boom

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復數:?booms;第三人稱單數:?booms;過去式:?boomed;過去分詞:?boomed;現在分詞:?booming;

1. 一胎生了600 個MM， baby boom 嬰兒潮（二戰時期）， baby boomer（二戰時期出生的人）。

boom 激增

擬聲詞。

boom: boom: see beam
boom (v.): mid-15c., earliest use was for bees and wasps, probably echoic of humming. The meaning "make a loud noise" is 15c. Compare bomb. Meaning "to burst into prosperity" (of places, businesses, etc.) is 1871, American English. Related: Boomed; booming. Boom box first attested 1978.
boom (n.1): "long pole," 1540s, from Scottish boun, borrowed from Dutch boom "tree, pole, beam," from a Middle Dutch word analogous to Old English beam (see beam (n.)).
boom (n.2): in the business sense, 1873, sometimes said to be from boom (n.1), from the nautical meaning "a long spar run out to extend the foot of a sail" -- a ship "booming" being one in full sail. But it could just as well be from boom (v.) on the notion of "suddenness."

1. The boom of the 1980s led to a taste for petrol-guzzling cars.: 20世紀80年代的經濟繁榮使人們喜歡上高油耗的汽車。

2. The stillness of night was broken by the boom of a cannon.: 夜晚的寂靜被隆隆的炮聲打破。

3. This boom has been engineered by the Chancellor for short-term political reasons.: 這片繁榮景象是總理為了短期政治利益而精心安排的。

4. Brisbane has become the boom town for Australian film and television.: 布里斯班由于澳大利亞電影和電視業的發展而迅速變成了一個繁榮的都市。

5. U.S. manufacturers may find the export boom stopping dead in its tracks.: 美國制造商將會發現出口熱戛然而止。