| 单词 | bumper |
| 释义 | bumper (once / 2242 pages) 1n 2n A bumper is the curved bar across the front of a car that protects it from getting dented or scratched during minor accidents. If you bump into your mailbox, you may damage your car's bumper. A car's bumper is designed to absorb as much impact as possible, protecting the more important parts of the car. A bumper car at a carnival is made to be slammed into other bumper cars — the bumpers help keep riders safe from injury, while the cars travel too slowly to cause damage. The earliest bumpers, in the 1830s, were on the front of trains. The phrase "bumper-to-bumper traffic" means an unusually dense traffic jam. WORD FAMILYbumper: bumpers+/bump: bumped, bumper, bumping, bumps, bumpy/bumpy: bumpier, bumpiest, bumpily, bumpiness USAGE EXAMPLESFormer governor and Sen. Dale Bumpers died New Year’s Day at age 90 and former U.S. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The year 2016 leaves us with a bumper crop of familiar but acutely revivified subjects for introspection: Who are we? The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) Chunks of his bumper, alternator and battery were buried in the bank by the slough next to his car. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 n a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage 2Hyper mechanical device mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles n a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast) we quaffed a bumper of ale Hyper drinking glass, glass a container for holding liquids while drinking |
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