be confined to somewhat small areas on which you can construct your base, generally represented by a hard red rock-like surface.
- He looked through the glass to see a large rock-like wall in front of them.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French rocque, from medieval Latin rocca, of unknown ultimate origin. The hard rock that makes up much of the earth came into medieval English from Old French rocque, which can be traced back to medieval Latin rocca but no further. The classical Latin word was petra, the source of petrify. People have been caught between a rock and a hard place since the 1920s, first of all in Arizona and California. Also American is on the rocks meaning a drink ‘on ice’, first recorded in 1946, while the slang term for a precious stone is 1920s. In France the modern form of the word, roc developed the form rocaille to describe the decoration using shells and pebbles fashionable in the 18th century. In the 19th century this was changed by French workmen to rococo, originally to mean something old-fashioned, but now used to describe the art of the 18th century. Rock meaning ‘to move to and fro’ is an Old English word. Rock music was originally rock and roll, which is first found in 1951, although a song called ‘Rock and Roll’ came out in 1934. Rock and roll combined black rhythm and blues and white country or ‘hillbilly’ music. Elvis Presley's first single, ‘That's All Right Mama’ and Bill Haley's ‘Rock Around the Clock’, both released in 1954, are often considered the first rock and roll records, but similar-sounding music was produced in the 1930s and 1940s by black performers like Big Joe Turner and Fats Domino. If you are off your rocker you are mad or crazy. A rocker here is a curved piece of wood or metal placed under a chair or cradle so that it can rock backwards and forwards. In the early 1960s rockers were also youths who liked rock music, leather clothing, and motorcycles, and were the sworn enemies of the mods (short for modernists), who were noted for their smart appearance, motor scooters, and fondness for soul music.
Rhymesad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, mock, nock, o'clock, pock, post hoc, roc, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok verb rɒkrɑk 1Move gently to and fro or from side to side. 轻轻摇动，使轻轻摆动，使轻轻晃动 with object she rocked the baby in her arms 她轻摇怀中的婴儿。 no object the vase rocked back and forth on its base 那个花瓶在底座上来回轻轻晃动。 Example sentencesExamples - As he cuddles his teddy bear, she rocks him to sleep.
- He rocked his body at the mike, rolled his eyes, pulled back his lips in elegant disdain, and finished each sentence with a sensual guttural trail.
- She rocked herself to and fro, and the tears gathered in her eyes and slowly trickled down her cheeks.
- I think I spent a week in a row rocking him to sleep, just speaking it over.
- Some women started cooking meal under trees while some others gently rocked makeshift cradles hanging from tree branches.
- I guess you just get use to being rocked to sleep every night.
- The floor seemed to be pitching, like a boat rocked by waves.
- As of this week, he no longer wants to be rocked to sleep.
Synonyms move to and fro, move backwards and forwards, move back and forth, sway, swing, see-saw roll, pitch, plunge, toss, lurch, reel, list wobble, undulate, oscillate Nautical pitchpole - 1.1 (with reference to a building or region) shake or cause to shake or vibrate, especially because of an impact, earthquake, or explosion.
（尤指由于撞击、地震或爆炸）（使）（建筑物，地区）剧烈震动；（使）摇晃 with object minutes later a second blast rocked the city 几分钟之后第二次爆炸使城市晃动。 no object the building began to rock on its foundations 房屋开始在地基上摇晃。 Example sentencesExamples - Both films take place in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that rocked northern Iran in 1990, killing nearly 50,000 people.
- Brimstone's ship was violently rocked by the explosions, but still managed to maintain their shields.
- Situated in a sensitive seismic zone, the country has been rocked by many earthquakes.
- An explosion rocks downtown London and shuts down the city.
- He is awake in the middle of the night and he feels as if the hotel is being rocked by an earthquake.
- Just then, the ship was rocked by an explosion.
- Then the entire world was rocked by a massive earthquake, which killed more than half the population.
- For the second day, a suicide blast rocked the city of Tal Afar.
Synonyms shake, vibrate, quake, tremble - 1.2with object Cause great shock or distress to (someone or something), especially so as to weaken or destabilize.
（尤指为削弱某人或某物的力量或破坏其稳定）使震惊；使苦恼；使不安 diplomatic upheavals that rocked the British Empire 扰得大英帝国惊魂不定的外交大动荡。 Example sentencesExamples - In 1839, the seeds of the civil rights earthquake that would rock the United States were sprinkled on a Spanish schooner named La Amistad.
- This incident rocked the Canadian province of Newfoundland.
- One young girl knows secrets that could rock this union to its core, and she's on the run.
- Corporate scandals have recently rocked the business world, shocked shareholders and the public at large, and led to the downfall of several large-scale firms.
