buzz
英 [b?z]
美[b?z]
- vt. 使嗡嗡叫；暗中散布
- vi. 作嗡嗡聲；東奔西忙
- n. 嗡嗡聲
- n. (Buzz)人名；(英)巴茲
CET6TEM4IELTSTOEFL中低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?buzzes;第三人稱單數:?buzzes;過去式:?buzzed;過去分詞:?buzzed;現在分詞:?buzzing;
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中文詞源
buzz 嗡嗡叫
擬聲詞。
英文詞源
- buzz (v.)
- late 15c., echoic of bees and other insects. Aviation sense of "fly low and close" is by 1941 (see buzz (n.)). Related: Buzzed; buzzing. Buzz off (1914) originally meant "to ring off on the telephone," from the use of buzzers to signal a call or message on old systems. As a command, it originally would have been telling someone to get off the line.
- buzz (n.)
- "a busy rumour" [Rowe], 1620s (earlier "a fancy," c. 1600), figurative use from buzz (v.). Literal sense of "humming sound" is from 1640s. A "buzz" was the characteristic sound of an airplane in early 20c.; hence verbal sense "to fly swiftly," by 1928; by 1940 especially in military use, "to fly low over a surface as a warning signal" (for example that target practice is about to begin):
The patrol aircraft shall employ the method of warning known as "buzzing" which consists of low flight by the airplane and repeated opening and closing of the throttle. [1941 Supplement to the Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America," Chap. II, Corps of Engineers, War Department, p. 3434, etc. ]
Meaning "pleasant sense of intoxication" first recorded 1935. The children's game of counting off with 7 or multiples of it replaced by buzz is attested from 1864 and is mentioned in "Little Women" (1868). To give (someone) a buzz (by 1922) is from the buzz that announced a call on old telephone systems.
雙語例句
- 1. Hundreds of flies buzz around us, and the workman keeps swatting them.
- 數百只蒼蠅圍著我們轉，工作人員不停地拍打。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. And I'll buzz over to talk some sense into old Ocker.
- 我會不厭其煩地給那個固執己見的澳大利亞老頭講道理。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. We'll give him a buzz when we get to Maybury Street.
- 我們到了梅貝里街的時候會給他打電話.
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. "There's no buzz, there's no oomph about the place," he complained.
- “這地方沒有人氣，沒有活力?！彼г沟?。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Sex education in schools was the buzz topic.
- 性教育在學校是個熱議話題。
來自柯林斯例句