喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a device packed with explosive that suddenly goes off — a loud, violent burst that changes everything in an instant. That object, and the act of dropping it, is the core; the slang senses all play off the idea of a big sudden blast (good or bad).

可以想成：一個裝滿炸藥、會「砰」一聲突然爆開的東西——那一瞬間又響又猛，把周圍全炸翻。這顆會爆的炸彈，以及「投下它去…更多收起可以想成：一個裝滿炸藥、會「砰」一聲突然爆開的東西——那一瞬間又響又猛，把周圍全炸翻。這顆會爆的炸彈，以及「投下它去炸」這個動作，就是核心；後面那些俚語意思，都是借「一個大而突然的爆發」（可能很糟，也可能很猛）來延伸的。

原始詞典資料44 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

Bombnoun

  • 1

    informalThe atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.

    • Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.

bombnoun/bɒm/

  • 1

    An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

    • The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.
  • 2

    datedAn explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

    • During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
  • 3

    An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

    • If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
    • "The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said.
  • 4

    archaichistoricalAn explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

    • And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
  • 5

    Any explosive charge.

    • The mineworkers are setting their bombs.
  • 6

    A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.

    • The children are playing with water bombs in the garden.
    • Activists threw paint bombs at the famous artwork.
  • 7

    Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.

    • That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off.
    • The gas leak tragically turned the house into a bomb.
  • 8

    A fart.

    • He just dropped a bomb.
另外 19 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangA failure; an unpopular commercial product.

    • box-office bomb
    • Projection problems plagued Countess’ London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb.
  • 10

    informalA car in poor condition.

    • Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
    • We′ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb.
  • 11

    slangA large amount of money.

    • make a bomb
    • cost a bomb
  • 12

    slangSomething highly effective or attractive.

    • Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
  • 13

    slangSomething highly effective or attractive.

  • 14

    Something highly effective or attractive.

    • It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.
  • 15

    Something highly effective or attractive.

    • Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.
  • 16

    slangAmerican-footballball-gamesfootballSomething highly effective or attractive.

  • 17

    slangball-gamesgameshobbiesSomething highly effective or attractive.

  • 18

    slangball-gamesbasketballgamesSomething highly effective or attractive.

    • With five seconds remaining, Smith received the inbounds pass and launched a bomb that dropped through the net to give his team an 80-79 victory.
  • 19

    slangSomething highly effective or attractive.

    • Give me two bucks, you take a puff and pass my bomb back / Suck up that dank like a Slurpee, the serious / Bomb will make a niggy go delirious like Eddie Murphy
  • 20

    informalSomething highly effective or attractive.

    • Bacon-wrapped sausage stuffed with cheese, onions, jalapenos, and more bacon is as artery-clogging as it is delicious! […] Remove bacon bomb from the smoker; let rest for 30 minutes before slicing.
    • Amazing Pepperoni Pizza Bombs explode with flavor with every bite! They are loaded with pepperoni, cheese, and sauce to create a delicious POP of flavor in your mouth – hence the name!
  • 21

    A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.

    • A bomb for this study is defined as one in which the deepening rate is the geostrophic equivalent of at least 12 mb in 12 h at 45ºN.
  • 22

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.

    • The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb.
  • 23

    obsoleteA great booming noise; a hollow sound.

    • a Pillar of Iron […] Which if you had ſtrucke […] it would make a great Bombe in the Chamber beneath.
  • 24

    slangA woman’s breast.

    • Birdie was okay, and occasionally in passing Mort would give her a slap on the behind, or cop of feel of those bombs of hers.
    • voices from the crowd: Hit her below the belt. (Laughter) voices:Her bombs might explode!
  • 25

    governmenthobbieslifestyleA professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.

  • 26

    slangA recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.

  • 27

    An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.

    • In clear contravention of the International Code of Conduct for Swimming Baths, a teenager had entered the pool by performing a bomb.

bombverb/bɒm/

  • 1

    To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

    • 2000, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research, Volumes 32-33, page 65, 15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)
    • Italy had bombed cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.
  • 2

    To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

    • School days have been missed or cut short many times to accommodate soccer travel through the years, but this return felt different. Photos posted on his social media documenting the experience were seen by classmates, many of whom bombed him with questions about his future in the sport.
  • 3

    informalTo jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.

  • 4

    informalTo add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.

  • 5

    informalTo move at high speed.

    • I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.
  • 6

    slangTo make oneself drunk.

    • The calendar was selling Moctezuma beer, so I had one of them in her honor while Murray bombed himself with the mezcal.
    • TED: The champagne you ordered, sir. MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice. WIFE: But I want some now... MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.
  • 7

    slangTo cover an area in many graffiti tags.

    • It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
  • 8

    slangTo fail dismally.

    • I totally bombed that exam.
    • The nondiscrimination measures bombed at the polls, losing 18 percent to 82 percent. One gay activist in the city told GCN, "We got whupped."
另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo crash.

    • When things weren't going Alison's way at work — some editor wanted something changed or her computer bombed again — she'd cuss and yell at whoever happened to be in the way.
  • 10

    slangTo make a smelly mess in (a toilet).

  • 11

    obsoleteTo sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

    • What over-charged piece of melancholie / Is this, breakes in betweene my wishes thus, / With bombing sighs?
  • 12

    slangSynonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).

bombadj/bɒm/

  • 1

    slangGreat, awesome.

    • Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!

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