Clump
英 [klʌmp]
美 [klʌmp]
- n. 叢；笨重的腳步聲；土塊
- vi. 形成一叢；以沉重的步子行走
- vt. 使成一叢；使凝結成塊
助記提示
1. 靠攏鋪。把一些東西攏在一起，使其靠攏鋪在一起——團，塊；
2. 磕啷步。想象用力走路的聲音——沉重的腳步聲。
3. c + lump => 很像雙臂抱著一塊一塊、一團一團的東西，形成叢、簇。
4. club => clump.
中文詞源
英文詞源
- clump (n.)
- 1580s, "lump; cluster of trees," from Middle English clompe "a lump" (c. 1300), from Dutch klomp "lump, mass," or Middle Low German klumpe "clog, wooden shoe." Old English had clympre "lump, mass of metal."
- clump (v.2)
- "walk heavily," 1660s, imitative. Related: Clumped; clumping.
- clump (v.1)
- "to heap or gather in clumps" (transitive), 1824, from clump (n.). Related: Clumped; clumping. Intransitive sense "to form a clump or clumps" is recorded from 1896.
雙語例句
- 1. The spade sank into a clump of overgrown bushes.
- 鏟子插入了一叢長勢旺盛的灌木叢。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Brown rice takes longer to cook but it doesn't clump together as easily as white rice.
- 糙米不容易熟，但不會像精米那樣容易粘在一起。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. That clump down near the bottom.
- 靠坑底那簇.
來自英漢文學
- 4. Exasperated, he leaped the stream, and strode towards beech clump.
- 他滿腔惱怒, 跳過小河, 大踏步向毛櫸林子走去.
來自辭典例句
- 5. A stream meandered gently through a clump of trees.
- 一條小溪從樹叢中蜿蜒穿過.
來自辭典例句