资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Drive \Drive\, v. i.
1. To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
--Dryden.
Under cover of the night and a driving tempest.
--Prescott.
Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our
lips are dumb. --Tennyson.
2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any
physical force or agent; to be driven.
The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.
--Byron.
The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers.
--Thackeray.
3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by
directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw
it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an
effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular
interest he drove at. --South.
5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.]
{To let drive}, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to
attack. ``Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.''
--Shak.