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drum

Word family

drum1 /drʌm/ S3 noun [countableC]

1 APMa musical instrument made of skin stretched over a circular frame, played by hitting it with your hand or a stick 鼓

a big bass drum

一面低音大鼓

1,000 people marched, beating drums and carrying flags.

1,000人打着鼓扛着旗遊行。

on drums

Trumpeter Red Rodney was playing with Kenny Clarke on drums (=playing the drums).

小號手雷德·羅德尼在肯尼·克拉克的鼓聲伴奏下表演。

Jones played the drums in an all-girl band.

瓊斯在一個女子樂隊裏打鼓。

→4 See picture of 見圖 drum

2 TCONTAIN/HOLDa large round container for storing liquids such as oil, chemicals etc 〔裝油、化學制品等液體的〕大桶

a 5-gallon oil drum

5加侖的油桶

→4 See picture of 見圖 CONTAINER →5 see picture at 見圖 container

3 Tsomething that looks like a drum, especially part of a machine 鼓狀物；〔尤指機器的〕鼓輪，滾筒

a brake drum

制動鼓

4 bang/beat the drum for somebody/something SAY/STATEto speak eagerly in support of someone or something 爲某人/某物竭力鼓吹[搖旗呐喊]

The company is banging the drum for their new software.

這家公司在大力宣傳自己的新軟件。

5 the drum of something Ca sound like the sound a drum makes 某物擊鼓似的聲音

the drum of the rain on the window

雨打在窗戶上發出的啪嗒聲

Examples from the Corpus

the drum of something• Sharp, guttural cries accompanied the drum of hooves.• This could be Pat Buchanan, beating the drum of working-class Republicanism.• The master copy is then placed round the drum of the duplicator.• But such long-termism is out of step not only with the more immediate demands of industry, but the drum of government policy.

→ eardrum

Examples from the Corpus

drum• The rear brake drums on the car need replacing.• Place on the cake drum next to the paintbox.• a 50-gallon drum of paint thinner• An oil drum was kicked away, rolling and crashing into the wall beside her.• The equipment used is much the same; the same drum machines as then.• One beat on an hourglass-shaped drum, while the other clashed large cymbals.• a snare drum• I rotated the nails so that a cheese paring of wax was scoured from the surface of the drum.• Faster and faster spun the wheels of light, and the throbbing of the drums accelerated with them.• The cap is retained in the unit and used to reseal the drum.

played the drums• Joe Donald played the drums and William and Nellie Addison who were brother and sister played violin and piano.

Related topics: Music, Colours & sounds

drum2 verb (drummed, drumming)

1. [intransitiveI]APM to play a drum 擊鼓，打鼓

2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]CHIT to make a sound similar to a drum by hitting a surface again and again 有節奏地擊打〔使發出打鼓似的聲音〕

I could hear the rain drumming against the windows.

我聽到雨滴有節奏地打在窗上的聲音。

Lisa drummed her fingers impatiently on the table.

莉薩不耐煩地用手指嗒嗒地敲桌子。

3 drum something home to use repeated arguments or messages in order to make sure that people understand something 重複某事以確保讓人明白

An information booklet will be available and press advertisements will drum home the message.

先提供資料手冊，再用報刊廣告進一步加深印象。

4 drum something into somebody phrasal verbphr v TELL/ORDER somebody TO DO somethingto keep telling someone something until they cannot forget it 向〔某人〕反複灌輸〔某種觀點直到記住爲止〕

‘Don’t talk to strangers’ is a message drummed into children.

“别跟陌生人說話” 是反複向兒童灌輸的一句警告。

Examples from the Corpus

drum into • The master is placed on a drum and comes into contact with damp rollers then ink rollers.• Jones drummed old-time learning into his chosen corps and, in March 1937, Richard sat the scholarship and passed it.• He'd given up trying to drum his fingers into his thigh.• What notes were these anyway banged out on a pan, petrol drums forged into spinets and harpsichords?• Ultimately the wooden drum was transmuted into the body of the membrane drum.• You have to drum it into them.• Shock tactics to drum safety into young drivers.

5 drum somebody out of something phrasal verbphr v SSOLEAVE A PLACEto force someone to leave an organization, place, or job 迫使〔某人〕離開〔某個組織、場所等〕；開除，逐出

He was drummed out of the army.

他被軍隊開除了。

6 drum something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v GETto get support, interest, attention etc from people by making an effort 爭取〔支持〕；引起〔興趣、注意等〕

He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation.

他遊遍拉丁美洲爲聯盟謀求支持。

The organization is using the event to drum up business (=get more work and sales).

這個機構將利用這次活動來增加業務。

Examples from the Corpus

drum up• The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin.• One by one, the concrete weighted drums were winched up and then sent crashing into the sea.

drum up business• Cheltenham & Gloucester and the Yorkshire are taking the discount route to drum up business.• They bought a truck and proceeded to drum up business.

Examples from the Corpus

drum• He drums his fingers on the chairback as he passes.• Rain drummed on the windows.• He could hear her drumming the desktop with her fingers, waiting for him to put the cover on the typewriter.• He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares.

drummed ... fingers• Harrison drummed his fingers impatiently against the surface of the table.• She pulled up her nightgown and drummed her fingers on her swollen belly.• Bowman drummed his fingers on the console.• I drummed my fingers on the desktop.• Mulcahey drummed his fingers on the table, tat-tat, tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat.• Herr Nordern gulped his beer and drummed his fingers on the table.• Venner grinned amiably around whilst Clinton, as cool as ever, drummed his fingers soundlessly on the table top.

From Longman Business Dictionary

drumdrum1 /drʌm/ noun [countableC]

a large round container for storing liquids such as oil, chemicals etc

a stack of oil drums

drumdrum2 verb (drummed, drumming)

→ drum something → up

Origin drum1

(1500-1600) Probably from Dutch trom

drum1 noundrum2 verb

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