| 单词 | drumfire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrumfire drumfire n. continuous and rapid artillery fire; frequently figurative. [Apparently after German Trommelfeuer (July 1915 or earlier); quot. 1915 is from an article by a U.S. war correspondent who observed the battle from the German side.] ΚΠ 1915 N.Y. Times 27 June 2/1 To the left, toward Ecurie, the artillery duel is fiercest. A nerve-shattering ‘drum fire’ is on. 1918 Washington Post 2 July 5/2 Playgoers who have been trained this season under the drum-fire of thinly-camouflaged salaciousness will accept even these examples of the double-entendre without flinching. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 98/3 We expose ourselves quite unnecessarily to a drumfire of criticism. 1993 I. M. Banks Against Dark Background 349 The helicopter came swinging round the peninsula, its engine-voice rattling like drumfire. 2009 H. J. Teuteberg in D. J. Oddy et al. Rise of Obesity in Europe vi. 77 The drumfire of modern advertising is said to be one of the causes of an excessive, unhealthy consumption of food. < as lemmas |
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