booms

英 [buːmz]

美 [buːmz]

n.  (贸易和经济活动的)激增，繁荣; (某种体育运动、音乐等)突然风靡的时期; 帆桁
v.  轰鸣; 轰响; 以低沉有力的声音说; 迅速发展; 激增; 繁荣昌盛
boom的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （经济的）繁荣，景气
  If there is aboomin the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold.
  1. An economic boom followed, especially in housing and construction...
     接着出现了经济繁荣，尤其是在房地产业和建筑业。
  2. The 1980s were indeed boom years.
     20世纪80年代是真正的繁荣时期。
  3. ...the cycle of boom and bust which has damaged us for 40 years.
     40年来给我们造成巨大破坏的经济繁荣与萧条的交替循环
• N-COUNT （数量的）增长；（频率的）加快；成功
  Aboom insomething is an increase in its amount, frequency, or success.
  1. The boom in the sport's popularity has meant more calls for stricter safety regulations...
     该项体育运动的兴起意味着制定更加严格的安全规则的呼声更高了。
  2. Public transport has not been able to cope adequately with the travel boom.
     公共交通系统还不能充分满足迅速发展的旅游业的需求。
• VERB （经济或生意）景气，繁荣
  If the economy or a businessis booming, the amount of things being bought or sold is increasing.
  1. By 1988 the economy was booming...
     到1988年经济一直很繁荣。
  2. Sales are booming...
     销售额在快速增长。
  3. It has a booming tourist industry.
     其旅游产业在蓬勃发展。
• （船帆的）下桁；帆桁
  On a boat,the boomis the long pole which is attached to the bottom of the sail and to the mast and which you move when you want to alter the direction in which you are sailing.
• 浮木挡栅，水栅（用来阻挡溢出的油扩散）
  Aboomis a large floating barrier that is used for stopping oil that has spilled from spreading.
• VERB （人)吼叫；（大炮或大鼓）发隆隆声
  When something such as someone's voice, a cannon, or a big drumbooms, it makes a loud, deep sound that lasts for several seconds.
  1. 'Ladies,' boomed Helena, without a microphone, 'we all know why we're here tonight.'...
     “女士们，”海伦娜大声喊道，没有用麦克风，“我们都知道今晚我们为什么来到这里。”
  2. Thunder boomed like battlefield cannons over Crooked Mountain.
     雷声像战场上的炮声一样响彻克鲁克德山。
  3. Boom outmeans the same asboom.
     boom out同boom
  4. Music boomed out from loudspeakers...
     喇叭中传出低沉的音乐声。
  5. A megaphone boomed out, 'This is the police.'
     …扩音器响了起来：“我们是警察。”
  6. He turned his sightless eyes their way and boomed out a greeting.
     他将失明的双眼转向他们，低声打了个招呼。
  7. Boomis also a noun.
     
  8. The stillness of night was broken by the boom of a cannon.
     夜晚的寂静被隆隆的炮声打破。
• → see:baby boom

双语例句

• As with all booms, urbanisation promises huge wealth.
  和所有的繁荣期一样，城市化预示着巨大的财富前景。
• From 2000 to 2008 the world went through one of the greatest commodity and credit booms of all times.
  2000至2008年，世界经历了历史上最大的一次大宗商品和信贷繁荣。
• The clock booms out nine.
  钟隆隆地敲了九下。
• The booms lead to overinvestment, reckless risk-taking and too much debt.
  繁荣导致过度投资、鲁莽的冒险行为和过度负债。
• This is the cycle of economic booms and slumps.
  这是经济繁荣和经济萧条的周期变化。
• The cyclical booms and busts that result damage the non-financial economy, and economic policy can counteract this.
  由此造成的周期性盛衰会损害非金融经济，而经济政策能对抗这种风险。
• Sonic booms can break windows.
  音爆可以震破窗户。
• Now the booms are over.
  现在，繁荣结束了。
• The end of the credit and housing booms ended in a once-in-a-century bust.
  信贷也和房地产业随着百年一遇的泡沫破裂而结束。
• But there are many others, because booms and busts seldom have a single trigger.
  但还有许多其他变数，因为繁荣和萧条鲜有单一触发因素的。