| 单词 | boom |
| 释义 | boom (buːm ) Word forms: booms , booming , boomed 1. countable noun [usually singular] If there is a boom in the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold. An economic boom followed, especially in housing and construction. The 1980s were indeed boom years. ...the cycle of boom and bust which has damaged us for 40 years. 2. countable noun [usually singular] A boom in something is an increase in its amount, frequency, or success. The boom in the sport's popularity has meant more calls for stricter safety regulations. [+ in] Public transport has not been able to cope adequately with the travel boom. 3. verb If the economy or a business is booming, the amount of things being bought or sold is increasing. When the economy is booming, people buy new cars. [VERB] Sales are booming. [VERB] It has a booming tourist industry. [VERB-ing] 4. countable noun [usually singular] On a boat, the boom is the long pole which is attached to the bottom of the sail and to the mast and which you move when you want to alter the direction in which you are sailing. 5. countable noun A boom is a large floating barrier that is used for stopping oil that has spilled from spreading. 6. verb When something such as someone's voice, a cannon, or a big drum booms, it makes a loud, deep sound that lasts for several seconds. 'Ladies,' boomed Helena, without a microphone, 'we all know why we're here tonight.' [VERB with quote] Thunder boomed like battlefield cannons over Crooked Mountain. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: bang, roll, crash, blast Boom out means the same as boom. Music boomed out from loudspeakers. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] A megaphone boomed out, 'This is the police.' [VERB PARTICLE with quote] He turned his sightless eyes their way and boomed out a greeting. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Boom is also a noun. The stillness of night was broken by the boom of a cannon. Synonyms: bang, report, shot, crash 7. See also baby boom, Phrasal verbs: boom out boom [sense 6] Collocations: boom microphone Riders can deliver these via a boom microphone that attaches to both open-face and full-face helmets. Times, Sunday Times He suffered a head injury after being hit with a boom microphone and knocked down the courthouse steps. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Undeterred, she picked herself up and finished her report, having to speak directly into the boom microphone as she had lost her microphone pack. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unusually, a boom microphone (normally used for drama and comedy shows) was employed - the viewer doesn't see this, so it appears as if the artists were miming to their vocals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One of the most common pieces of equipment on a film set, it can hold a variety of reflectors, lights, show cards or boom microphones. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The bass drum makes a low, boom sound when the mallet hits the drumhead. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They sit, low down in bucket seats, barely able to see over the windscreen as they twitch in time to booming sound systems. Times, Sunday Times There are flashing lights, booming sound effects, and statistic after statistic, some hard to believe. The Sun Industry insiders say 2012 will be a boom year as people ditch planes and trains for the cheaper alternative. The Sun Orders are still little more than half the level of the boom year of 2007. Times, Sunday Times Site bookings were showing a rise of 30 per cent and it was expected to be a boom year. Times, Sunday Times Total fees from mergers and acquisitions have drifted down since the boom year of 2007, but they have recovered from the particularly lean period in 2008-09. Times, Sunday Times Debt collectors are also expecting a boom year. Times, Sunday Times Entomophagy — the unlovely term for human consumption of insects — is a booming business. Times, Sunday Times (2015) But what is lurking under the glossy surface of this booming business? The Sun (2013) By that point she was wealthy beyond her wildest imaginings thanks to her husband's booming business. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Almost simultaneously, there's the news that cosmetic plastic surgery is a booming business. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Most of the gains stemmed from booming growth in consumer loans, mortgage financings, credit cards and private banking. Globe and Mail There he has overseen booming growth. Times, Sunday Times The 1850s and '60s particularly saw usage of the canal merely plateau despite booming growth in river traffic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Village recreation needs were not overlooked during the booming growth period and since 1974. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those three cultures immigrated heavily during the city's booming growth to dominance in the 19th century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recycling of out-of-date electronic goods - also known as e-waste - is now a booming industry in this country. The Sun (2012) The findings could have serious implications for the booming industry in assisted reproduction. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The second factor is the booming industry in tourists diving to see sharks and other sea creatures. Times, Sunday Times (2011) He was able to sell the lumber readily, supplying construction projects in the booming town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was opened as an upmarket hotel for the booming town in 1882. