1. 1(心跳)撲通撲通的;(聲音)咚咚的重擊聲;(口語,英式)壓倒性的

    This word describes a heavy, heartbeat-like sound or feeling - your heart is 'thumping' when it beats hard and fast, often from fear, excitement, or exercise. It can also describe any loud, heavy, repeated banging sound, like someone 'thumping' on a door. , especially in British English, 'a thumping win' or 'a thumping majority' means a very big, decisive one.

core核心畫面

組成thump + ing. 'Thump' is the base word for a heavy dull sound or hit; '-ing' describes it happening now, or turns it into a describing word.

同家族的字

  • thumpthe base word this comes from

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

thumpingadj/ˈθʌmpɪŋ/

  • 1

    informalExceptional in some degree.

thumpingadv/ˈθʌmpɪŋ/

  • 1

    informalExceptionally. Very.

    • A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.

thumpingnoun/ˈθʌmpɪŋ/

  • 1

    A dull, heavy sound.

    • They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade[.]
    • There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
  • 2

    A beating.

    • He received a thumping from the school bully.
    • And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
  • 3

    hobbieslifestylesportsA heavy defeat.

    • Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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