drum
n
1 (music 音) instrument consisting of a hollow round frame with plastic or skin stretched tightly across the open end(s) which is struck with sticks or the hands 鼓
play the drum(s) in a band 在樂隊中打鼓. =>illus at App 1 見附錄1之插圖, page xi.
2 thing shaped like this instrument, eg a barrel for oil, a hollow cylinder on which wire is wound, or the container for clothes in a washing-machine or clothes drier 鼓狀物(如桶、 筒). =>illus at barrel 見barrel之插圖.
3 = ear-drum (ear).
4 (idm 習語) beat the drum => beat1.
drum v (-mm-)
1 [I] play a drum or drums 打鼓; 敲鼓; 擊鼓.
2 [Ipr, Tn, Tn.pr]
~ (sth) on sth make a drum-like sound on sth; tap or beat (sth) continuously (在某物上敲打)發出似鼓之聲; 不停敲打(某物)
drum on the table with one's fingers 用手指在桌上敲出鼓點聲
drum one's feet on the floor 跺腳.
3 (phr v) drum sth into sb/into sb's head make sb remember sth by repeating it often 經常重復某事使某人記住
Our teacher used to drum our multiplication tables into us. 我們老師過去老是讓我們反覆背誦乘法表. drum sb out (of sth) force sb to leave a group, an organization, etc, often in disgrace 迫使某人脫離(團體、 組織等)(常為不名譽地)
drummed out of the club, the regiment 被逐出俱樂部、 團體. drum sth up try hard to get (support, customers, etc) 大力爭取(支持、 顧客等)
He's going round firms drumming up interest in the project. 他到各公司游說以引起大家對該項目的興趣.