5(get) a bigger/better etc bang for your buckinformal something that gives you a good effect or a lot of value for the effort or money you spend on it 〔从自己投入的努力或金钱中〕得到好处
Are taxpayers getting enough bang for their buck?
纳税人得到足够的回报了吗?
6.get a bang out of somethingAmerican EnglishAmE spoken to enjoy something very much 从某事中得到乐趣
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get a bang out of something• She got a real bang out of seeing the kids in the school play.
bang• "I heard a bang and then I heard shots, " said Saxton, a tourist from Australia.• Small children are often frightrened of fireworks that make a bang.• The lid of the boxfellshut with a bang.• I heard a loud bang - it sounded like something had fallen down upstairs.• There was a loud bang as the bombexploded.• The firework went off with a loud bang.• The frontdoorslammed with a loud bang.• If you can afford it, leather has a lot of bang for a lot of bucks.• He walkedaway from the accident with only a slightbang on the head.• He lay on the horn again; there was another, more violentbang.
2KNOCK/HIT something[transitiveT]CHIT to put something down or against something with a lot of force, making a loud noise 猛摔
bang something down
She banged the phone down.
她啪的一声把电话扔下。
bang something on/against something
He banged a teapot on the table.
他把茶壶往桌子上一摔。
3CLOSE something[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep, transitiveT]SHUT/CLOSE to close something violently, making a loud noise, or to be closed in this way (把…)砰地关上SYN slam
I ran out, banging the door behind me.
我冲出去,砰的一声把门摔上。
The window banged shut.
窗户砰的一声关上了。
4HIT something[transitiveT]HIT/BUMP INTO to hit a part of your body, or something you are carrying, against something by accident 〔意外地〕撞击,磕SYN bump
bang something on something
I fell and banged my head on the pavement.
我摔了一跤,头撞在人行道上。
5MAKE NOISE[intransitiveI]CSOUND to make a loud noise or loud noises 砰砰作响
The gate keeps banging in the wind.
大门被风吹得乒乓作响。
6.HAVE SEX[transitiveT] not politeSEX/HAVE SEX WITH to have sex with someone 与〔某人〕发生性关系
→ bang the drum for somebody/somethingat drum1(4), → bang somebody’s heads togetherat head1(32), → be (like) banging your head against a brick wallat head1(31)PHRASAL VERBS
7bang about/aroundphrasal verbphr vto move around a place, making a lot of noise 咚咚地跑来跑去
We could hear them banging about upstairs.
我们听到他们在楼上咚咚咚地跑来跑去。
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bang about/around• He yawned as he did it, and banged about a bit, so I felt that I had to go.• All electricalequipmentgenerates electrical noise-electrons banging around in the metal of the equipment itself.• He banged about in the scullery, hunting for wire.• We could hear them banging about, shifting things and wondered nervously if we were in for another move.
8bang onphrasal verbphr vBritish EnglishBrETALK TO somebody informal to talk continuously about something in a boring way 啰嗦个没完SYN go on
about
I wish he wouldn’t keep banging on about politics.
我希望他不要一直哇啦哇啦地讲政治了。
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bang about• The North will not get that investment if certaininfluential people keeping banging on about how wonderful things are.• I won't go banging on about the open fireplace again, but to my mind that was certainly one of them.
9bang something ↔ outphrasal verbphr v informal
a)APMto play a tune or song loudly and badly on a piano 〔在钢琴上〕使劲乱敲地弹奏〔乐曲或歌曲〕
b)WRITEto write something in a hurry, especially using a keyboard 〔尤指用键盘〕匆忙赶写,匆匆地打出来
10bang somebody/something ↔ upphrasal verbphr v informal
a)SCJSCPBritish EnglishBrE to put someone in prison 把…关押起来,监禁
b)DAMAGEAmerican EnglishAmE to seriously damage something 使…严重受损
a banged-up old Buick
一辆破破烂烂的旧别克轿车
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bang up• And he banged the gun up and down on the gate.• The banging kept up at the door.• Giovanna was in the house, banging the washing up unhappily into a bowl of chlorinated water.
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bang• I banged at the door but nobody came.• They were bangingdrums and chanting.• Thomas banged his fist on the table.• He banged his head against the floor.• In so doing, I banged into the edge of the sink and fell to the floor.• During the day I sitbanging my drum and watching good actorssinging my words.• I banged my toe on the door.• He complained loudly until Val finally banged on the table and shouted at him.• Sherman banged the door shut.• He got out of the car and banged the door.• I slipped and banged the guitar against the door.• There's no clutchpedal, you just bang the lever into forward and floor it.• She banged the phone down a second before he did, leaving him raging.• I banged the phone down.• She pulled the doll out before the blocksbangedtogether.• The pipes bang when you turn the hot water on.
bang on• Laramie was banging on the wall and yelling.
banged shut• The screen door banged shut.• This time the car stopped and a door banged shut.• The office door banged shut and the Monsignorgroaned.• The door banged shutbehind Becky.• Beloved heard them as soon as the door banged shut behind her.• Children's voices, objects being hurled about schoolroom, booksbanged shut, games of chase, etc.• The door banged shut, its echoespunctuated by the sound of bolts being slammed home.
3bang goes somethingBritish EnglishBrE spokenNOT HAVE used to show that you are unhappy because something you had hoped for will not happen 某事完蛋了,某事告吹了〔表示因期待的事不会发生而不开心〕