1. 1碰!砰!(模擬撞擊聲),也可以用來說「突然」

    'Bam!' is a sound word — you say it to copy the noise of something hitting hard and suddenly, like a fist on a table or a door slamming. People also say it to mean 'suddenly, just like that': 'I was walking, and bam, I fell.' It's casual, mostly spoken or in comics, and used for a surprising or dramatic moment.

From the word’s history

Onomatopoeic.

擬聲字。

Wiktionary

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Bamname

  • 1

    The capital city of Bam County, Kerman Province, Iran.

  • 2

    A county of Kerman Province, Iran.

bamintj詞源 1/bæm/

  • 1

    Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.

    • The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
    • We all looked up from the maps, silent, and listened to the hurried footsteps in the entryway. They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.
  • 2

    Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.

    • She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.

bamnoun詞源 2/bæm/

  • 1

    slangA ned; a bampot.

bamnoun詞源 3/bæm/

  • 1

    archaicslangAn imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

    • To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

bamverb詞源 3/bæm/

  • 1

    archaicslangTo impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.

    • This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
    • I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
  • 2

    archaicslangTo jeer or make fun of.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • bile acid malabsorption
  • business activity monitoring
  • binary angular measurement
  • Baikal–Amur Mainline
  • bare-arse minimum

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