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thrum

/thruhm/US // θrʌm //UK // (θrʌm) //

悸动,激动人心,激动人心的事,颤动

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    thrummed, thrum·ming.

    • : to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
    • : to sound when thrummed on, as a guitar or similar stringed instrument.
    • : to drum or tap idly with the fingers.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    thrummed, thrum·ming.

    • : to play by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
    • : to drum or tap idly on.
    • : to recite or tell in a monotonous way.
n.名词 noun
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    • : an act or sound of thrumming; dull, monotonous sound.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Work can kill your soul, but the stories in this collection thrum with life.

  • They had not heard the thrum of the motors on the roadway outside.

  • Dee could thrum out an accompaniment, if it happened to be a very simple one with only one or two changes.

  • When he touches Rossetti's lute his melody is blurred by the thrum of the strings that the Italian's fingers have so lately left.

  • Stella looked and listened until there was but a faint thrum far up the lake.

  • Some thrum a musical instrument the livelong day, and, when they wake at night, proceed at once to their musical performance.