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The town was once a trade center and was considered a booming town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Construction of a dozen or more buildings were started at this same time, and before the close of the year, the booming town had about 150 inhabitants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Diphtheria recurred in 1897, by 1901 the town's population fell to only 25 people and in 1917 there were only 18 people left in this once booming town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 High salaries and demand for homes led to a building boom, with big five- and six-bedroom homes selling for 750,000. Times, Sunday Times The practice reflects the difficulties that developers are having selling in areas where there has been an overenthusiastic building boom. Times, Sunday Times Behind the concrete monstrosities lining the main roads, tiny warrens of ancient courtyard homes have eluded the building boom. Times, Sunday Times Yet there may be nothing wrong with the building boom, other than the aesthetics. Times, Sunday Times Large tracts of countryside will be developed under new planning guidance that could trigger a building boom by weakening environmental safeguards. Times, Sunday Times The company, which recently unveiled a 37-metre triple-deck powerboat costing about 10m, has seen business boom in recent years. Times, Sunday Times He added that the recession turned out to be the key in making his business boom. The Sun Moves to support a 'home-based business boom' include allowing people to start companies from rented accommodation without having to seek approval from their landlord. Times, Sunday Times He commissioned his own plant, capable of recycling 99% of each fridge, but the business boom was short-lived. Times, Sunday Times He added that the recent recession actually helped his business boom. The Sun Some see the commodities boom as a bubble that will soon pop. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The commodities boom has a downside, though. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Both companies' cashflow has surged in recent years due to the global commodities boom. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The opportunity to pounce again came as the commodity boom collapsed. Times, Sunday Times The company has profited indirectly from the global food and commodity boom. Times, Sunday Times While metals such as copper and zinc have stolen the headlines during the current commodity boom, diamond traders are now benefiting from their very own version of a 'super-cycle'. Times, Sunday Times The combination of better governance, debt forgiveness and a commodities boom helped to fuel a decade of strong growth. Times, Sunday Times Fears that the commodities boom could come to a halt have made mining shares volatile. Times, Sunday Times There's a construction boom under way, with 1,000 workers putting up villas and building a marina down by the airport. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Two years ago the electrician was always busy, thanks to the construction boom in the capital, Reykjavik. Times, Sunday Times (2009) As in Japan in the 1980s and Spain in the 2000s, the construction boom was funded largely by debt. Times, Sunday Times (2015) And the main channel for monetary policy in the preceding half-decade was feeding a housing bubble and consumption boom. Times, Sunday Times The best monsoon in six years has left farmers feeling flush after a bumper harvest and many are now pouring the proceeds into a consumption boom. Times, Sunday Times In this case, some researcher has argued that such investment would lead to the consumption boom, but would not translate into productivity gains in the tradable sector. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the supply side, producers have incentives to develop projects in places that would have been financially unthinkable before this current boom began in 2003. Times, Sunday Times Many long-term investors, having endured bad years for steel and enjoyed the current boom, opted to cash in. Times, Sunday Times However, this renewed enthusiasm has raised fears that the current boom could end with a bang, just like the tech bubble of the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times The current boom in the world economy will fade, leading to a fall in global oil demand. Times, Sunday Times The scale of the current boom may not be as worrying. Times, Sunday Times His gained his first degree, in industrial engineering, in 1999 at the height of the first dot-com boom. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The scam took place at the height of the dot-com boom. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The valuation of $9 billion recalled the gold rush of the first dot-com boom a decade ago. Times, Sunday Times (2011) In the first dot-com boom, the revolution was the choice made available by companies to consumers online. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The agency partly puts this increase down to the dot-com boom, although not in terms of gaining income from them. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK (2002) The listing looks set to be one of the most high profile and controversial since the dotcom boom. