drive home

释义

1. 强行、用力将...放入某处

   transitive

   He grunted as he drove each nail home.

   1969, James Plunkett, Strumpet City, page 396:

   Karli shook himself, drove home the last nail with a flat stone, straightened up.

   1996, Harry Harrison, One King's Way, page 186:

   Just as Ione began to slow, she struck Ione's sword aside and drove her own blade home.

   2004, Judith Tarr, Queen of the Amazons, page 293:

2. 用有力的示范强调，让...深入人心，让...入木三分

   figuratively · transitive

   The urgent need for vaccines was driven home by the expected postponement on Monday of Britain’s plan to reopen, caused by the spread of a variant known as Delta among the unvaccinated population.

   2021 June 14, Mark Landler, “Boris Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’ Makes Shaky Start at G7 Summit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

3. 仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见drive、home：开车回家

   He decided not to drive home right away.

   他决定不马上开车回家。

   He was afraid he would doze off on the long drive home.

   他怕开车回家那么长的路上睡着了。