Drum

(noun.) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise.

(noun.) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end.

(noun.) a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids.

(noun.) the sound of a drum; 'he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes'.

(verb.) play a percussion instrument.

(verb.) make a rhythmic sound; 'Rain drummed against the windshield'; 'The drums beat all night'.

录入:尼科尔

• I got a drum and went over to the potato farm and sprinkled it on the vines with a pot. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Then 800 pulses of air will reach the ear each second, and the ear drum, being flexible, will respond and will vibrate at the same rate. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The fraction drum of the indicator could be driven in either direction, known as the advance and retrograde movements, and was divided and marked in eighths. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Near the center of the clearing, and not far from the drum, or altar, he commenced to dig. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Instead of the two small contact wheels, however, a projecting arm carried an iron pin or stylus, so arranged that its point would normally impinge upon the periphery of the drum. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The receiving instrument at the other end of the line was constructed upon much the same general lines as the transmitter, consisting of a metallic drum and reels for the paper tape. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As the din of the drum rose to almost deafening volume Kerchak sprang into the open space between the squatting males and the drummers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He also had earthenware drums across which skins were stretched; perhaps also he made drums by stretching skins over hollow tree stems. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The drums rolled, the guards saluted, and the old carriage drove away. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Grand shop-winders, trumpets, and drums; and here be we out of doors in all winds and weathers-- But you mistake me, pleaded Clym. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Till the war-drums throb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Each sheet of paper is laid by a boy on a web of tapes, by which it is carried round one paper cylinder, and then over and under two wooden drums to the other paper cylinder. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I came down to look for her, for when I sat by Gridley this afternoon, I seemed to hear the roll of the muffled drums. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Something drummed and clanged furiously in his ears; he could not tell if it were the blood in his veins, or the tick of the clock on the mantel. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The pink-faced clock drummed out another hour, and Gerty rose with a start. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He paused and drummed on his desk. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He glanced at the foolish pink-faced clock that was drumming out this hideous hour. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Outside the mist turned to rain and in a little while it was raining hard and we heard it drumming on the roof. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I heard him say to himself, stopping at the window in his walk, and drumming on the glass with his fingers. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Then suddenly came a low guggling, gargling sound, and a brisk drumming upon woodwork. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Nobody saw the poor girls drumming at the duets in private. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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