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Those of us old enough to remember can see similarities from the dotcom boom. Times,Sunday Times (2020) What happened to the stars of the dotcom boom? Times, Sunday Times (2015) Australia has enjoyed an economic boom, largely untouched by the financial crisis. Times, Sunday Times (2013) A similar plunge in the price of oil in 1985 led to an economic boom. The Sun (2015) Nowhere is the economic boom in Dubai more evident than in the education sector. Times, Sunday Times (2008) As new lines and stations are built, the areas surrounding existing termini are also enjoying a boom. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The successful bid for the competition was made when Brazil was enjoying a boom based on rising commodity prices and consumer borrowing. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The sector has enjoyed a boom in the past ten years. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Women's football has enjoyed a boom and the Olympics could prompt a similar growth spurt. Times, Sunday Times (2013) There are a couple of dozen more provinces in the interior that have yet to experience a boom and their economies have little exposure to export industries. Times, Sunday Times As a result of the popularity of the tournaments, the restaurants experience a boom in patronage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For as the market slips, the real estate auction houses are experiencing a boom. Times, Sunday Times In recent years the sector has experienced a boom. Times, Sunday Times Charity shops are currently experiencing a boom, because they offer high-quality products and value for money in tough times. Times, Sunday Times That helped to drive the export boom of the past five years but left them more vulnerable to the crisis. Times, Sunday Times The currency has settled at a sort of 'weighted average' level, substantially undervalued for them, leading to an export boom. Times, Sunday Times When sterling fell 25% during the global financial crisis, the hope was of a post-crisis export boom. Times, Sunday Times Strong global growth will provide a tailwind this time and maybe the weak pound will deliver an export boom. Times, Sunday Times The fall in sterling has produced an export boom, for example. Times, Sunday Times One of the things fuelling the boom in fanfic is the appetite of readers for more. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The way we form and end relationships has also fuelled the boom. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Central banks fuelled the boom in government bonds by buying trillions of dollars through QE. Times, Sunday Times (2016) He was fortunate that his first term as president in the early 2000s coincided with a global boom. Times, Sunday Times In the 1970s, a global boom was brought to a halt by soaring oil prices, amid rising unemployment and swelling inflation. Times, Sunday Times Bond prices, for example, now point to the deepest depression for 40 years, while stock markets suggest only a mild recession - and commodities and oil prices imply a global boom. Times, Sunday Times Year after year, sales and profits cantered ahead as it rode the wave of the global boom in luxury goods. Times, Sunday Times All the time he took credit for the global boom, never once criticising the bankers, the private equity guys or the hedgies. The Sun At some stage the long housing boom has to come to an end, given the expected pressure on consumer spending next year. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The housing boom gave people the potential to withdraw equity in properties that suddenly looked like gold mines. Times, Sunday Times (2006) This growing chasm, initially masked by the housing boom, is now causing seething resentment. Times, Sunday Times (2012) This leads to such a huge boom in their numbers that satellites detect a spectacular rise in chlorophyll. Times, Sunday Times A few seconds later there was a huge boom and the apartment trembled. The Sun Low interest rates sparked a huge boom in credit and a housing bubble, with catastrophic economic consequences. Times, Sunday Times As well as roles as kennel staff, breeders, trainers, re-homers and vet staff, there has been a huge boom in less traditional posts. The Sun All three together would be likely to trigger a huge boom and serious global inflation. Times, Sunday Times Inventories surged as demand failed to keep up with the statebacked industrial boom. Times,Sunday Times The distribution of electric power, the development of railway network and the presence of a skilled workforce heavily impulsed the industrial boom. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It supplemented existing overland routes resulting in the lack of an industrial boom along this route. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many blue-collar workers were attracted during the industrial boom of the 1920s through the 1950s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the time of the flood, the entire country was experiencing prosperity due to an industrial boom. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was once fêted as a top pick of the green investment boom. Times, Sunday Times Venture capital's green energy myopia reflects the scars from the most recent climate change investment boom. Times,Sunday Times They have been the recipients of a long investment boom. Times,Sunday Times What ensued was an unsustainable consumer and investment boom fuelled by debt. Times, Sunday Times The investment boom had spawned too much debt and too many idle factories. Times, Sunday Times Immediately following this announcement, the drum line's bass drum players all play a single count, creating a loud boom that echoes inside the stadium. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Amateur videos showed a fireball streaking across the sky and a loud boom several minutes afterwards. