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a weapon designed to explode at a particular time or when it is dropped or thrown 炸彈 a bomb goes off/explodes 炸彈爆炸 Hundreds of bombs were dropped on the city. 幾百枚炸彈投到了這座城市。 to plant/detonate a bomb 放置/引爆炸彈 a suicide bomb 自殺炸彈 a roadside bomb (= one that is designed to blow up vehicles) 路邊炸彈 a bomb attack/blast 炸彈襲擊/爆炸 extensive bomb damage 轟炸造成的巨大破壞
Extra ExamplesTopics War and conflictb1A terrorist bomb ripped through the town's packed shopping centre. 恐怖分子的炸彈穿過鎮上人頭攢動的購物中心。 Eighty people died when bombs rained down on the city's crowded streets. 炸彈在城市擁擠的街道上雨點般落下,造成 80 人死亡。 Enemy planes dropped bombs along the railway line. 敵機在鐵路沿線投下炸彈。 He used a clock to make a home-made bomb. 他用時鐘自制了一個炸彈。 India started to build a nuclear bomb. 印度開始制造核彈。 Police suspect terrorists planted the bomb. 警方懷疑恐怖分子放置了那枚炸彈。 The bombs were strapped to their chests. 炸彈綁在他們的胸前。 The land was scarred with bomb craters. 地面千瘡百孔,布滿了彈坑。 The plane had been adapted to carry bombs. 飛機經過改造可以攜帶炸彈。 The suspect was apprehended for planting a fake bomb in a bus terminal. 嫌犯因在公共汽車終點站放置假炸彈而被捕。 Their truck was hit by a stray bomb. 他們的卡車被一顆流彈擊中。 a practice flight with dummy bombs 用練習彈進行的飛行演習 There was no warning of the bomb blast which ripped through the packed station. 擁擠的車站發生猛烈的炸彈爆炸,事前並無警告。 On a pleasure trip from Umbria to Milan, a terrorist bomb goes off in Emily 's train carriage. 在一次從翁布裏亞到米蘭的愉快旅行中,一枚恐怖炸彈在艾米麗的火車車廂裏爆炸了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- huge
- large
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- place
- plant
- put
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- fall
- rain
- rain down
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- attack
- blast
- explosion
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- the bomb[singular]
nuclear weapons (atomic or hydrogen bombs) 核武器;核彈 countries that have the bomb 擁有核武器的國家
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- huge
- large
- …
- place
- plant
- put
- …
- fall
- rain
- rain down
- …
- attack
- blast
- explosion
- …
- a bomb[singular] (British English, informal)
a lot of money 很多錢 That dress must have cost a bomb! 那條連衣裙花費不菲吧! Some company directors make an absolute bomb. 有些公司董事賺很多錢。
- a bomb[singular] (North American English, informal)
a complete failure Topics Difficulty and failurec2徹底的失敗 - [countable] (North American English)
(in American football )美式足球 a long forward throw of the ball Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2長傳 - [countable] (North American English)
a container in which a liquid such as paint or insect poison is kept under pressure and released as a spray or as foam 氣溶膠彈式容器(油漆、殺蟲劑等液體加壓貯存可噴出) a bug bomb (= used for killing insects) 噴霧殺蟲劑
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Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin.
Idioms
be the bomb
go down a bomb | go (like) a bomb
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to be very successful 十分成功 Our performance went down a bomb. 我們的演出獲得了巨大成功。 The party was really going (like) a bomb. 聚會辦得非常成功。 Her new novel is going like a bomb (= selling well). 她的新小說賣得很好。
go like a bomb
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(of a vehicle )車輛等 to go very fast 飛馳