hump

hump
noun
  1. a rounded protuberance found on the back of a camel or other animal or as an abnormality on a person's back
    驼峰；（人或动物背部的）隆肉，驼背
    ■a rounded raised mass of earth or land
    小圆丘，岗
    ■a mound over which railway vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity over points to the required place in a marshalling yard
    （铁路调车场里使车辆依靠重力滑到规定地方的）驼峰
verb
  1. [with obj. and adverbial of direction](informal)lift or carry (a heavy object) with difficulty
    (非正式)背；扛；搬运（重物）
    he continued to hump cases up and down the hotel corridor.
    他一直在旅馆走廊上下搬运箱子。
  2. [with obj.]make hump-shaped
    成隆起
  3. [no obj.](vulgar slang)have sexual intercourse
    (粗俚)性交
常用词组
get (或have) the hump
  1. (Brit. informal)become or be annoyed or irritated
    (英，非正式)生气，恼火
over the hump
  1. over the worst or most difficult part of something
    已度过最糟糕（或最困难）的阶段
派生
humped
adjective
  1. a humped back.
    驼背。
humpless
adjective
humpy
( humpier, humpiest)
adjective(humpier, humpiest)
语源
  1. early 18th cent.: probably related to Low German humpe 'hump', also to Dutch homp, Low German humpe 'lump, hunk (of bread')
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