| 单词 | to make things hum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make things (or something specified) hum 3. To give forth an indistinct sound by the blending of many voices, etc.; hence (colloquial) to be in a condition of busy activity, to be all astir. to make things (or something specified) hum: to bring to such a condition, to liven things up. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > sound faintly or quietly [verb (intransitive)] > make murmuring sounds murmurc1395 croona1500 mustle1570 mute1570 simmera1637 hummer1691 remurmur1697 hum1730 mummer1763 whimper?1795 mutter1797 brum1844 rumour1894 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up stirc1000 aweccheOE stirc1175 arear?c1225 awakec1315 amovec1330 araisec1374 wake1398 wakenc1400 to stir upa1500 incend?1504 to firk upc1540 bestir1549 store1552 bustlea1555 tickle1567 solicitate1568 to stir one's taila1572 exsuscitate1574 rouse1574 suscitate1598 accite1600 actuate1603 arousea1616 poach1632 roust1658 to shake up1850 to galvanize to or into life1853 to make things (or something specified) hum1884 to jack up1914 rev1945 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active wakec897 stir?c1225 whippet1540 to let the grass grow under one's feet (also heels)a1556 jetty1570 hum1884 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > be full of brisk activity bustle1774 bristle1844 hum1889 jumpc1938 1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 218 The city swarms intense. The publick haunt..warm with mixt discourse, Hums indistinct. 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. xviii. 88 The haven hums with many a cheering sound. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 55 I scarce can hear the people hum About the column's base. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxii. 194 He lit into that horse with his whip and made him fairly hum. 1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus iii. 34 The owner of the farm..came home, and, in American parlance, ‘fairly made things hum’. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 1/3 [In] the expressive nomenclature of the Far West, Hong-kong ‘just hums’ all the time. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 29 The whole country was humming with dacoits. 1898 Daily News 11 Jan. 5/1 The report that he had plenty of money, and would make things hum at the club. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl xviii. 205 We took you on this paper to help us make things hum! I understand you made things hum over in England. 1906 Nation (N.Y.) 18 Jan. 44 The colleges are making athletic reform hum, as if to make up for lost time. 1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby x. 265 But still things are, as the American would express it, ‘beginning to hum’ in the irrigation line. 1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. xxx I want money to spend in Butte,..and make things hum. 1922 H. Walpole Cathedral i. vii. 135 I hardly need to tell you that he's not quite the man to make things hum. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 107 By gum! Wouldn't it just make things hum? 1973 Times 16 Jan. 17/7 Our view is that if you get the logistics right and do get concentration of the best modern equipment you can really get something humming in the 1974 period. < as lemmas |
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