| 释义 |
vroom colloq. (orig. U.S.).|vrʊm|
Also varoom.
[Echoic.]
The roaring noise of a motor vehicle accelerating or travelling at speed. Also as v. intr., to make such a noise; to travel or accelerate at speed; as v. trans., to rev (an engine) with such a sound. Also reduplicated and as int.
1967M. J. Arlen in New Yorker 21 Jan. 76 To go varooming all over the desert in a couple of jeeps. 1968L. Deighton Only when I Larf iv. 48, I..shaved off my moustache. Vroom vroom. 1969Time 2 May 33 The foursome would prefer tough scramblers, ‘with big drive sprockets, knobby wheels—and more vroom’. 1970Atlantic Monthly Oct. 75 The trooper lies on his back..reading Hot Rod magazine, hearing the vroom-vroom of engines. 1971‘H. Calvin’ Poison Chasers vii. 93 The car stood at the red light with the engine making impatient vroom noises. 1971Time 19 July 59/2 Just give me ten showgirls out here, and varoom, the young guys'll come out of Los Angeles in first gear. 1973J. Di Mona Last Man at Arlington (1974) iv. xv. 195 A bullet varoomed over his head. 1974Guardian 21 Mar. 11/2 A score of big bad BSA's vrooming through a sleepy one-pub town. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places 190 Morris pulled out and varoomed down the wrong side of the road. 1976B. Jackson Flameout iv. 51 A gang of youths sitting astride motorcycles vroomed their engines. 1979J. Hansen Skinflick x. 77 ‘How about a sports car?.. Let it roll off a cliff and catch fire. Just like TV. Sensational.’ ‘Varoom!’ Spence said. 1984New Yorker 14 May 41/2 It wasn't the varooms and the screeching tires that spooked people. |