- It rocks her contented world to its foundations when she discovers that her husband is having an affair.
- After initially taking the moral ground, Johnny finds the tables turning, and his own sense of self being rocked as he is forced to confront his past.
- All this took place in Cincinnati which was rocked by riots and violent protests in the preceding weeks.
- When tumultuous events rocked the world he soon forgot her.
- But even though my atheism was not rocked during the writing of Quarantine, it was changed.
- For the year 2001, the company was ranked as the 6th largest corporation in the world, but before the year was out, it was rocked by scandal and filed for bankruptcy.
- Boudu rocks the household to its foundation with boorish behavior and manners befitting a beast.
- Your utter disregard for everything that is good and decent has rocked the very foundation upon which our society is built.
- Particularly good though is Basinger as a mother wanting more from a wounded marriage, rocked by the memory of a painful incident.
- The film doesn't seem like much - just an odd little love story, not anything you would expect to rock your world.
- Mary's perfect little world is about to be rocked in a serious way.
- But our island's towns and cities have been rocked by their own lesser-known scandals.
- Merciless in its intensity, uncompromising in its brutality, this film will rock you to your core.
- The international tennis scene has been rocked by a series of drug stories.
- In 1974, when the Watergate revelations were rocking the presidency, the would-be assassin went over the edge.
- In the past two months, the fund industry has been rocked by allegations of ethical lapses.
Synonyms stun, shock, stagger, astound, astonish, amaze, startle, surprise, dumbfound, daze, shake, shake up, set someone back on their heels, take aback, throw, unnerve, disconcert
2informal no object Dance to or play rock music. 〈非正式〉跳摇滚舞；奏摇滚乐 he looked a totally different man and ready to rock Example sentencesExamples - In this case, the screen was bigger, the score was louder and the crowd was rocking.
- These guys knew how to rock - and did so for nearly two hours!
- The focus of the film isn't so much that this guy teaches kids how to rock as it about how he teaches them to rock.
- If the crowd is not rocking to this one beat, you gotta get it out and get the next record in.
- Dewey drinks hard, sleeps late, plays gigs in dingy clubs and, most importantly, loves to rock.
- While my musical strength may be in the Classical realm, I also know that Little Richard really rocked in his day.
- Whatever may happen in the future, the band are rocking hard in the present.
- Despite the odd venue choice, Billy Corgan and his openers still rocked out.
- Each of these rhythm and blues legends had the hall rocking to the sounds of the Sixties.
- 2.1 (of a place) be exciting or full of social activity.
〈喻〉欢欣雀跃，热闹非凡 the new town really rocks 这个新城镇确实热闹非凡。 - 2.2 Be very good or pleasing.
很好；使高兴，使满意 this is when the job really rocks 这就是工作真正令人满意的时刻。 Example sentencesExamples - I just recently played "House Of Flying Daggers" and it rocked!
- And you will see why he rocks.
- The video tells the story of the band and it rocks!
- Because they rocked and we wished we could have stayed longer.
- " The typical comment is, ' Dude, you rock!, '
- I don't know but, either way, they rock.
3informal with object Wear (a garment) or affect (an attitude or style), especially in a confident or flamboyant way. 〈非正式〉（尤指自信或惹人注目地）穿（衣）；炫耀地表现出（态度或风格） she was rocking a clingy little leopard-skin number 她穿了一件小巧的紧身豹皮衣服到处显摆。
noun rɒkrɑk 1mass noun Rock music. 摇滚乐 the store plays a peculiar blend of 70s and 80s rock as modifier a rock concert Example sentencesExamples - My dad had booked a special reunion concert by 80s rock legends, Dire Straits.
- Back in the '60s and '70s I listened to Gordon Lightfoot a fair bit when I wanted to take a break from the harder rock that was the staple of my listening.
- The debt owed to past blues musicians by the giants of the rock industry - Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin among others - becomes apparent when you listen to their music.
- One reason I really like the '70s era of rock, besides the fact I was a young man then, was that it was an era where musicians really tried to reach for the pinnacle of their abilities in their music.
- He had organised a rock concert to coincide with one of the city's major sporting events.
- The movie is a disappointment, and could have been a lot better if only he had gone out on a few more limbs than just the inclusion of a few rock tunes.
- I was a fan of the band back in the '60s, before I got turned on to harder rock.
- The music is a bizarre score of upbeat string numbers, samba tunes, jazz numbers, rock ballads, and every other style thrown together in a peculiar 1980s-esque synthesized sort of way.
- This is about as close to the sensory overload of a rock concert without actually being at a rock concert.
- We were all squealing like kids at a rock concert.
