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boom

/boom/US // bum //UK // (buːm) //

景气,暴涨,繁荣,轰轰烈烈

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.
    • : to move with a resounding rush or great impetus.
    • : to progress, grow, or flourish vigorously, as a business or a city: Her business is booming since she enlarged the store.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give forth with a booming sound: The clock boomed out nine.
    • : to boost; campaign for vigorously: His followers are booming George for mayor.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.
    • : the resonant cry of a bird or animal.
    • : a buzzing, humming, or droning, as of a bee or beetle.
    • : a rapid increase in price, development, numbers, etc.: a boom in housing construction.
    • : a period of rapid economic growth, prosperity, high wages and prices, and relatively full employment.
    • : a rise in popularity, as of a political candidate.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : caused by or characteristic of a boom: boom prices.

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Examples

  • Ironically, the business of edtech and digital learning has been booming.

  • These past months, as other industries struggle, Netflix has been booming.

  • Esports, an already booming industry, have taken on an even greater significance in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

  • As one publishing executive put it, specialist titles don’t see the same boom and bust cycel as general news publishers.

  • So even though they lost cross-border traffic, they’re seeing booms in domestic travel.

  • Turkey has had more than a decade of economic boom, and is now the sixth-most-visited tourist destination in the world.

  • “I was watching ‘Daniel The Tiger’ with my kid and I heard two shots like ‘boom-boom,’” he said.

  • But the dress was its own unapologetic sonic boom—and was immediately much-copied.

  • Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era.

  • The current energy and industrial boom, according to Siemens President Joe Kaeser, “is a once-in-a-lifetime moment.”

  • There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.

  • Boom” refers, of course, to the large amount of support which Cleveland obtained on his second election to the Presidency.

  • A church clock struck the hour of seven, its clangor intruding upon the silence only as a muffled boom.

  • It is a generally accepted axiom that a public man cannot afford to be modest in these go-ahead days of "boom."

  • And as I watched the canvas shake and heard it boom and flap I heartily welcomed it.