| 释义 |
▪ I. din, n.1|dɪn|
Forms: 1–5 dyne, 1–7 dyn, 3 dune |-y-|, 3–7 dine, 3 – din (also 4 deone, dene, 5–6 dynne, 5–7 dinne, 7 deane, dynn, dinn).
[OE. dyne (:—OTeut.*duni-z), and dynn, corresp. to ON. dynr din (:— *dunju-z or *dunjo-z); f. Germanic root dun-: cf. Skr. dhûni roaring, a torrent; also ON. duna fem. ‘rushing or thundering noise’ (perh. a later formation from the verb). Elsewhere in WGer. only the derived vb. appears: see din v.]
A loud noise; particularly a continued confused or resonant sound, which stuns or distresses the ear.
a1000Satan 466 (Gr.) Se dyne becom hlud of heofonum. a1000Sal. & Sat. 324 (Gr.) Þæt heo domes dæᵹes dyn ᵹehyre. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 117 Þo com a dine of heuene. c1205Lay. 11574 Þer wes swiðe muchel dune Þeines þer dremden. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3467 Smoke upreked and munt quaked..Ai was moses one in ðis dine. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7427 Als wode men dose..and makes gret dyn. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxi. 65 The erthe quook..And dede men for þat deon comen oute of deope graues. c1400Destr. Troy 274 Sone he dressit to his dede & no dyn made. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 281 To vincust thame with litill sturt or dyn. 1589R. Harvey P. Perc. (1590) 21 A man may stop his eares to hear their dinne. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 371 Ile..make thee rore, That beasts shall tremble at thy dyn. 1667Milton P.L. x. 521 Dreadful was the din Of hissing through the Hall. 1712Steele Spect. No. 509 ⁋2 The din of squallings, oaths, and cries of beggars. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. iii, Faint, and more faint, its failing din Returned from cavern, cliff, and linn. 1848Lytton Harold xi. vi, From the hall..came the din of tumultuous wassail. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 1 All the steeples from the Abbey to the Tower sent forth a joyous din.
b. The subjective impression of a sounding or ringing in the ears.
1651Hobbes Leviath. i. i. 3 Pressing the Eare, produceth a dinne. 1787Cowper Let. 29 Sept., I have a perpetual din in my head and..hear nothing aright.
▪ II. din, v.
Pa. tense and pple. dinned |dɪnd|. Forms: 1 dynnan, dynian, 3 dunen, -ien, denie, dinen, 4 denen, dennen, donen, 4–6 dyn(n, 5 dunnyn, 4– din.
[In I., OE. dynnan, dynian = OS. dunian to give forth a sound, ON. dynja (dundi) to come rumbling down, to gush, pour, MDu. and NRh. dunen, MHG. tünen to roar, rumble, thunder, all:—OTeut. *dunjan, from root of din n. ON. had also duna to thunder, rumble:—OTeut. *dunôjan. In II. app. a new formation from the n.]
I.
†1. intr. (In OE. and ME.) To sound, ring with sound, resound. Obs.
Beowulf 1538 (Th.) Siðþæt se hearm-scaða to Heorute ateah, dryht-sele dynede. c1205Lay. 30410 Þa eorðe gon to dunien. a1225St. Marher. (1866) 20 Þa þuhte hit as þah a þunre dunede. a1300Cursor M. 1770 (Cott.) Þe erth quok and dind again [v.rr. dinned, dynet, dened]. a1300K. Horn 592 Þe fole schok þe brunie Þat al þe curt gan denie. 1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 131 To schir colyne sic dusche he gave That he dynnyt on his arsoune. c1430Syr Gener. (Helm. MS.) 1 b, He uncoupled his houndes and blew his horn, Al the forest dynned of that blast. 1513Douglas æneis xi. i. 89 So lowd thair wofull bewaling habundis, That all the palice dynnis and resoundis.
†b. Of persons: To make a loud noise; to roar.
c1450Golagros & Gaw. vii, Than dynnyt the duergh, in angir and yre, With raris, quhil the rude hall reirdit agane.
II.
2. trans. To assail with din or wearying vociferation.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. To Rdr., Why should the ears of all the neighborhood be dinn'd..with the Cackle? 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 85, I want not to have my ears dinned by him and his dotards. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 377 With never-ceasing words On this and that side is the hero dinned. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xix. 265 The deafening causeway that had dinned our ears for days past.
3. To make to resound; to utter continuously so as to deafen or weary, to repeat ad nauseam; esp. in phr. to din (something) into (some one's) ears.
1724Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 32 This hath often been dinned in my ears. 1830Scott Demonol. vii. 218 Horrors which were dinned into their ears all day. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 272 My own and other people's cares Are dinned incessant in my ears. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy i, The head man had been dinning his instructions into him. 1877Black Green Past. xxxix. (1878) 315 It was the one word Gazette that kept dinning itself into his ears.
4. intr. To make a din; to resound; to give forth deafening or distressing noise.
1794Wordsw. Guilt & Sorrow xlvi, The bag-pipe dinning on the midnight moor. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 63 His wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness. 1831J. Wilson Unimore vi. 13 Steep water-falls, for ever musical, Keep dinning on. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 228, I am perplexed when I hear the voices of Thrasymachus and myriads of others dinning in my ears.
▪ III. din
dial. form of dun a. |