- Rock movies, like rock songs, need not be original to be successful: get the chords right and the arrangements scarcely matter.
- Before disco undermined the morale and minds of millions, rock rode the rails of success, scoring the soundtrack for that personal motion picture you were playing in your head.
- He beat out no less than Sting and Paul McCartney, two rock idols who performed their own nominated songs.
- The book tells of William's initiation into journalism and his adventures in the rock industry.
- Jill looked stunning, but she wasn't really dressed for a rock concert.
- The alternative rock soundtrack is wonderfully raw as it blares from the speakers.
- 1.1 Rock and roll.
摇滚乐；摇滚舞 Example sentencesExamples - It is a film for everyone, both those who were touched by this era of rock and those who just remember that fleeting second when the world didn't slow down.
- It made me want to run out and start a rockabilly band to pay tribute to rock's greatest geek.
2A gentle movement to and fro or from side to side. 轻轻摇动，使轻轻摆动，使轻轻晃动 she placed the baby in the cot and gave it a rock 她把婴儿放在小床上，轻轻摇动。
Phrasal VerbsPerform rock music loudly and vigorously. 〈非正式〉如痴如狂地奏摇滚乐 the Waterboys rock out fiercely in one of the most anthemic tracks the band has recorded Example sentencesExamples - The self-confident singer rocked out, freestyled with natural ease and steamed up the room with poetry and poise and an intense, extended version of ‘Sun Again.’
- Merely watching the two beautiful females in the group rock out is enough.
- The Canadian guitar god should have been dressed in a schoolboy uniform as he rocked out like AC/DC throughout the performance.
- They rock out with unexpected intensity, but the song ends quickly, leaving the listener hoping for the band to flex their rock muscles a bit more.
- The vocalist speaks rather than sings, and the band rocks out more than it has in the past.
- Performing a variety of songs from all three albums, the band rocked out on a dynamic rollercoaster that ranged from the softest melodies to pounding virtual thrash metal.
- With just a square black stage and some colourful lights, it almost felt like the group were rocking out at their local bar - except for the thousands of screaming hordes.
- He never really came close to rocking out with conviction over the past 20-plus years like he did at the start of his career - until now.
- When they aren't rocking out, the band do what they can to encourage their fans to become politically aware and get out to the voting polls.
- For whatever reason, I believe band possesses this propensity for rocking out.
Arrive; turn up. 〈英，非正式〉到达；出现 they rocked up at about 2.00 p.m 他们大约是下午两点到的。 Example sentencesExamples - Then Anthony and Lance rocked up with a bottle of Cointreau.
- I was not surprised when Suede rocked up ripping off Bowie.
- The police, who rocked up much later, say the matter is regarded as a ‘disturbance’.
- On Saturday morning, about 4000 squatters rocked up at a piece of land in the Bredell area in South Africa's industrial heartland, the Gauteng province.
- Yesterday, the father that I had never seen in ten years rocks up and wants me to become a part of the mafia.
- Shovell fans out there in user land keep rocking up.
- Oh, yeah, and can you see me rocking up to school like this?
- The crew usually called before they just rocked up.
- It wasn't a ghost that rocked up at the Veterinary Clinic in Selborne, 10 days ago.
- They were not getting any support from the police who almost always ‘only rocked up when someone had already died’.
- I rocked up to head office in Dunedin and said I'd like to be a nurse.
- Do you really think that the brave old blokes from the 28th Maori Battalion who defended Crete would appreciate people this like rocking up to a dawn service?
- I do, however, have visions of him rocking up on my doorstep and that thought mostly horrifies me.
- Terrance rocked up not much later and not long after that we left.
- I am planning on rocking up to a few theatres at the 6.30 mark and seeing whether there are stand by ticket for anything I'm interested in seeing.
- I slid into the seat, all too aware of the fact that all conversation had died the second I'd rocked up to the table.
- The basic premise is that the band rocks up in an unlikely spot and plays furiously until they are evicted.
- I've been living abroad for three years now but when I lived in Melbourne this was the only place I rocked up to on a Sunday.
OriginLate Old English roccian, probably from a Germanic base meaning 'remove, move'; related to Dutch rukken 'jerk, tug' and German rücken 'move'. The noun dates from the early 19th century. nounräkrɑk 1The solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil or oceans. 岩石；岩 Example sentencesExamples - The rest of the men waited on a piece of rock inhabited by penguins, seals, and ice in the hope of their captain's return.
- The columns and roofs were sized and shaped to recall the trees and canopies of pine forests, while the concrete block base represents rock outcroppings.
- From the tectonic plates we see how volcanoes and earthquakes form, and how the earth recycles the air, water, and even base rock on a daily basis.
