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- a rounded protuberance found on the back of a camel or other animal or as an abnormality on a person's back驼峰; （人或动物背部的）隆肉, 驼背。
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- a rounded raised mass of earth or land小圆丘, 岗。
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- a mound over which railway vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity over points to the required place in a marshalling yard（铁路调车场里使车辆依靠重力滑到规定地方的）驼峰。
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- with obj. and adverbial of direction informal lift or carry (a heavy object) with difficulty〈非正式〉背; 扛; 搬运（重物）：
he continued to hump cases up and down the hotel corridor.
他一直在旅馆走廊上下搬运箱子。
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- with obj. make hump-shaped成隆起。
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- no obj. vulgar slang have sexual intercourse〈粗俚〉性交。
短语
get（或have）the hump
- Brit. informal become or be annoyed or irritated〈英, 非正式〉生气, 恼火。
over the hump
- over the worst or most difficult part of something已度过最糟糕（或最困难）的阶段。
派生词
humped
adjectivea humped back
驼背
humpless
adjectivehumpy
adjective （humpier, humpiest）词源
early 18th cent.: probably related to Low German humpe 'hump', also to Dutch homp, Low German humpe 'lump, hunk (of bread)'.