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hum

/huhm/US // hʌm //UK // (hʌm) //

哼哼,幽默,嗡嗡声,哼唱

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v.无主动词 verb
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    hummed, hum·ming.

    • : to make a low, continuous, droning sound.
    • : to give forth an indistinct sound of mingled voices or noises.
    • : to utter an indistinct sound in hesitation, embarrassment, dissatisfaction, etc.; hem.
    • : to sing with closed lips, without articulating words.
    • : to be in a state of busy activity: The household hummed in preparation for the wedding.
    • : British Slang. to have a bad odor, as of stale perspiration.
v.有主动词 verb
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    hummed, hum·ming.

    • : to sound, sing, or utter by humming: to hum a tune.
    • : to bring, put, etc., by humming: to hum a child to sleep.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act or sound of humming; an inarticulate or indistinct murmur; hem.
    • : Audio. an unwanted low-frequency sound caused by power-line frequencies in any audio component.
interj.感叹词 interjection
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    Synonyms & Antonyms

    Examples

    • What once seemed so rare and arcane has now become a sad hum in the background — the contrails of an administration that the country may take a generation to shake.

    • Over the past four years, there has been a constant, low-level hum of rumors about the status of Apple’s automotive ambitions, with a major partnership announcement always supposedly just months or weeks away.

    • Think about the general din of being inside an airplane or hum of an air conditioning unit, with active noise cancellation all that disappears.

    • Those in charge of maintenance should have their tasks made easier by Health and Usage Monitoring Systems, or HUMS.

    • The hum is generated by the rapid jitters of particles that make up the hot object.

    • There was Carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe.

    • Lily Allen explained away the poor sales and ho-hum critical reception to Sheezus by…basically blaming other people.

    • His New York accent slices through the incessant hum of voices.

    • There was no shelling this time, but there was the hum of watchful drones.

    • The summer of music may have started with a ho-hum and largely stayed there.

    • The hum of earnest or glad voices here contrasted strongly with silence and meditation there.

    • The girl began to hum, as she powdered her nose with a white glove, lying in a powder box.

    • She fell to her task again, only now she began to hum softly, thus shutting me off entirely.

    • In a moment Skipper Worse was wide awake, and began to hum, as she moved her fingers along the lines.

    • Matt listened to the steady hum of the Comet's twin cylinders with an exultation he could not conceal.