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A loud boom would result and the top anvil would be blown into the air and fall to the ground as the powder exploded. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The next thing she heard was a loud boom. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its loud boom was heard by many, despite the shock causing little damage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Evidence of a vigorous manufacturing boom came from two separate purchasing managers' indices. Times, Sunday Times Economists said the findings raised hopes that a manufacturing boom might offset the slowdown in consumer spending and steady the economy. Times, Sunday Times A manufacturing boom could be about to offset the slowdown in consumer spending and steady the economy. Times, Sunday Times Strong demand from abroad has kept the manufacturing boom going, although the number of factories expecting to push up prices has hit a 34-year high. Times, Sunday Times The war efforts led to a manufacturing boom throughout the city, including high demand for housing and other services. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, some analysts have warned that the housing market boom will be shortlived. Times,Sunday Times In the stock market boom from 1980 to 2000 gold prices fell sharply then flatlined for 20 years. Times, Sunday Times Now that they are starting to reach retirement age, one of the former drivers of the stock market boom has disappeared. Times, Sunday Times He challenged as 'intellectually suspect' claims that interest rates should have been used to prevent the market boom that sparked the present crisis. Times, Sunday Times During the market boom homes were changing hands in less than six weeks. Times, Sunday Times That sparked a massive boom in consumption and investment. Times, Sunday Times In other words, a massive boom in house building will not necessarily be quite as destructive as one might fear. Times, Sunday Times The turn into the 19th century coincided with the start of the massive boom in production. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That mining boom hasn't yet happened, but sectors such as defence could keep the job market steady. Times, Sunday Times The mining boom has resulted in a lack of last-minute accommodation. Times, Sunday Times Before the mining boom there was the tech boom and before that there was the biotech boom. Times, Sunday Times She has also been accused of overpaying for assets at the height of the mining boom. Times, Sunday Times Conceived at the height of the mining boom, the company's shape has gone rather pearish. Times, Sunday Times Some global trends will probably remain immune from the oil boom. Times, Sunday Times The sheriff moved to the town after the first oil boom in the 1980s. Times, Sunday Times And they vow to increase payments over the coming months despite signs the oil boom could be at an end. The Sun It was also well-timed, taking the company out of construction just as the recession loomed and allowing it to benefit from the oil boom. Times, Sunday Times In 1982, at the peak of an oil boom, the event drew more than 100,000 people. Houston Chronicle He was the prime catalyst for snooker's unprecedented popularity boom. Times, Sunday Times The chain ended the year with positive like-forlike sales partly due to a 'popularity boom' in the ukulele. Times, Sunday Times From 2016 onwards, his popularity boomed. Times,Sunday Times Increased life expectancy will also fuel the population boom. The Sun (2016) Much of his wealth comes from the population boom on Queensland's sunshine coast. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The population boom at the time meant houses were built more narrowly and with steeper, badly designed staircases, especially in the servants' quarters. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The collapse of the short-lived postwar boom also had its effect. Fascists and Conservatives (1990) Made largely in the 1960s, the pictures grouped under this umbrella charted the changing character of Italy during its postwar boom. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The last time anything on this scale happened was when the oil crisis of the early 1970s brought the great postwar construction boom to a halt. Times, Sunday Times (2009) My wife and I upgraded our house at the height of the property boom. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The news will reassure homeowners who had to buy outside their preferred areas during the property boom. Times, Sunday Times (2008) He paid £7 m at the height of the property boom for a house in Dublin that has probably halved in value. Times, Sunday Times (2015) This bargain bottle of red will give real boom to your bolognese. The Sun The real boom in the market lies elsewhere, among private patients seeking better value for money. Times, Sunday Times I played in a real boom time for the sport. Times, Sunday Times There were various other studies in the 1970s, but the real boom in communication strategy scholarship came in the 1980s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Starting in the mid-1850s there was a real boom in this market. