hammer

• vi. 锤击；敲打；重复
• n. 铁锤；链球；[解剖] 锤骨；音锤
• vt. 锤击；锤打
• n. (Hammer)人名；(法)阿梅；(德、英、芬、捷、瑞典、荷、丹、挪)哈默

来自中古英语hamer,锤子，来自PIE*ekmo,石头，来自PIE*ak,尖的，锋利的，词源同acid,cone,cuneiform.拼写比较humor.

1. the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

2. a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

3. an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible

4. the ossicle attached to the eardrum

5. a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

6. a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

7. a power tool for drilling rocks

8. the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows);

"the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"

"the pounding of feet on the hallway"

hammer

hammer: [OE] Hammer is part of a widespread Germanic word-family, including also German and Danish hammer, Dutch hamer, and Swedish hammar. The ancestor of the Scandinavian forms, Old Norse hamarr, meant ‘stone crag’ as well as ‘hammer’. This and possible connections with the standard words for ‘stone, rock’ in the Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavonic language groups (such as Sanskrit açman and Russian kamen’) suggest that hammer originally denoted some sort of tool with a stone head.

hammer (n.)

Old English hamor "hammer," from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (cognates: Old Saxon hamur, Middle Dutch, Dutch hamer, Old High German hamar, German Hammer). The Old Norse cognate hamarr meant "stone, crag" (it's common in English place names), and suggests an original sense of the Germanic words as "tool with a stone head," which would describe the first hammers. The Germanic words thus could be from a PIE *ka-mer-, with reversal of initial sounds, from PIE *akmen "stone, sharp stone used as a tool" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic kamy, Russian kameni "stone"), from root *ak- "sharp" (see acme).

As a part of a firearm, 1580s; as a part of a piano, 1774; as a small bone of the ear, 1610s. Figurative use of "aggressive and destructive foe" is late 14c., from similar use of French martel, Latin malleus. To go at it hammer and tongs "with great violence and vigor" (1708) is an image from blacksmithing (the tongs hold the metal and the hammer beats it). Hammer and sickle as an emblem of Soviet communism attested from 1921, symbolizing industrial and agricultural labor.

hammer (v.)

late 14c., "deal blows with a hammer or axe;" mid-15c., "to produce (something) by blows with a hammer," from hammer (n.). Also sometimes in Middle English the verb to describe how Christ was crucified. Figurative meaning "work (something) out laboriously" recorded from 1580s. Meaning "beat or drive with or as if with a hammer" is from 1640s; that of "to defeat heavily" is from 1948. Old English had hamorian "to beat out, forge." Related: Hammered; hammering.

Crist, as he was ruthfully hamerd apon the croce, Songe to his fadire of heven.
["The Mirror of Man's Salvation," 15c.]

to hammer out a compromise

反复讨论达成妥协

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Our team was hammered 5-1.

我队以1:5的悬殊比分败北。

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He hammered the ball into the net.

他一记猛射，将球踢进网。

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He hammered the door with his fists.

他不断地用拳头擂门。

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(figurative)I was so scared my heart was hammering (= beating very fast) in my chest.

我吓得心里怦怦直跳。

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Hail was hammering down onto the roof.

冰雹砸得屋顶咚咚响。

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Someone was hammering at the door.

有人在砰砰地打门。

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He was hammering the sheet of copper flat.

他正把铜片锤平。

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She hammered the nail into the wall.

她把钉子钉到墙上。

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I could hear somebody hammering next door.

我能听到隔壁有人在锤打东西。

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to come/go under the hammer (= to be sold at auction )

被拍卖

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(figurative)The decision is a hammer blow for the steel industry.

这一决定对于钢铁业是一个沉重的打击。

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Ian Fleming's original unpublished notes are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby's.

伊恩·弗莱明未出版的原版笔记将在伦敦的苏富比拍卖行进行拍卖。

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They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.

他们又叫又喊又吵，每晚都要乐此不疲地闹腾6个小时。

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He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work...

他酷爱侍弄花草。只要下班一回到家，他就兴冲冲地忙活起来。

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My heart was hammering. The footsteps had stopped outside my door.

我的心怦怦直跳。脚步声已停在我的门外。

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He hammered the young Austrian player in four straight sets.

他直落4局轻取年轻的奥地利对手。

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The company has been hammered by the downturn in the construction and motor industries.

公司因建筑和汽车行业的衰退而受到了冲击。

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Look at the numbers of small businesses that are being hammered unmercifully...

看看有多少小企业正在遭受无情的打击。

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If we turned up late we would be hammered by everybody.

如果我们迟到，就会遭到大家的声讨。

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The report hammers the private motorist...

该报告严词谴责了那个私家车司机。

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Recent advertising campaigns from the industry have hammered at these themes.

该行业最近的广告宣传活动一直在反复强调这些主题。

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He hammered it into me that I had not suddenly become a rotten goalkeeper...

他反复告诉我，我并没有一下子变成个差劲的守门员。

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A crowd of reporters was hammering on the door...

一群记者正在砰砰地拍打着大门。

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We had to hammer and shout before they would open up...

我们不停地拍门、叫喊，他们才开了门。

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Builders were still hammering outside the window.

建筑工人仍在窗外敲敲打打。

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To avoid damaging the tree, hammer a wooden peg into the hole...

为了不毁坏树，用锤子将一个木栓钉进洞里。

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He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.

他用榔头和凿子铲墙。

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