| 单词 | bounce |
| 释义 | bounce (baʊns ) Word forms: bounces , bouncing , bounced 1. verb B2 When an object such as a ball bounces or when you bounce it, it moves upwards from a surface or away from it immediately after hitting it. I bounced a ball against the house. [VERB noun preposition] My father would burst into the kitchen bouncing a football. [VERB noun] ...a falling pebble, bouncing down the eroded cliff. [VERB preposition/adverb] They watched the dodgem cars bang and bounce. [VERB] Bounce is also a noun. The wheelchair tennis player is allowed two bounces of the ball. 2. uncountable noun [usually with supplement] The bounce of a sports field is the condition of it, which determines how high a ball will bounce on it. 3. verb If sound or light bounces off a surface or is bounced off it, it reaches the surface and is reflected back. Your arms and legs need protection from light bouncing off glass. [V + off] They work by bouncing microwaves off solid objects. [V n + off] 4. verb If something bounces or if something bounces it, it swings or moves up and down. Her long black hair bounced as she walked. [VERB] Then I noticed the car was bouncing up and down as if someone were jumping on it. [VERB adverb] The wind was bouncing the branches of the big oak trees. [VERB noun] 5. verb B2 If you bounce on a soft surface, you jump up and down on it repeatedly. She lets us do anything, even bounce on our beds. [VERB preposition/adverb] 6. verb If you bounce a child on your knee, you lift him or her up and down quickly and repeatedly for fun. Patsy had picked up the baby and was bouncing him on her knee. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] 7. verb If someone bounces somewhere, they move there in an energetic way, because they are feeling happy. Moira bounced into the office. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: bound, spring, jump, leap 8. verb If you bounce your ideas off someone, you tell them to that person, in order to find out what they think about them. It was good to bounce ideas off another mind. [V n + off] Let's bounce a few ideas around. [V n around] 9. verb If someone bounces you into doing something you do not really want to do, they make you do it, usually by starting a process which cannot easily be stopped. [British, journalism] Attempts have been made to bounce member states into decisions. [V n into n/-ing] 10. verb If a cheque bounces or if a bank bounces it, the bank refuses to accept it and pay out the money, because the person who wrote it does not have enough money in their account. Our only complaint would be if the cheque bounced. [VERB] His bank wrongly bounced cheques worth £75,000. [VERB noun] 11. verb [VERB] If an email or other electronic message bounces, it is returned to the person who sent it because the address was wrong or because of a problem with one of the computers involved in sending it. [computing] Phrasal verbs: bounce back phrasal verb If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity. We lost two or three early games in the World Cup, but we bounced back. [VERB PARTICLE] He is young enough to bounce back from this disappointment. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] Collocations: bounce a signal And put enough satellites into orbit to bounce the signals into your house, wherever it was. Times, Sunday Times They do so in roughly the same way, by bouncing a signal (prayer) off something that stands outside the earth, and listening carefully to how it returns. Times, Sunday Times He'd bounced the signal off an aerial on a farm shed a mile away. Times, Sunday Times Sonar: a ceiling-mounted sensor measured a visitor's height by bouncing a signal off the top of the head. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it was a good strike and a lucky bounce. The Sun Each putt or lucky bounce could be the difference between returning empty-handed and winning the 500 first prize. Times, Sunday Times Wasps' sole first-half try came courtesy of a lucky bounce from a lineout they had already messed up. Times, Sunday Times And as the podium result shows, his team had a lucky bounce in retaining him. Times, Sunday Times Within one strike, one lucky bounce, of parity; within two of the most extraordinary comeback in this competition's history. Times, Sunday Times In situ the sound bounces like a golf ball against the grand tier or sinks like an inflatable beach toy with a puncture. Times, Sunday Times He clicks his tongue on the roof of his mouth and discovers where objects are based on how the sound bounces back. The Sun Every sound bounces off the walls. Times, Sunday Times But the inverted type, called a circumzenithal arc, happens when sunlight bounces off ice crystals high in the atmosphere sending the rays back up. The Sun Reflected sunlight bounces around the caves in a disco-like randomness of flashes, waves and glows. Times, Sunday Times At this time of year, a glint of sunlight bounces off the mist and sparkles on the ripples. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 反弹 Japanese: 弾む |
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