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- Rugby a loose scrum formed around a player with the ball on the ground【英橄】密集争球。比较MAUL.
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- Australian Rules a group of three players who follow the play without fixed positions【澳橄】三人机动队员组。
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- a tightly packed crowd of people密集的人群：
Harry squeezed through the ruck to order another pint.
哈里挤过人群去再要一品脱啤酒。
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the ruck
the mass of ordinary people or things普通群众, 普通人; 一般性事物：education was the key to success, a way out of the ruck.
接受教育是取得成功的关键, 是出人头地的一种手段。
词源
Middle English （in the sense 'stack of fuel, heap'）： apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian ruke 'heap of hay'.
with obj.
1- compress or move (cloth or clothing) so that it forms a number of untidy folds or creases弄皱（布或衣服）; 折叠：
her skirt was rucked up.
她的裙子弄皱了。
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- no obj.(of cloth or clothing) form such folds of creases（布或衣服）变皱, 起皱：
Eleanor's dress rucked up at the front.
埃莉诺的连衣裙前面起皱了。
- a crease or wrinkle皱; 褶。
词源
late 18th cent. (as a noun)： from Old Norse hrukka.