- Developed coastlines are often armored with concrete and rock structures to prevent property losses associated with shoreline erosion.
- Ground and polished, it can reveal a subtle, colored matrix of gradated sands and rock, such as you might find along the edge of a stream bed.
- As water moves through soil and rock, it dissolves very small amounts of minerals and holds them in solution.
- Look into the hole dug into the earth for a future car park nearby and you will see that the street elevation is derived from the natural, shattered, fragmented pattern of the rock in the earth.
- It is apparent that this is a rich man's tomb, carefully carved out of solid rock.
- The new works are spindlier than their predecessors and combine the pieces of rock and branch in unlikely ways, rather then following a naturalistic schema.
- I have an aesthetic appreciation of rock as a geologist, and in turn people should be persuaded that geology is part and parcel of any appreciation of the world around us.
- With its stepped projections and striations of garbage and wood, this baroque construction evoked a geological formation of layered rock and sediment.
- Fields curve around jumbled outcroppings, huge chunks of fragmented rock appearing in time to halt a tractor before it barely reaches working speed.
- Lighter than the surrounding solid rock, this liquid magma rises, cools, and crystallizes beneath Earth's surface.
- Groundwater is water that lies below the soil surface and fills the pore spaces in and around rock, sand, gravel, and other materials.
- Groundwater will contain the minerals dissolved as the water moves through soil and rock materials.
- Vertical-slotted pipes made of plastic are installed and surrounded by porous rock, which acts as a moisture barrier.
- The theater is a cavernous space, seemingly carved from a solid mass of desert rock, like Petra, in Jordan.
- The varnish produces variegated earth tones on rock, concrete, and metal surfaces.
- Juxtapositions of rock and mineral make obvious reference to the powerful composition and structure of the Iceland landscape.
- Sulfates are a combination of sulfur and oxygen and are a part of naturally occurring minerals in some soil and rock formations that contain groundwater.
- 1.1 A mass of rock projecting above the earth's surface or out of the sea.
岩块；石块；礁石，暗礁 there are dangerous rocks around the island 这个岛屿周围有危险的暗礁。 Example sentencesExamples - Swimming was difficult and dangerous due to the heavy waves and jagged rocks, so Pinos adapted existing breakwater structures to enclose two new bays for protected bathing.
- Helen makes her way to Skerray, a tiny crofting community whose name translates as ‘between the rocks and the sea’.
- One had to earn the right to surf beneath the dangerous pier, with it's exhilarating waves and threatening jagged rocks.
- More than half of Mandela's sentence was spent on Robben Island, a windswept rock surrounded by the treacherous seas of the Cape of Good Hope.
- Pavers surround a rock that is left to emerge from the floor.
- The rocky coastline is a near monochrome of pale blues that darken in the rocks and billowing clouds as though illuminated by moonlight.
- ‘The boat can crash into the rocks and still float, because of the plasticity of the skin,’ he says.
- I went out into this absolutely beautiful country, the beautiful red soil, the rugged red rocks above the hills, and it just blew my mind.
- The inn is actually a front for illegal operations involving the luring of ships onto the coastal rocks where the crews are murdered and the ships' cargoes can be plundered.
- He decides on Fiona, who is prisoner in a castle on a rock, surrounded by molten lava and guarded by a fierce dragon.
- Stone was sourced from a local quarry where it is still possible to scramble around and observe a handful of small stelae, partially carved, but not quite freed from the mass of the rock.
- Huge rocks jutted out of the ground, with no clear trail across it.
- Jagged rocks jutted out from both sides of the canyon.
- On the highest part of the rock on which the old city of Toledo is founded is the conventual church of San Marcos.
- Effectively, the rock is left exposed in its geological location, but cut free from its surround.
- Uppermost Permian and Triassic terrestrial sediments conformably overlie the terminal volcanic rocks.
- Of course they have to break out of jail, and the posse who is hot on their tail gets turned back by a sniper in the rocks above.
- Those who were not sold quickly were carried down to the rocks where the sea breaks, forced into dinghies, and rowed out to waiting ships.
- At the centre of the building is a courtyard; in fact, the original patch of trees, rocks and earth that was here from the very start.
- He turned the movie's sets into an illustration of Inuit thrift and ingenuity, played against ice massifs, snowy rivers, a wide ocean, and lowland rocks covered in moss.
Synonyms crag, cliff, tor, outcrop, outcropping - 1.2Geology Any natural material, hard or soft (e.g. clay), having a distinctive mineral composition.
〔地质〕矿石，矿砂 Example sentencesExamples - Karst landscapes are developed wherever soluble carbonate rocks outcrop and where surplus rainfall is available to dissolve the limestone.
- The granite fines were a by-product of crushing syenite granite rock.
