Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense hammers, present participle hammering, past tense, past participle hammered
1N-COUNT 锤子;榔头 A hammer is a tool that consists of a heavy piece of metal at the end of a handle. It is used, for example, to hit nails into a piece of wood or a wall, or to break things into pieces. 锤子;榔头
He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
他用榔头和凿子铲墙。
SYN mallet, gavel
2VERB 用锤击;锤打 If you hammer an object such as a nail, you hit it with a hammer. 用锤击;锤打 [Also VERB n] [Also VERBPREPOSITION n]
To avoid damaging the tree, hammer a wooden peg into the hole. [VERB noun prep./adv.]
为了不毁坏树,用锤子将一个木栓钉进洞里。
Builders were still hammering outside the window. [VERB]
Hammer in means the same as hammer .hammer in 同 hammer
The workers kneel on the ground and hammer the small stones in.
工人们跪在地上,将小石子锤进去。
hammering
The noise of hammering was dulled by the secondary glazing.
因为隔着双层玻璃,锤子的敲打声变低沉了。
3VERB (反复)敲打 If you hammer on a surface, you hit it several times in order to make a noise, or to emphasize something you are saying when you are angry. (反复)敲打
We had to hammer and shout before they would open up. [VERB]
我们不停地拍门、叫喊,他们才开了门。
A crowd of reporters was hammering on the door. [VERB + on]
一群记者正在砰砰地拍打着大门。
He hammered his two clenched fists on the table. [VERB noun + on]
他双拳紧握,重重地捶着桌子。
hammering
As he said it, there was a hammering outside.
他说这话时,外面传来一阵敲打声。
4VERB 强行灌输;反复强调 If you hammer something such as an idea into people or you hammer at it, you keep repeating it forcefully so that it will have an effect on people. 强行灌输;反复强调
He hammered it into me that I had not suddenly become a rotten goalkeeper. [VERB noun + into]
他反复告诉我,我并没有一下子变成个差劲的守门员。
Recent advertising campaigns from the industry have hammered at these themes. [VERB + at]
5VERB 猛烈攻击;大力批评;严厉惩罚 If you say that someone hammers another person, you mean that they attack, criticize, or punish the other person severely. 猛烈攻击;大力批评;严厉惩罚 [mainly British]
The report hammers the private motorist. [VERB noun]
该报告严词谴责了那个私家车司机。
If we turned up late we would be hammered by everybody.
6V-PASSIVE (因税收政策变化、经济不景气等)使(企业)受到打击 If you say that businesses are being hammered, you mean that they are being unfairly harmed, for example by a change in taxes or by bad economic conditions. (因税收政策变化、经济不景气等)使(企业)受到打击 [British]
Look at the numbers of small businesses that are being hammered unmercifully. [beVERB-ed]
看看有多少小企业正在遭受无情的打击。
The company has been hammered by the downturn in the construction and motor industries. [beVERB-ed]
公司因建筑和汽车行业的衰退而受到了冲击。
7VERB (在体育比赛中)使惨败,大败 In sports, if you say that one player or team hammered another, you mean that the first player or team defeated the second completely and easily. (在体育比赛中)使惨败,大败 [British, journalism]
He hammered the young Austrian player in four straight sets. [VERB noun]
Our cricketers are suffering their ritual hammering at the hands of the Aussies.
我们的板球队员们照例又狠栽在了澳大利亚队的手上。
8VERB (通常指因恐惧而心脏)快速跳动 If someone's heart is hammering, it is beating very fast, usually because they are frightened. (通常指因恐惧而心脏)快速跳动 [literary]
My heart was hammering. The footsteps had stopped outside my door. [VERB]
我的心怦怦直跳。脚步声已停在我的门外。
9N-COUNT (机械设备中的)锤状物;(枪上的)击铁;(钢琴的)音槌 In machines and instruments, a hammer is a part that hits another part. For example, in a gun the hammer causes the explosion which makes the bullet shoot out of it, and in a piano the hammers hit the strings and cause the sounds. (机械设备中的)锤状物;(枪上的)击铁;(钢琴的)音槌
10N-COUNT (田径运动中所掷的)链球 In athletics, a hammer is a heavy weight on a piece of wire, which the athlete throws as far as possible. (田径运动中所掷的)链球
The hammer also refers to the sport of throwing the hammer.掷链球运动
Events like the hammer and the discus are not traditional crowd-pullers in the West.
掷链球和铁饼等在西方算不上传统的受欢迎项目。
11PHRASE 满腔热情地;劲头十足地 If you say that someone was going at something hammer and tongs, you mean that they were doing it with great enthusiasm or energy. 满腔热情地;劲头十足地
He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work.
他酷爱侍弄花草。只要下班一回到家,他就兴冲冲地忙活起来。
They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.
他们又叫又喊又吵,每晚都要乐此不疲地闹腾6个小时。
12PHRASE 被拍卖 If you say that something goes, comes, or is under the hammer, you mean that it is going to be sold at an auction. 被拍卖
Ian Fleming's original unpublished notes are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby's.
VERB + HAMMER | HAMMER + NOUN | PHRASESVERB + HAMMER➤hit sth with, tap sth with, use, wield用錘子敲打⋯;用榔頭擊打⋯;用錘子;掄錘子▸➤swing揮舞錘子◇He swung the hammer with all his strength.他奮力掄起錘子。HAMMER + NOUN➤blow (oftenfigurative) 重擊◇The decision is a hammer blow for the coal industry.這一決定對煤炭工業是一個沉重打擊。PHRASES➤a hammer and chisel, a hammer and nails錘子和鑿子;錘子和釘子▸➤hammer and sickle錘子和鐮刀(圖案)◇the hammer and sickle of the Soviet flag蘇聯國旗上的錘子和鐮刀