bom·bard
verb/bɒmˈbɑːd/
/bɑːmˈbɑːrd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bombard | /bɒmˈbɑːd/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrd/ |
| he / she / it bombards | /bɒmˈbɑːdz/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrdz/ |
| past simple bombarded | /bɒmˈbɑːdɪd/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪd/ |
| past participle bombarded | /bɒmˈbɑːdɪd/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪd/ |
| -ing form bombarding | /bɒmˈbɑːdɪŋ/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪŋ/ |
- bombard somebody/something (with something) to attack a place by firing large guns at it or dropping bombs on it continuously
轰炸；轰击 - Madrid was heavily bombarded for several months.
马德里遭到了数月的猛烈轰炸。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- Madrid was heavily bombarded for several months.
- bombard somebody/something (with something) to attack somebody with a lot of questions, criticisms, etc. or by giving them too much information
大量提问；大肆抨击；提供过多信息 - We have been bombarded with letters of complaint.
我们接二连三收到了大批的投诉信件。 - We are bombarded daily with propaganda about what we should eat.
我们每天都收到海量宣传，告诉我们应该吃什么。
Extra Examples- We're all constantly bombarded with television ads.
我们都时常处在电视广告的狂轰滥炸之下。 - The interviewer bombarded her with intimate questions.
采访者连珠炮似地向她提出了许多涉及个人隐私的问题。 - The local newspaper has been bombarded with letters from angry residents.
当地报纸遭到愤怒居民的来信轰炸。 - The media bombard us continually with images of how we should look.
媒体不断地用我们应该如何打扮的图片轰炸我们。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- constantly
- continually
- with
- We have been bombarded with letters of complaint.
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun denoting an early form of cannon, also a shawm) from Old French bombarde, probably based on Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin. The verb (late 16th cent.) is from French bombarder.