- A main types of mineral phosphate, soft rock phosphate comes mostly from ancient sea deposits.
- The cave offers an in-depth view of the immense layers of limestone rock formed by the sedimented shells.
- Dolomite, a calcium magnesium carbonate rock, can be found beneath the soil surface.
- 1.3the Rock Gibraltar.
直布罗陀 - 1.4the RockCanadian informal
2A large piece of rock which has become detached from a cliff or mountain; a boulder. 巨石；砾石；卵石 the stream flowed through a jumble of rocks 这条小溪流经一堆卵石。 Example sentencesExamples - A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight.
- In order to trap him forever, the landowner pulls a rock, the size of a small car, over the cave mouth.
- Watch for the scene where Sid is trying to get comfortable on a rock - he flops around, contorting his body into every possible shape.
- He lies on a rock, a mountain looming above him and his naked body partially covered by a white dress.
- The ‘Stone fish’ has a deadly poison which paralyses you and they look just like stones so can be camouflaged amongst the rocks.
- Geometric shapes, classical columns, shrines and sets of zigzagging stairs are combined with stylized landscape elements, such as rocks, a river, fields and mountains.
- They decipher traces of ancient Platyhelminthe movement in the California mountains, on rocks that are over half a billion years old.
- We are presented with abstract patterns of black and gray with flashes of white that only with time begin to coalesce into an image of water rippling over well-worn rocks on the riverbed.
- With a free afternoon ahead, I hiked a quarter mile from Chopta, sat down on a large rock, and watched the sun descend in the West toward snow-capped peaks, a huge red ball sliding behind dense gray clouds.
- They rolled over and over in the tumbling water, then finally surfaced downstream, away from the rocks - and far, far from the distantly barking pack of dogs.
- He too loves the way the light plays upon the crags and faces of the rocks but Roland has another relationship with the mountain, he is call out co-ordinator for the mountain search and rescue dogs.
- Should he have intervened, therefore preventing David's death, or did he do the right thing by just staying behind the rocks?
- It was so clearly identifiable as his work from the outset that I kept expecting either Ricardo Montalban or Kate Winslet to pop out from behind a rock.
- If you hit a big rock, just feel your way around it, but don't lose your sense of direction.
- I loved the endless hours I spent splashing in streams, eating blackberries off the bush, catching trout, walking the woods, sunning on rocks, listening to banjos and dulcimers.
- Lane advances toward Mrs. Lowe's hiding place and she begins shooting wildly, one bullet after another, even after Lane takes cover behind a rock.
- It crosses multiple blocks and is lush with trees, flowers, lawns, cliffs, streams, waterfalls, ponds, clusters of rocks, and outdoor terraces.
- 2.1North American A stone of any size, especially one small enough to be picked up and used as a projectile.
石子 Example sentencesExamples - I just want to be old and nasty and live alone and throw rocks at neighborhood dogs.
- The film has one of cinema's most beautiful uses of an open exterior, when the husband throws a rock towards the nuclear plant just after dusk.
- He and his friend throw rocks at each other and walk out of town.
- Outdoors, a lone malcontent teenage girl lurks and throws rocks in the dark.
- Because it was big and strong, people ran from it or threw rocks at it or chased it around, waving torches.
- Upon rushing upstairs I discovered he had thrown a rock through my window.
- You saw the scene with the kids throwing rocks at us.
- If an animal threatened to get out of place, a hiss or a shout or a well-aimed rock would turn it back where it belonged, but such measures were not often necessary.
- What Aranoa does is pick up that rock and show the teeming life underneath.
- At her house, he gets the attention of her bouncer by throwing a rock.
- In some instances, especially in the war zones, rocks were thrown at the screens.
- He kicked a small rock on the ground to the other side of the path.
- He threw rocks through their living window and claimed they were being attacked.
- If you must ripple the pond, throw a small rock first and pay careful attention.
- A switchback ramp scales a battered wall of rough granite blocks and you wonder if defenders will appear on the ramparts above and drive you off with rocks.
- My brother and I would pretend fight, I'd be knocked down, and then I'd roll down the hill while bumping against tiny rocks and other imperfections peppering the slide.
- I get the feeling I couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Baldwin.
- Alex kicked another rock in front of her and nodded.
- She shot small rocks on the beach from above at the time of day when the sun casts long shadows.
- Tiger also faced abuse at the hands of grade school classmates, who once even tied him to a tree and threw rocks at him.
- 2.2British A kind of hard confectionery in the form of cylindrical peppermint-flavored sticks.
〈英〉（胡椒薄荷味）圆筒硬棒糖 - 2.3informal A precious stone, especially a diamond.
