单词 | dump |
释义 | dump I. 1. obsolete 2. < doleful dumps the mind oppress — Shakespeare > < she will be there to cuddle him, praise him, help him out of his occasional dumps — H.A.Overstreet > < she gets easily discouraged and down in the dumps > 3. obsolete a. b. Synonyms: see sadness II. intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. obsolete transitive verb obsolete III. 1. dialect Britain < dumps of soft paper … to arrest bleeding — B.H.Chamberlain > specifically 2. a. b. 3. archaic IV. transitive verb 1. a. < had proceeded to the wharf and had dumped the first shipload of tea into the harbor — C.G.Bowers > < she dumped the contents of her purse onto the table > < uncork the bottle and dump the stuff out — D.B.Chidsey > < a hydraulic hoist to tip the truck body and dump the coal out > < the conveyor dumped the dirt into self-discharging barges — N.M.Clark > b. < France dumped her third government in a few months > < captains of industry speedily dumped labor from their payrolls, and the breadlines grew — Stringfellow Barr > < the indenture system offered huge profits to the masters of the vessels which dumped their human cargo on American shores — A.D.Graeff > < the biggest problem that was ever dumped into his lap > 2. slang < dumped their attackers, who scrambled to their feet and fled > 3. Australia 4. < some factory owners fear that the military will dump surplus goods on the market at cut-rate prices — New York Times > < the union complained that foreign residual oil, dumped into this country with low import taxes, had displaced more than 30 million tons of coal production — Wall Street Journal > 5. intransitive verb 1. 2. < no dumping allowed > V. 1. a. < the city dump caught fire > < is now a resort town, but its former greatness shows in the tremendous dumps and the sprawling buildings of the Argo mine — G.R.Stewart > b. 2. a. < we have laid out dumps of food and petrol across the polar plateau — Edmund Hillary > b. (1) < ammunition dump > (2) 3. < instead of working in such a dump he could have been in his comfortable hotel room — Morley Callaghan > 4. < fresh avalanche dumps contain large quantities of snow and ice, with occasional rock inclusions — R.L.Ives > 5. 6. VI. 1. 2. 3. < dumped the ball to the fullback > — often used with off • - dump on VII. 1. 2. |
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