4a lump in/to somebody’s throatCRYa feeling that you want to cry 某人喉咙哽住,某人哽咽欲泣
There was a lump in her throat as she gazed at the child.
她凝视着孩子,哽咽欲哭。
Examples from the Corpus
a lump in/to somebody’s throat• That thought brought a lump to my throat, tears to my eyes.• Melanie felt a lump in her throat; it was a touching and whole-heartedwelcome.• Even the StationCommander had a lump in his throat.• When she finishedCharlie found that he had a lump in his throat.• Kathleen swalloweda lump in her throat, Ben coughed discreetly and Jackbusied himself at the X-ray box.• There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gauntfeatures.• For a moment she said nothing, she just swallowed as if there were a lump in her throat.
5take your lumpsAmerican EnglishAmE informal to accept the bad things that happen and not let them affect you 认倒霉,勉强忍受
According to experts, the company took its lumps but is on the road to profitability.
1lump itinformalACCEPT to accept a situation or decision you do not like because you cannot change it 无奈地接受,勉强同意
They’ve been told: take the lower interest rate, or lump it.
有人告诉他们,要么接受更低的利率,要么就这样。
It’s the law so you can like it or lump it.
这是法律,不管你喜不喜欢都得接受。
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lump it• I don't like it-but I can lump it!• If I were you I'd tell them if they don't like it, lump it.• They've been told: take the lowerinterestrate - or lump it.
2TOGETHERto put two or more different people or things together and consider them as a single group, sometimes wrongly 〔有时错误地〕把…归并在一起
lump something together
You can’t lump the symptoms together and blame them all on stress.
你不能把这些症状混为一谈,通通归结为压力太大的缘故。
lump somebody/something in with somebody/something
The danger is that people who pay their bills on time will be lumped in with those that don’t.
lump something together• The statisticslump all minority students together.
From Longman Business Dictionary
lumplump1 /lʌmp/ noun
1take the/your lumpsAmerican EnglishAmE informal to have some problems
They took their lumps but they’re on the road to profitability.
2the lumpBritish EnglishBrE informal a system of employing workers in the building industry. Workers who are self-employed are paid a fixedamount of money for each day, often in cash
Some subcontractors expect to be paid on the lump.
lumplump2adjectiveadj
lump labourBritish EnglishBrE self-employed workers in the building industry who are paid a fixed amount of money for each day, often in cash
growth in the amount of lump labour employed in the construction industry