〈非正式〉宝石（尤指钻石） Example sentencesExamples - Instead of working with flashy, expensive rocks, he preferred to use semiprecious stones - and his wits.
- It's like a trip through a jewelry store that sells nothing but pricey diamond rings with big rocks.
Synonyms diamond, precious stone, jewel - 2.4informal A small piece of crack cocaine.
〈非正式〉石毒，强效可卡因块 - 2.5rocksvulgar slang Testicles.
3Used to refer to someone or something that is extremely strong, reliable, or hard. 强壮的人；坚如磐石的事物；可靠的人（或事物）；冷酷无情的人；强硬的事物 imagining himself as the last rock of civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism Example sentencesExamples - It was only sprung on us in the sense that at any point, we could have said ‘no’ and faced the rock that was our boss.
- Mia really has become the rock in this world, his key to becoming a better man.
Synonyms foundation, cornerstone, support, prop, mainstay, backbone - 3.1usually rocks (especially with allusion to shipwrecks) a source of danger or destruction.
（尤指沉船事故的）隐患，祸根；危险的源头 the new system is heading for the rocks 新的系统将碰到危险。 Example sentencesExamples - While his willingness to explore the darker side of marriage makes his movie more perceptive than many others, the film loses its way when love hits the rocks.
Synonyms in difficulty, in trouble, breaking down, practically over, heading for divorce, heading for the divorce courts
4rocksUS dated, informal Money.
Phrasesbetween a rock and a hard place informal In a situation where one is faced with two equally difficult alternatives. 〈非正式〉左右为难，进退两难 Example sentencesExamples - Thus, some workers may find themselves between a rock and a hard place after the normal retirement age is raised.
- Rex to Miles: ‘My wife has me between a rock and a hard place.’
- Seeger, like many artists and writers on the left during the Twenties and Thirties, found herself between a rock and a hard place.
- Both she and the bank were between a rock and a hard place.
- As we will see, when it comes to inflation, the federal reserve is caught between a rock and a hard place.
- As an investor, you are between a rock and a hard place if your company faces bankruptcy.
- It's a classic example of audiences putting composers between a rock and a hard place.
- The army chief is certainly caught between a rock and a hard place.
- With the mayor and the police force all breathing down Harry's neck, Harry finds himself between a rock and a hard place.
- The Utah Senator finds himself trapped painfully between a rock and a hard place.
1vulgar slang Have an orgasm. 〈粗俚〉达到性高潮 - 1.1Obtain pleasure or satisfaction.
感到兴奋；获得满足
1informal (of a relationship or enterprise) experiencing difficulties and likely to fail. （关系）濒于破裂的；濒临毁灭的；完蛋；（企业）遇经济困难的；（濒于）破产的 Example sentencesExamples - My relationship has been on the rocks ever since my boyfriend left our ballet company to join a dance troupe in another state.
- This film is a tragicomic ensemble piece about people on the edge and love on the rocks.
- The elder daughter finds to her consternation that her marriage is on the rocks.
- He may have been lucky in business, but his marriage is on the rocks, his daughter barely speaks to him and even his friend, Francis, holds little interest.
- His relationship with Sissy on the rocks, Bud takes to practicing bull riding.
- He finds himself a single dad, with a career on the rocks, living in New Jersey with his father.
- Like many American men of 35-40 today, he's adrift, not sure where the stream of life may take him now that his original life plan is all messed up and pretty much on the rocks.
- Her parents' marriage is on the rocks as she embarks upon a career in television news.
- At the time of making the film, the director's own marriage was on the rocks and he was romantically involved with an actress.
- Feigning being in love and making googly eyes isn't too much of a challenge; convincingly portraying a long-time couple whose relationship is on the rocks is the tough part.
Synonyms in difficulty, in trouble, breaking down, practically over, heading for divorce, heading for the divorce courts 2informal (of a drink) served undiluted and with ice cubes. （饮料）未搀杂而加有冰块的 Example sentencesExamples - When not ‘landing’ a big client, she cares for her aging father, and sexes it up with her fiancé, who looks like he drinks Vitalis on the rocks.
- My favorite drink is malt scotch, either on the rocks or with a splash of soda and a twist.
- While ‘celebrating’ in the hotel lounge (her idea of a party is scotch on the rocks and a corner to herself), she runs into Paula.
- This film is the thematic and cinematic equivalent of scotch on the rocks: golden and fiery, burning the throat, but continually surrounded and chilled by giant blocks of ice.
- He starts smoking an exclusive brand of cigarette and drinking single malt whisky on the rocks.
