英语单词 | abuzz |
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英美音标 | [ə'bʌz] |
中文释义 | adj.嗡嗡的,嘁嘁喳喳的,活泼的 |
vocab简明 | If a room is abuzz, it's full of noise and chatter. An elementary school classroom is bound to be abuzz on the last day of school before summer. |
vocab扩展 | When a place is abuzz, it's bustling with activity and sounds, humming in a way that resembles the buzzing of bees. The whole town might be abuzz with excitement about a movie being filmed there, or your house could be abuzz with excited children during a birthday party. Charles Dickens is credited with the first written use of this adjective, in his 1859 novel "A Tale of Two Cities." |
真题原句 | In a move that has intellectual-property lawyers abuzz, the U.S. court of Appeals for the federal circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents. |
柯林斯星级 | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]议论纷纷的;嘈杂的;闹哄哄的 If someone says that a place is abuzz with rumours or plans, they mean that everyone there is excited about them. [v-link ADJ] [JOURNALISM 新闻]
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来源 | 2010.2 |
Tags: 单词::2010
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