• vt. 使兴旺；发隆隆声
• vi. 急速发展；发隆隆声
• n. 繁荣；吊杆；隆隆声
• n. (Boom)人名；(法、德)博姆

拟声词。

boom

boom: see beam

boom (v.)

mid-15c., earliest use was for bees and wasps, probably echoic of humming. The meaning "make a loud noise" is 15c. Compare bomb. Meaning "to burst into prosperity" (of places, businesses, etc.) is 1871, American English. Related: Boomed; booming. Boom box first attested 1978.

boom (n.1)

"long pole," 1540s, from Scottish boun, borrowed from Dutch boom "tree, pole, beam," from a Middle Dutch word analogous to Old English beam (see beam (n.)).

boom (n.2)

in the business sense, 1873, sometimes said to be from boom (n.1), from the nautical meaning "a long spar run out to extend the foot of a sail" -- a ship "booming" being one in full sail. But it could just as well be from boom (v.) on the notion of "suddenness."

1. The boom of the 1980s led to a taste for petrol-guzzling cars.

20世纪80年代的经济繁荣使人们喜欢上高油耗的汽车。

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2. The stillness of night was broken by the boom of a cannon.

夜晚的寂静被隆隆的炮声打破。

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3. This boom has been engineered by the Chancellor for short-term political reasons.

这片繁荣景象是总理为了短期政治利益而精心安排的。

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4. Brisbane has become the boom town for Australian film and television.

布里斯班由于澳大利亚电影和电视业的发展而迅速变成了一个繁荣的都市。

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5. U.S. manufacturers may find the export boom stopping dead in its tracks.

美国制造商将会发现出口热戛然而止。

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