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This word describes a heavy, heartbeat-like sound or feeling - your heart is 'thumping' when it beats hard and fast, often from fear, excitement, or exercise. It can also describe any loud, heavy, repeated banging sound, like someone 'thumping' on a door. , especially in British English, 'a thumping win' or 'a thumping majority' means a very big, decisive one.
(心跳)撲通撲通的；(聲音)咚咚的重擊聲；(口語，英式)壓倒性的
組成thump + ing. 'Thump' is the base word for a heavy dull sound or hit; '-ing' describes it happening now, or turns it into a describing word.
同家族的字
- thumpthe base word this comes from
原始詞典資料6 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。
thumpingadj/ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
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informalExceptional in some degree.
thumpingadv/ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
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informalExceptionally. Very.
- A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.
thumpingnoun/ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
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A dull, heavy sound.
- They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade[.]
- There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
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A beating.
- He received a thumping from the school bully.
- And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA heavy defeat.
- Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。