Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense bums, present participle bumming, past tense, past participle bummed
1N-COUNT 屁股;臀部 Someone's bum is the part of their body which they sit on. 屁股;臀部 [British, informal]
2N-COUNT 乞丐;无业游民 A bum is a person who has no permanent home or job and who gets money by working occasionally or by asking people for money. 乞丐;无业游民 [US, informal]
3N-COUNT 无赖;废物;瘪三 If someone refers to another person as a bum, they think that person is worthless or irresponsible. 无赖;废物;瘪三 [informal, disapproval]
5VERB 讨要;提出要 If you bum something off someone, you ask them for it and they give it to you. 讨要;提出要 [informal]
Mind if I bum a cigarette? [VERB noun]
能给我一支烟吗?
SYN scrounge [informal], cadge, beg, touch (someone) for [slang]
6VERB 闲逛;游荡 If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do. 闲逛;游荡
I think they're just bumming around at the moment, not doing a lot.
我想他们目前只是在四处闲逛,没做多少事。
She went off to bum round the world with a boyfriend.
8PHRASE 招揽观众 If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it. 招揽观众 [British, informal]
He is one of the few players who puts bums on seats.
1 (informal) (BrE) person's bottom屁股ADJECTIVE | VERB + BUM | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤big大屁股➤bare光屁股VERB + BUM➤feel, pinch摸屁股;揑屁股◇A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.在火車上有個男子揑她屁股,她打了那人。➤sit on坐着◇They've been sitting on their bums all day, doing nothing.他們一整天就那麼坐着,什麼事都沒做。PHRASES➤put bums on seats招攬觀眾◇The tennis stars' animosity was a publicity stunt, aimed at putting bums on seats.網球球星的敵意是作秀,目的是吸引觀眾。bum
noun²
2 (informal) (especially NAmE) lazy/useless person懶人;無用的人ADJECTIVE➤lazy懶漢➤drunken酒鬼▸➤beach, ski喜歡在海灘鬼混的人;滑雪迷◇He dropped out of college and became a beach bum.他從大學退學,整天在海灘閒逛。