- There were a number of still lifes, including Dina's Nikes, a pair of red running shoes against a field of creamy white, and a painting of two glasses of Scotch on the rocks sitting on a black table.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French rocque, from medieval Latin rocca, of unknown ultimate origin. verbrɑkräk 1Move gently to and fro or from side to side. 轻轻摇动，使轻轻摆动，使轻轻晃动 with object she rocked the baby in her arms 她轻摇怀中的婴儿。 no object the vase rocked back and forth on its base 那个花瓶在底座上来回轻轻晃动。 Example sentencesExamples - As of this week, he no longer wants to be rocked to sleep.
- I think I spent a week in a row rocking him to sleep, just speaking it over.
- He rocked his body at the mike, rolled his eyes, pulled back his lips in elegant disdain, and finished each sentence with a sensual guttural trail.
- She rocked herself to and fro, and the tears gathered in her eyes and slowly trickled down her cheeks.
- Some women started cooking meal under trees while some others gently rocked makeshift cradles hanging from tree branches.
- As he cuddles his teddy bear, she rocks him to sleep.
- The floor seemed to be pitching, like a boat rocked by waves.
- I guess you just get use to being rocked to sleep every night.
Synonyms move to and fro, move backwards and forwards, move back and forth, sway, swing, see-saw - 1.1 (with reference to a building or region) shake or cause to shake or vibrate, especially because of an impact, earthquake, or explosion.
（尤指由于撞击、地震或爆炸）（使）（建筑物，地区）剧烈震动；（使）摇晃 no object the building began to rock on its foundations 房屋开始在地基上摇晃。 with object another blast rocked the ship and threw him from his chair Example sentencesExamples - Just then, the ship was rocked by an explosion.
- Then the entire world was rocked by a massive earthquake, which killed more than half the population.
- He is awake in the middle of the night and he feels as if the hotel is being rocked by an earthquake.
- Situated in a sensitive seismic zone, the country has been rocked by many earthquakes.
- Brimstone's ship was violently rocked by the explosions, but still managed to maintain their shields.
- An explosion rocks downtown London and shuts down the city.
- Both films take place in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that rocked northern Iran in 1990, killing nearly 50,000 people.
- For the second day, a suicide blast rocked the city of Tal Afar.
Synonyms shake, vibrate, quake, tremble - 1.2with object Cause great shock or distress to (someone or something), especially so as to weaken or destabilize them or it.
（尤指为削弱某人或某物的力量或破坏其稳定）使震惊；使苦恼；使不安 diplomatic upheavals that rocked the British Empire 扰得大英帝国惊魂不定的外交大动荡。 Example sentencesExamples - Boudu rocks the household to its foundation with boorish behavior and manners befitting a beast.
- All this took place in Cincinnati which was rocked by riots and violent protests in the preceding weeks.
- One young girl knows secrets that could rock this union to its core, and she's on the run.
- But even though my atheism was not rocked during the writing of Quarantine, it was changed.
- When tumultuous events rocked the world he soon forgot her.
- After initially taking the moral ground, Johnny finds the tables turning, and his own sense of self being rocked as he is forced to confront his past.
- In 1839, the seeds of the civil rights earthquake that would rock the United States were sprinkled on a Spanish schooner named La Amistad.
- Mary's perfect little world is about to be rocked in a serious way.
- Corporate scandals have recently rocked the business world, shocked shareholders and the public at large, and led to the downfall of several large-scale firms.
- In the past two months, the fund industry has been rocked by allegations of ethical lapses.
- For the year 2001, the company was ranked as the 6th largest corporation in the world, but before the year was out, it was rocked by scandal and filed for bankruptcy.
- Your utter disregard for everything that is good and decent has rocked the very foundation upon which our society is built.
- Merciless in its intensity, uncompromising in its brutality, this film will rock you to your core.
- It rocks her contented world to its foundations when she discovers that her husband is having an affair.
- In 1974, when the Watergate revelations were rocking the presidency, the would-be assassin went over the edge.
- The international tennis scene has been rocked by a series of drug stories.
- But our island's towns and cities have been rocked by their own lesser-known scandals.
- The film doesn't seem like much - just an odd little love story, not anything you would expect to rock your world.
- Particularly good though is Basinger as a mother wanting more from a wounded marriage, rocked by the memory of a painful incident.
- This incident rocked the Canadian province of Newfoundland.
Synonyms stun, shock, stagger, astound, astonish, amaze, startle, surprise, dumbfound, daze, shake, shake up, set someone back on their heels, take aback, throw, unnerve, disconcert
2informal no object Dance to or play rock music. 〈非正式〉跳摇滚舞；奏摇滚乐 Example sentencesExamples - The focus of the film isn't so much that this guy teaches kids how to rock as it about how he teaches them to rock.
- Each of these rhythm and blues legends had the hall rocking to the sounds of the Sixties.
