jackhammer

Các nghĩa

1. dùng búa khoan

   To use a jackhammer.

   intransitive

   Early the next day a crew came to fix the street. Vernon was out there at once, watching them jackhammer and haul the asphalt […]

2. phá vỡ bằng búa khoan

   To break (something) using a jackhammer.

   transitive

   The foundations for the barrier had been jackhammered away; the piles of broken concrete were just left alongside the road.

   In the morning, the street is being jackhammered up.

3. tạo hình bằng búa khoan

   To form (something) using a jackhammer.

   transitive

   Small ledges had been jackhammered at each end of the crater and timbers bolted into them, forming abutments of the bridge that was to come.

   He was standing at a work table he’d jackhammered from a boulder, placidly sculpting a rose on its work surface.

4. chuyển động như búa khoan

   To move like a jackhammer.

   figuratively · intransitive

   […] a bolt of lightning jackhammered across the sky, interrupting his dream.

   When he jackhammered into her, she clutched the bedspread and braced herself for the onslaught.

   His left knee jackhammered under the desk, his right hand patted a steady bongo beat on the top.

5. đập mạnh, đập thình thịch

   To beat hard, to pound. (of the heart or pulse)

   figuratively · intransitive

   […] he lay rigid, his heart jackhammering, telling himself that there was nothing out there, nothing […]

6. di chuyển như búa khoan

   To move (something) like a jackhammer.

   figuratively · transitive

   Then, before the lumberjack had a chance to react, Dad grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and jackhammered his head into the bar.

Dạng khác

• jackhammers present, singular, third-person
• jackhammering participle, present
• jackhammered participle, past