1 [usually +adv./prep.] to walk with stiff regular steps like a soldier:
[V] Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings. * Quick march! (= the order to start marching) * [VN] They marched 20 miles to reach the capital.
2 [V+adv./prep.] to walk somewhere quickly in a determined way:
She marched over to me and demanded an apology.
3 [VN+adv./prep.] to force sb to walk somewhere with you:
The guards marched the prisoner away. * She was marched out of the door and into a waiting car.
4 [V] to walk through the streets in a large group in order to protest about sth
SYNDEMONSTRATE
IDIOMS
get your marching orders (BrE, informal) to be ordered to leave a place, a job, etc.
give sb their marching orders (informal) to order sb to leave a place, their job, etc.
PHRASALVERBS
march on to move on or pass quickly:
Time marches on and we still have not made a decision.
march on... to march to a place to protest about sth or to attack it:
Several thousand people marched on City Hall.
词性: noun
1 [C] an organized walk by many people from one place to another, in order to protest about sth, or to express their opinions:
protest marches * to go on a march
compareDEMONSTRATION
2 [C] an act of marching; a journey made by marching:
The army began their long march to the coast.
3 [sing.] the ~ of sth the steady development or forward movement of sth:
the march of progress / technology / time
4 [C] a piece of music written for marching to:
a funeral march
IDIOMS
on the march marching somewhere:
The enemy are on the march
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