- In this case, the screen was bigger, the score was louder and the crowd was rocking.
- If the crowd is not rocking to this one beat, you gotta get it out and get the next record in.
- These guys knew how to rock - and did so for nearly two hours!
- While my musical strength may be in the Classical realm, I also know that Little Richard really rocked in his day.
- Dewey drinks hard, sleeps late, plays gigs in dingy clubs and, most importantly, loves to rock.
- Despite the odd venue choice, Billy Corgan and his openers still rocked out.
- Whatever may happen in the future, the band are rocking hard in the present.
- 2.1 (of a place) have an atmosphere of excitement or much social activity.
〈喻〉欢欣雀跃，热闹非凡 the new town really rocks 这个新城镇确实热闹非凡。
3informal with object Wear (a garment) or affect (an attitude or style), especially in a confident or flamboyant way. 〈非正式〉（尤指自信或惹人注目地）穿（衣）；炫耀地表现出（态度或风格） she was rocking a clingy little leopard-skin number 她穿了一件小巧的紧身豹皮衣服到处显摆。
nounrɑkräk 1Rock music. 摇滚乐 Example sentencesExamples - Rock movies, like rock songs, need not be original to be successful: get the chords right and the arrangements scarcely matter.
- Back in the '60s and '70s I listened to Gordon Lightfoot a fair bit when I wanted to take a break from the harder rock that was the staple of my listening.
- He beat out no less than Sting and Paul McCartney, two rock idols who performed their own nominated songs.
- This is about as close to the sensory overload of a rock concert without actually being at a rock concert.
- The movie is a disappointment, and could have been a lot better if only he had gone out on a few more limbs than just the inclusion of a few rock tunes.
- We were all squealing like kids at a rock concert.
- The alternative rock soundtrack is wonderfully raw as it blares from the speakers.
- He had organised a rock concert to coincide with one of the city's major sporting events.
- One reason I really like the '70s era of rock, besides the fact I was a young man then, was that it was an era where musicians really tried to reach for the pinnacle of their abilities in their music.
- The music is a bizarre score of upbeat string numbers, samba tunes, jazz numbers, rock ballads, and every other style thrown together in a peculiar 1980s-esque synthesized sort of way.
- I was a fan of the band back in the '60s, before I got turned on to harder rock.
- The book tells of William's initiation into journalism and his adventures in the rock industry.
- Before disco undermined the morale and minds of millions, rock rode the rails of success, scoring the soundtrack for that personal motion picture you were playing in your head.
- Jill looked stunning, but she wasn't really dressed for a rock concert.
- The debt owed to past blues musicians by the giants of the rock industry - Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin among others - becomes apparent when you listen to their music.
- My dad had booked a special reunion concert by 80s rock legends, Dire Straits.
- 1.1 Rock and roll.
摇滚乐；摇滚舞 Example sentencesExamples - It made me want to run out and start a rockabilly band to pay tribute to rock's greatest geek.
- It is a film for everyone, both those who were touched by this era of rock and those who just remember that fleeting second when the world didn't slow down.
2in singular A gentle movement to and fro or from side to side. 轻轻摇动，使轻轻摆动，使轻轻晃动 she placed the baby in the cradle and gave it a rock 她把婴儿放在小床上，轻轻摇动。
Phrasal VerbsPerform rock music loudly and vigorously. 〈非正式〉如痴如狂地奏摇滚乐 Example sentencesExamples - They rock out with unexpected intensity, but the song ends quickly, leaving the listener hoping for the band to flex their rock muscles a bit more.
- He never really came close to rocking out with conviction over the past 20-plus years like he did at the start of his career - until now.
- Performing a variety of songs from all three albums, the band rocked out on a dynamic rollercoaster that ranged from the softest melodies to pounding virtual thrash metal.
- Merely watching the two beautiful females in the group rock out is enough.
- With just a square black stage and some colourful lights, it almost felt like the group were rocking out at their local bar - except for the thousands of screaming hordes.
- When they aren't rocking out, the band do what they can to encourage their fans to become politically aware and get out to the voting polls.
- The Canadian guitar god should have been dressed in a schoolboy uniform as he rocked out like AC/DC throughout the performance.
- For whatever reason, I believe band possesses this propensity for rocking out.
- The self-confident singer rocked out, freestyled with natural ease and steamed up the room with poetry and poise and an intense, extended version of ‘Sun Again.’
- The vocalist speaks rather than sings, and the band rocks out more than it has in the past.
OriginLate Old English roccian, probably from a Germanic base meaning ‘remove, move’; related to Dutch rukken ‘jerk, tug’ and German rücken ‘move’. The noun dates from the early 19th century. |