hammering

noun

1. （锤子或拳头的）敲打声，捶打声
   the sound of sb hitting sth with a hammer or with their fists
   1. the sound of hammering from the next room
      隔壁传来的敲打声
2. 挫败；严厉批评
   an act of defeating or criticizing sb severely
   1. Our team took a real hammering in the first half.
      上半场我队吃了个大败仗。

1. N-COUNT 锤子;榔头
   A hammer is a tool that consists of a heavy piece of metal at the end of a handle. It is used, for example, to hit nails into a piece of wood or a wall, or to break things into pieces.
   1. He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
      他用榔头和凿子铲墙。
2. VERB 用锤击;锤打
   If you hammer an object such as a nail, you hit it with a hammer.
   1. 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。
   2. Builders were still hammering outside the window.
      建筑工人仍在窗外敲敲打打。
   3. Hammer in means the same as hammer .
      hammer in 同 hammer
   4. The workers kneel on the ground and hammer the small stones in.
      工人们跪在地上，将小石子锤进去。
3. VERB （反复）敲打
   If you hammer on a surface, you hit it several times in order to make a noise, or to emphasize something you are saying when you are angry.
   1. 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。
   2. A crowd of reporters was hammering on the door...
      一群记者正在砰砰地拍打着大门。
   3. He hammered his two clenched fists on the table.
      他双拳紧握，重重地捶着桌子。
4. VERB 强行灌输;反复强调
   If you hammer something such as an idea into people or you hammer at it, you keep repeating it forcefully so that it will have an effect on people.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
5. VERB 猛烈攻击;大力批评;严厉惩罚
   If you say that someone hammers another person, you mean that they attack, criticize, or punish the other person severely.
   1. The report hammers the private motorist...
      该报告严词谴责了那个私家车司机。
   2. 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。
6. V-PASSIVE （因税收政策变化、经济不景气等）使（企业）受到打击
   If you say that businesses are being hammered, you mean that they are being unfairly harmed, for example by a change in taxes or by bad economic conditions.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
7. VERB （在体育比赛中）使惨败，大败
   In sports, if you say that one player or team hammered another, you mean that the first player or team defeated the second completely and easily.
   1. 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。
8. VERB （通常指因恐惧而心脏）快速跳动
   If someone's heart is hammering, it is beating very fast, usually because they are frightened.
   1. 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。
9. （机械设备中的）锤状物;（枪上的）击铁;(钢琴的）音槌
   In machines and instruments, a hammer is a part that hits another part. For example, in a gun the hammer causes the explosion which makes the bullet shoot out of it, and in a piano the hammers hit the strings and cause the sounds.
10. N-COUNT （田径运动中所掷的）链球
    In athletics, a hammer is a heavy weight on a piece of wire, which the athlete throws as far as possible.
    1. The hammer also refers to the sport of throwing the hammer.
       掷链球运动
    2. Events like the hammer and the discus are not traditional crowd-pullers in the West.
       掷链球和铁饼等在西方算不上传统的受欢迎项目。
11. PHRASE 满腔热情地;劲头十足地
    If you say that someone was going at something hammer and tongs, you mean that they were doing it with great enthusiasm or energy.
    1. 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。
    2. 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。
12. PHRASE 被拍卖
    If you say that something goes, comes, or is under the hammer, you mean that it is going to be sold at an auction.
    1. 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。

1. Builders were still hammering outside the window.
   建筑工人仍在窗外敲敲打打。
2. A crowd of reporters was hammering on the door
   一群记者正在砰砰地拍打着大门。
3. 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。
4. Palmer kept hammering away at his report.
   帕尔默一直在埋头写报告。
5. Two bandits were hammering on the door of the hall.
   两个匪徒在砸会堂的门。
6. The professor is hammering at an economics problem.
   教授正在钻研一个经济学问题。
7. The blacksmith is hammering the red-hot metal.
   铁匠正在锤烧红的铁。
8. Those people next door have been hammering on the walls again.
   隔壁的那些人又敲打起墙壁来了。
9. So finally I went back into my apartment and got a hammer and starting hammering on his fingers.
   于是我又返回屋里，拿了只锤子出来敲他的手。
10. I wish they'd stop hammering.
    我希望他们停止敲打了。
11. I played my niece at chess and she gave me a right hammering.
    我同我侄女下国际象棋时，她把我打得落花流水。
12. The squeezing – demonstrated live – is done by four sturdy man hammering a wedge into the machinery.
    我现场看到了这个压榨过程，四个结实的大汉抬着一个大木楔子，猛力往一个机器里面锤。
13. I could hear him hammering away in the house next door.
    我可以听见他在隔壁屋子里不停地锤打东西。
14. The sound of hammering led me to the hut.
    我循着子声音走到了木屋。
15. We can flatten out a piece of metal by hammering it.
    我们可以用锤子把一块金属敲平。
16. It has function of hammering and electric heating ironing.
    鞋面锤平机鞋口锤平机具有锤打和电热烫平功能。
17. I heard him hammering away.
    我听到他不停敲打。
18. I can hear Mary hammering at the typewriter from my office.
    我在自己的办公室里就能听见玛丽用打字机打字的声音。
19. With hammering heart I admitted my identity.
    我承认了自己的身份，心怦怦直跳。
20. It was hard and tough, but he could shape it by hammering ( probably with heavy stones).
    它质地坚韧，但人可以把它打成各种形状（可能是用大石块锤打）。
21. Our team took a real hammering in the first half.
    上半场我队吃了个大败仗。
22. Someone was hammering in the cellar.
    有人在地下室里拿锤子敲打。
23. Hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea.
    听到街边传来的铁锤声，鲁本有了主意。
24. He could feel the hammering of his heart and he knew that his hands were trembling.
    他能感觉到啄他的心和他知道，他的双手颤抖着。
25. I know I made a mistake. I just wish he wouldn't keep hammering away at it.
    我晓得我犯错误了。我真但愿他不要不断骂个一直。
26. For example, the diameter of a bar can be increased by heating and hammering axially.
    例如，棒料的直径可以通过加热和轴向锤击而增大。
27. While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat;
    我在铁踮上打黄铜时，你在垫子上睡觉；
28. The weather is hammering Daqing and Harbin, and Suihua will be hit by the sand storm later.
    这种天气袭击了大庆和哈尔滨，沙尘暴随后将袭击绥化。
29. You should have seen the hammering I gave her in the second game.
    你肯定看到在第二次比赛中我击溃了她。
30. I hope that you don't mind my hammering this nail though.
    我希望你不要介意我敲钉子的声音。

noun

1. the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
   1. the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard
   2. the pounding of feet on the hallway

   Synonym:    hammerpoundpounding