humps

英 [hʌmps]

美 [hʌmps]

n.  (平面上的)大隆起物; (尤指)土墩，丘，冈; (某些动物的)峰; (尤指)驼峰; (人的)驼背
v.  背负(重物); 与(某人)性交
hump的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 小山;小丘;冈
  Ahumpis a small hill or raised area.
  1. The path goes over a large hump by a tree before running near a road.
     小道越过一处傍树的大圆丘，然后沿着一条大路向前延伸。
• N-COUNT （驼）峰
  A camel'shumpis the large lump on its back.
  1. Camels rebuild fat stores in their hump.
     骆驼在自己的驼峰内重新贮备了脂肪。
• （通常指人因疾病或年老形成的）驼背
  Ahumpis a large lump on a person's back, usually caused by illness or old age.
• VERB （费劲地）背负，搬运（重物）
  If youhumpsomething heavy, you carry it from one place to another with great difficulty.
  1. Charlie humped his rucksack up the stairs to his flat.
     查利费力地将背包背到楼上自己的公寓里。
• 与…性交
  Tohumpsomeone means to have sex with them.
• PHRASE 生气;郁闷;恼怒
  If someonegets the hump, they get very annoyed about something.
  1. Fans just get the hump when they lose.
     如果他们输了，球迷便会很恼火。
• PHRASE 已渡过难关;已克服困难;已解决麻烦
  If you say that you areover the hump, you mean that you no longer have a problem or difficulty that was stopping you being successful or happy.
  1. We're basically over the hump. We've got an economy that's likely to grow next year even more than it did in 1992.
     我们基本上渡过了难关。我们明年的经济增长速度甚至可能会超过1992年。

双语例句

• It's living on its hump now, like the camel, and even the largest of humps aren't inexhaustible. The peak consumption of evapotranspiration of winter wheat is after turing green, particularly heading to milk stage.
  它现在像一匹骆驼，靠它的驼峰维持生命，可是连最大的驼峰也有消耗干净的一天呢。表明，冬小麦的蒸发蒸腾耗水高峰在返青后，尤其是抽穗&灌浆期；
• 20 Camels have the opposite problem: Living in hot climates, they want as little heat-trapping insulation as possible, so they concentrate their fat in their humps.
  20.但骆驼却恰恰相反：沙漠气候下，保暖的脂肪越少越好。所以，骆驼的脂肪全都集中在了驼峰上。
• As speed-control humps effectively used, they bring side effects on pavements, vehicles and car owners.
  但是减速带在控制车速的同时，也对路面，车辆，车主带来了不利影响。
• Like many other municipalities, Philadelphia has tried a variety of devices to slow drivers: real speed humps, traffic circles, curb extensions, rumble strips, slightly raised crosswalks.
  象其它许多城市一样，费城尝试过很多设备让车手减速，用过真正的减速带，交通圈，控制带，橡胶条，略微提升的行人过道。
• The flattened, extended frequency response obviously changes the tonal character by removing "humps" in the output stage response and producing more high and low end frequencies.
  为平地，扩展频率响应明显改变音调特征，消除“拱”在输出级的反应和生产更多的高，低端的频率。
• No, aboriginals have poor parodies of eofol or Nighon horses, with humps on their backs.
  不，土著马只是拱着背，是伊欧弗和尼贡马匹的拙劣模仿。
• Why do camels have humps?
  骆驼为什么有驼峰？
• And the humps moved and swelled till they burst, and the crumbled earth poured out of them, and from each hump there came out an animal.
  这些圆丘移动着，膨胀着，直到泥土四溅地炸开后，每个圆丘里都钻出一样动物。
• Actually, camels store water in small bags that line the insides of their stomachs, and stores fat in their humps!
  骆驼将水储藏在胃中的水囊里，而在驼峰里贮藏脂肪。
• People used to think that camels store water in their humps, but this is incorrect.
  人们经常认为骆驼将水储藏在它们的驼峰里。事实上，这种看法是错误的。