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单词 hammering
释义
hammeringham‧mer‧ing /ˈhæmərɪŋ/ noun [singular, uncountable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • I heard hammering outside the building.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • After much midnight hammering, a large wooden frame, covered in chicken wire with a drop down door was constructed.
  • But their attention was attracted to the sounds which arose in the background - a sort of confused hammering and shouting.
  • The hammering began again, loud, insistent and irregular.
  • The hammering of Jem and Eric followed him, as he rushed upstairs with the torch to Marius Steen's bedroom.
  • The pop music had been turned up quite loud now, and they were all hammering and banging away.
  • When the hammering stopped and they withdrew, it was noted that a rope hung from the cross-beam.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=be forced to accept defeat or a bad situation) Small businesses took a hammering in the last recession.
1take a hammering/be given a hammering to be attacked or defeated very severely:  The city took a real hammering during the war.2the sound of someone hitting something with a hammer or with their hands:  There was a loud hammering at the door.
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