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thumping

/thuhm-ping/US // ˈθʌm pɪŋ //UK // (ˈθʌmpɪŋ) //

怦然心动,咚咚咚,砰砰声,咚咚

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, like, or pertaining to a thump.
    • : strikingly great, immense, exceptional, or impressive; resounding: a thumping victory at the polls.

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Examples

  • Mitchell put together a memorable March Madness for the Baylor Bears that culminated in a thumping of Kispert’s Bulldogs.

  • Last year, the team’s Turkey Day thumping of the Cowboys sparked a December run to capture the NFC East crown, but this season, it gets the Monday night slot after the holiday against Seattle.

  • The margin was almost identical to last month’s 41-24 loss at Alabama and a bit better than last year’s 37-10 thumping at the hands of LSU in the SEC title game.

  • Bible-thumping Louisiana Sen. David Vitter was outed as a john for the “D.C. Madam” in 2007.

  • There was a time when the bigoted, Bible-thumping crowd ran roughshod over D.C. Now, not so much.

  • I also wanted to ask you about the chest-thumping scene in The Wolf of Wall Street.

  • His “bible thumping” takes him away from Portland often, to cities as far as D.C. and New Orleans.

  • These day he engages the political world with tub-thumping opinion columns in the Spanish daily El Pais.

  • She paused for a fraction of a second, while his heart went thumping against his ribs.

  • Oh, the wildness of that sound—and the thumping of the heart of the hunter, and the breathless suspense, and the burning desire.

  • And my heart began thumping until I feared its beating would be audible at a distance.

  • But the least thinking of him sufficed to set her heart to thumping again; and so she shrunk from that train of thought.

  • The men were all at their dinner, when I heard the boat thumping under the main channels.