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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.
例句
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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VERB
用锤击;锤打
If you hammer an object such as a nail, you hit it with a hammer.
例句
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。
Builders were still hammering outside the window.
建筑工人仍在窗外敲敲打打。
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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.
例句
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。
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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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.
例句
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。
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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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.
例句
The report hammers the private motorist...
该报告严词谴责了那个私家车司机。
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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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.
例句
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。
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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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.
例句
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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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.
例句
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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（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.
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（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.
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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.
例句
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。
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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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.
例句
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。