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such buyers had accounted for about one in ten purchases in the recent boom years. Times, Sunday Times Thanks to the recent boom in the metropolitan property market, more and more of us have been able to afford a rural bolthole. Times, Sunday Times Some of the businesses that contributed to the recent boom may never return. Times, Sunday Times The miner fell 3¼p, or 8.8 per cent, to 33¾p yesterday after bosses said that they weren't sure what had caused the recent boom. Times,Sunday Times Homeowners who have overextended themselves to get on the property ladder during the recent boom are particularly at risk. Times, Sunday Times It was built at the peak of the rubber boom, in the belle époque style, and it's still in wonderful condition. Times,Sunday Times However, sugar, cotton, tobacco, cocoa, and, during the turn-of-the-century rubber boom, rubber were also important. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It reflects a period of traumatic conflict with outsiders during the 19th and early 20th century rubber boom/oil exploration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rubber boom at the turn of the 19th century was a case in point. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Settlers were attracted to the area only around the start of the 20th century, as a result of the rubber boom. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They will predominantly live in rented rather than owned accommodation, owing to a speculative boom in house prices. Times, Sunday Times Each cycle of innovation, expansion and speculative boom has been followed by a crash. Times, Sunday Times Speculative boom in stock market resulted from the expanding economy and the market indices moved up nearly 400% from 1926 to 1929. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wool boom continued into the 1850s and in addition to a speculative boom in copper-mining shares investment in the region grew considerably. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A speculative boom fuelled construction and rail building in the region in the 1850s and 1860s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The arrangements stoke destabilising housing booms and ' benefit high-income households disproportionately', the consultancy reckons. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Leading central banks have been accused in the past of helping to stoke the asset-price boom by pursuing lax monetary policy. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Second, cheap debt has fuelled house prices, stoking a consumer boom that has driven high levels of consumer confidence. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The sudden rush to grab the fastestgrowing players in the new market has raised fears of another tech boom. Times, Sunday Times The company's network was built by picking up fibre assets from financially troubled rivals in the wake of the tech boom. Times, Sunday Times It's a bit like the tech boom of the late 1990s. Times, Sunday Times That has changed in the past five years, with our second tech boom. Times, Sunday Times As the tech boom took hold in the late 1990s, he realised that the internet was the way to make serious money. Times, Sunday Times It fell behind during the technology boom of 1998-2000, but mostly regained that lost ground. Times, Sunday Times A charity said the technology boom had fuelled a homelessness crisis. Times, Sunday Times Those over the age of 50 had not had an opportunity to capitalise on the information technology boom. ST Shares had fallen by 49 per cent since the peak of the technology boom at the turn of the millennium. Times,Sunday Times Many had made their fortunes from the technology boom. Times, Sunday Times Then came the tourism boom when sons and daughters left their parents' farms and headed to the coast. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The UAE economy grew rapidly in recent years, driven by high oil prices and Dubai's construction and tourism boom. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Skegness was a Victorian seaside retreat before the railway arrived in 1873, sparking a tourism boom. The Sun (2009) Inland there are hills and medieval towns, and the coast remains largely untouched by the tourist boom of the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times The event always prompts a tourist boom but this year it has reached new heights. Times, Sunday Times In the 1980s the big tourist boom started. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since the start of the big tourist boom in the 1970s, the whole region has been captured by tourism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although the city has a year-round population of about 9,280, the summer tourist boom adds to this a very large number of non-residents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The deal was part of an unprecedented boom this year in mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry. Times, Sunday Times The internet has already fuelled an unprecedented boom in genealogy, allowing people to retrieve family records that were previously locked away. Times, Sunday Times We poured out of school and university into an unprecedented boom, when credit put the unaffordable within reach. Times, Sunday Times Their arrival dovetailed with an unprecedented boom in the financial sector as investment banks paid out vast bonuses to their rainmakers. Times, Sunday Times While sign-makers are rubbing their hands at the unprecedented boom, many employers are fuming. Times, Sunday Times He writes the songs, she provides the lyrics; his voice booms throughout the theatre, hers flutters in the background. Times, Sunday Times A voice booms from a megaphone. Times, Sunday Times His voice booms off the walls as he asks questions, most of which come with a laugh and a smile. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 好景气经济, 繁荣经济 Japanese: 好景気, 景気上昇する |
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