hammer
n. 铁锤,榔头; 链球; (拍卖时用的)木槌; 音槌
vt.& vi. 锤打; 反复敲打,连续击打(尤指发出大声)
vt. 击败; 猛踢; 猛击; 轻易打败(对方)
A hammer is a tool that consists of a heavy piece of metal at the end of a handle. It is used, for example, to hit nails into a piece of wood or a wall, or to break things into pieces.
He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
他用榔头和凿子铲墙。
If you hammer an object such as a nail, you hit it with a hammer.
To avoid damaging the tree, hammer a wooden peg into the hole...
为了不毁坏树,用锤子将一个木栓钉进洞里。
Builders were still hammering outside the window.
建筑工人仍在窗外敲敲打打。
If you hammer on a surface, you hit it several times in order to make a noise, or to emphasize something you are saying when you are angry.
We had to hammer and shout before they would open up...
我们不停地拍门、叫喊,他们才开了门。
A crowd of reporters was hammering on the door...
一群记者正在砰砰地拍打着大门。
If you hammer something such as an idea into people or you hammer at it, you keep repeating it forcefully so that it will have an effect on people.
He hammered it into me that I had not suddenly become a rotten goalkeeper...
他反复告诉我,我并没有一下子变成个差劲的守门员。
Recent advertising campaigns from the industry have hammered at these themes.
该行业最近的广告宣传活动一直在反复强调这些主题。
If you say that someone hammers another person, you mean that they attack, criticize, or punish the other person severely.
The report hammers the private motorist...
该报告严词谴责了那个私家车司机。
If we turned up late we would be hammered by everybody.
如果我们迟到,就会遭到大家的声讨。
If you say that businesses are being hammered, you mean that they are being unfairly harmed, for example by a change in taxes or by bad economic conditions.
Look at the numbers of small businesses that are being hammered unmercifully...
看看有多少小企业正在遭受无情的打击。
The company has been hammered by the downturn in the construction and motor industries.
公司因建筑和汽车行业的衰退而受到了冲击。
In sports, if you say that one player or team hammered another, you mean that the first player or team defeated the second completely and easily.
He hammered the young Austrian player in four straight sets.
他直落4局轻取年轻的奥地利对手。
If someone's heart is hammering, it is beating very fast, usually because they are frightened.
My heart was hammering. The footsteps had stopped outside my door.
我的心怦怦直跳。脚步声已停在我的门外。
In machines and instruments, a hammer is a part that hits another part. For example, in a gun the hammer causes the explosion which makes the bullet shoot out of it, and in a piano the hammers hit the strings and cause the sounds.
In athletics, a hammer is a heavy weight on a piece of wire, which the athlete throws as far as possible.
If you say that someone was going at something hammer and tongs, you mean that they were doing it with great enthusiasm or energy.
He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work...
他酷爱侍弄花草。只要下班一回到家,他就兴冲冲地忙活起来。
They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.
他们又叫又喊又吵,每晚都要乐此不疲地闹腾6个小时。
If you say that something goes, comes, or is under the hammer, you mean that it is going to be sold at an auction.
Ian Fleming's original unpublished notes are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby's.
伊恩·弗莱明未出版的原版笔记将在伦敦的苏富比拍卖行进行拍卖。
1. the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
2. a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
3. an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible
4. the ossicle attached to the eardrum
5. a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
6. a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
7. a power tool for drilling rocks
8. the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows);
1. beat with or as if with a hammer;
2. create by hammering;
come (或 go) under the hammer
被拍卖
hammer and tongs
(非正式)有力地;热情地;猛烈地
hammer something home
hammer something out
锤成,锻造出
详细推敲出,悉力打造出(计划或协议)
(尤指用钢琴)笨拙而大声地演奏,敲击出
go under the hammer 或 come under the hammer
置于拍卖之下
She killed him by a hammer.
她用锤子砸死了他.
He'll hammer some information in whether that child likes it or not.
不管那个小孩喜欢不喜欢,他要反复灌输一些知识给他.
The natives used to hammer the metal into arrowheads using heavy stones.
土著人以前总是用沉重的石头把这种金属锤打成箭头.
A hammer can be a lethal weapon.
铁锤可以是致命的武器.
He was chipping away at the rock with a hammer.
他在用铁锤把那块岩石一小块一小块地敲下来.