• vt. 擊鼓；大力爭取
• vi. 擊鼓；大力爭取
• n. 鼓；鼓聲
• n. (Drum)人名；(英)德拉姆；(德)德魯姆

擬聲詞，模仿敲鼓的聲音。

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.

1. As he sang he kept time on a small drum.

他邊唱邊和著節(jié)拍敲一個小鼓。

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

貿(mào)易部長并不同意，但是答應(yīng)會“為產(chǎn)業(yè)界搖旗吶喊”。

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3. The drum is one of the oldest musical instruments.

鼓是最古老的樂器之一。

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4. We've leafleted the university today to try to drum up some support.

我們今天在大學(xué)散發(fā)了傳單，希望能爭取到支持。

來自柯林斯例句

5. The new government seemed rather hum-drum.

新政府看起來平庸無能。

來自柯林斯例句