1. 1地毯式轟炸

    To carpet-bomb a place is to drop a great many bombs over a small area so that almost everything in it is destroyed. The picture in the word is a carpet: the bombs are meant to cover the ground completely, not hit one target with care. It is a military word, and a heavy one. The related noun is carpet bombing. People also stretch the verb in news and everyday talk: a company might carpet-bomb a city with advertisements, meaning they flood the place. That looser use is common, but it still carries a feeling of too much, all at once, with little care for what gets hit.

組成carpet + bomb. Carpet here is the picture of covering a whole area, the way a carpet covers a floor.

同家族的字

  • carpetthe bombs are meant to cover the ground the way a carpet covers a floor
  • bombthe thing being dropped

原始詞典資料1 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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • carpet bomb

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。