| 单词 | drum |
| 释义 | noun | verb drumdrum1 /drʌm/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 1 eng. lang. arts a musical instrument with a skin stretched over a circular frame, that you play by hitting it with your hand or a stick: a snare drum Who’s on drums (=playing the drums) tonight?play (the) drums Jones quit school to play drums with a band. Protesters beat drums and carried signs.2a large round container for storing liquids such as oil, chemicals, etc.: an oil drum a 50-gallon drum of paint thinner3something that looks like a drum, especially part of a machine: brake drums4the low continuous sound of something hitting something else again and again: the drum of horses’ hooves → see also beat somebody like a drum at beat1 (24), beat the drum for somebody/something at beat1 (23), drum roll noun | verb drumdrum2 verb (drummed, drumming) 1[intransitive] eng. lang. arts to play a drum2[intransitive, transitive] to hit something again and again in a way that sounds like a drum: Rain drummed on the windows. He drummed his fingers (=hit lightly with his fingers) on the wood box a few times.drum something into somebody phrasal verb to keep telling someone something until he or she cannot forget it SYN drill into: Patriotism was drummed into us at school.drum somebody out of something phrasal verb to force someone to leave an organization: He was drummed out of football for writing a very revealing book.drum something up phrasal verb to make an effort to obtain something such as support or business: We’ve been working hard to drum up business on the East Coast. |
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