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bomb/bɒm/ n. & v.●n. 1a a container with explosive, incendiary material, smoke, or gas etc., designed to explode on impact or by means of a lit fuse, time mechanism, or remote-control device (带炸弹、引燃物、烟、气等的)炸弹,爆炸装置 b an ordinary object fitted with an explosive device 装有爆炸装置的一般物品 letter bomb 书信炸弹 2 (prec. by 前接 the) the atomic or hydrogen bomb considered as a weapon with supreme destructive power 原子弹(或氢弹) 3 Brit. slang a large sum of money [英] [俚语]大笔钱 cost a bomb 值大笔钱 4 a mass of solidified lava thrown from a volcano 火山弹(火山喷出的固化熔岩) 5 N. Amer. colloq. a bad failure (esp. a theatrical one) [北美口] (尤指演出)大失败 6 Brit. slang a drugged cigarette [英] [俚语]搀毒品的香烟 ●v. 1 tr. attack with bombs; drop bombs on 轰炸,投弹于 2 tr. (foll. by 后跟 out) drive (a person etc.) out of a building or refuge by using bombs 把(人等)炸得无家可归 3 intr. throw or drop bombs 轰炸,投弹 4 intr. esp. US slang fail badly [尤美] [俚语]大败,惨败 5 intr. (usu. foll. by 通常后跟 along, off) colloq. move or go very quickly [口]疾行,飞驶 □ go down a bomb Brit. colloq., often iron. be very well received [英口] [常讽]很受欢迎 □ like a bomb Brit. colloq. [英口] 1 often iron. very successfully [常讽]大获成功 2 very fast 极快 [French bombe via Italian bomba and Latin bombus from Greek bombos ‘boom, hum’] |