drum

• vt. 击鼓；大力争取
• vi. 击鼓；大力争取
• n. 鼓；鼓声
• n. (Drum)人名；(英)德拉姆；(德)德鲁姆

拟声词，模仿敲鼓的声音。

1. a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end

2. the sound of a drum;

"he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

3. a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

4. a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

5. a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

6. small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

drum

drum: [16] Belying the total lack of similarity between the instruments, drum, trumpet, and trombone seem to be closely related. Drum appears to be a shortening of a slightly earlier English word drumslade ‘drum, drummer’, which was borrowed from Low German trommelslag ‘drumbeat’. This was a compound noun formed from trommel ‘drum’ and slag ‘hit’ (related to English slay).

An alternative view is that English simply acquired the word from Middle Dutch tromme. Both these Germanic forms meant simply ‘drum’, but the picture becomes more complex with Middle High German tromme ‘drum’, for originally this had the sense ‘trumpet’, and what is more it had a variant form trumbe (its ancestor, Old High German trumpa, ultimate source of English trumpet and trombone, only meant ‘trumpet’).

So the picture that emerges is of a word that originally referred in a fairly undifferentiated way to any musical instrument that made a loud noise.
=> trombone, trumpet

drum (n.)

1540s, probably from Middle Dutch tromme "drum," common Germanic (compare German Trommel, Danish tromme, Swedish trumma), probably of imitative origin. Not common before 1570s. Slightly older, and more common at first, was drumslade, apparently from Dutch or Low German trommelslag. Machinery sense attested from 1740, from similarity of shape.

drum (v.)

1570s, from drum (n.). To drum (up) business, etc., is American English 1839, from the old way of drawing a crowd.

to play the drums

击鼓

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a regular drum beat

节奏均匀的击鼓声

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a 50 gallon drum

容积为50加仑的桶

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an oil drum

油桶

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The mixture flows to a revolving drum where the water is filtered out.

混合剂流过旋转着的滚筒时水分便从中滤出。

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Impatiently, he drummed his fingers on the table.

他不耐烦地用手指嗒嗒地敲击桌子。

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We had it drummed into us that we should never talk to strangers.

我们曾被反复叮嘱千万不要与陌生人讲话。

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He had flown to the north of the country to drum up support for the campaign.

他已乘飞机到国家的北方去努力争取对这一运动的支持。

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Tony Cox on drums

鼓手托尼·考克斯

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a bass drum

大鼓

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The trade secretary disagreed but promised to 'bang the drum for industry'.

贸易部长并不同意，但是答应会“为产业界摇旗呐喊”。

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Rain drummed on the roof of the car.

雨嘀嘀嗒嗒地敲打着车顶。

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...an oil drum.

油桶

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...a drum of chemical waste.

一桶化学废料

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He had found a drum of electric cable.

他发现了一卷电缆。

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He drummed his fingers on the leather top of his desk...

他用手指连续敲击他的皮革桌面。

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This is the product, it's injectable drum filler.

这是该产品, 它的鼓注射填充.

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A drum roll preceded the most dangerous part of the performance.

演出快进行到最惊险的部分时响起了咚咚的鼓声.

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Store in seal drum at dry place, usable life over 1 year.

产品密封包装后贮存于阴凉、干燥处, 贮存期一年.

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Press the device specification requires that control the liner thickness and drum the center distance.

按摆设表率请求把持好衬垫厚量和滚筒洋心距.

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Luo Yusheng is famous for storytelling in a Beijing dialect to drum accompaniment.

骆玉笙是京韵大鼓的名家.

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Then ask the students to fall down and up the beat of the drum.

让学生听著鼓声的节奏来倒地、起身.

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The beats of the drum were steady and slow.

鼓声平稳而缓慢.

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