[in sing.]a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise 喧闹声,喧嚣声 the fans made an awful din. 那些风扇发出讨厌的噪音。
(dinned, dinning)
[with obj.](be dinned into)(of a fact) be instilled in (someone) by constant repetition 对(某人)不停唠叨;反复叮嘱 a runner-up, he dinned into them, was a loser. 他不停地对他们说,亚军就是失败者。
[no obj.]make a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise 发出喧闹声,发出喧嚣声 the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing. 在我耳边响个不停的是电话铃声。
语源
Old English dyne, dynn (noun), dynian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tuni (noun) and Old Norse dynr (noun), dynja 'come rumbling down'