1no object, with adverbial of direction (of a bullet or other projectile) rebound off a surface.

一颗子弹从旁边墙上弹跳回来。

1. 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Cause to rebound off a surface.
   使跳飞，使弹跳
   they fired off a couple of rounds, ricocheting the bullets against a wall

   他们射出几发子弹，让子弹从墙壁上弹跳回来。

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   • From what Fai could see it looked as if James was trying to ricochet the ball against the wall and into a corner pocket.
   • But Mr Foster suddenly crashed through the door, ricocheting the flyscreen against wall, and wrenching the boy from her arms.
   • The wizard of Wishaw was not to be denied, however, conjuring a remarkable - and intentional - shot in which he ricocheted one red off another and into the top corner.
   • Cal stopped to swallow back the familiar burst of palpitations that ricocheted a steady duh-pa-dum against the straining walls of his over-stretched chest.
   • The resulting tracks ricocheted their sound in woozy, rubbery, Carl Stalling-esque patterns.
   • MEMs use tiny reflective surfaces to redirect light beams to a desired port by either ricocheting the light off neighboring reflective surfaces or steering the light beam directly to a port.
   • It was scripted by Johnny Speight when this red-brick apartment block just off the Bayswater Road was a real fun factory and Ray Galton and Alan Simpson also ricocheted one-liners round a rented room.
   • What's more likely to shake your equilibrium is that the room is covered in hard, reflective surfaces that ricochet sound.
   • I ricochet my eyes between her and Hubba Hubba Boy.
   • It cracked against my skull, ricocheting me into some decrepit shelving holding water damaged pornography, destroying it in a jumble of splinters and dust.
   • Leadoff man Fernando Vina ricocheted a single off first base.
   • The design of these things are to fire out of these things down at the ground, to ricochet them off the ground and to hit people in the legs to cause them to disperse.
   • These last for about 30 seconds or so, and will ricochet enemy fire right back at their senders.
   • It had actually been so long since I'd had a real shower, that I accidentally ricocheted the bar of soap around the small shower.
2. 1.2 Appear to move with a series of ricochets.
   〈喻〉弹跳移动；弹跳似的移动
   the sound ricocheted around the hall

   声音在大厅里回荡。

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   • I couldn't hear anything except our screams, which ricocheted off the houses and sounded in my ears.
   • Cold water is what keeps the Gulf Stream moving up the Atlantic coast and northeastward after it ricochets off the shoals under Cape Hatteras.
   • The heat was ricocheting round the Sport Hall and the home crowd was blasting out encouragement to Marino Columbu the Sardinian star wrestler.
   • Something appeared to be ricocheting inside the pipe, but what could it be?
   • A door thudded against the concrete walls and the sound ricocheted down to my ears.
   • They could hear their cries ricocheting off the trees and appearing to come out of the soil itself, filling their ears with the beautiful song that made the company's spine tingle.
   • The theme for Michael Caine's gangster film Get Carter, written at the age of 23, lays ricocheting trains, chilling harpsichord and funky tablas over a swaggering bass line.
   • Tibetans were sacrificed by Nehru in 1954 in return for Beijing's hand of friendship, a move that ricocheted in 1962.
   • That was all she had time to say, for in the next moment, a loud sound ricocheted throughout the entire hall and she watched in horror as the roof fell towards her.
   • In some of the open squares of Cuzco, ricocheting lines seem to lead from box to box, while in others the arrangement of lines is a little sharper, denser and more closed, like an outlined star.
   • The sound ricochets off the walls, and across the wooden floor.
   • Both sounds ricochet continuously off the shadowed and soot-covered brick walls.
   • Yet, no matter how quiet your voice was, it still echoed around the temple, the sounds ricocheting off the spherical chamber's walls.
   • And tragically for the series, it ricocheted back too far in the other direction and delivered an insanely difficult multi-stage nightmare.
   • Bouncing her lines off the walls of the theatre whilst we amazedly watch them ricochet, this actress, whose gestures appear to be based on the erotic friezes of Indian temples, is something else.
   • The playstation gunshot sounds were ricochetting off the walls and embedding themselves directly into the noise control centre of my brain.
   • Changes in light from the time of day and local weather tint the boxes as they dematerialize in ricocheting reflections.
   • Yes, it's a lot of short-wave radio signals, data transmissions, signals ricocheting around in the stratosphere, as well as the sounds of an analog synthesizer.

1A shot or hit that rebounds off a surface.

1. 1.1mass noun The action or movement of a bullet or other projectile when ricocheting.
   （子弹、炮弹等的）跳飞
   the practice of low-level skip bombing relied on ricochet for effect

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   • A day later, on ‘The McLaughlin Group,’ rhetorical ricochet was well underway.
   • Designed to be highly effective while reducing the danger from over-penetration or ricochet, the projectile is designed to totally fragment into fine particles upon impact.
   • It breaks up instantly and completely on impact, with no ricochet or lead accumulation.
   • Fights broke out Saturday and Sunday among about 100 Iraqis and drew several shotgun blasts, damaging several cars and a shop and leaving four people with minor ricochet wounds.
   • Weapon effects are distinct for each armament, and there's an impressive array of different ricochet sounds, dependant on the surface type you fire at.
   • There were times during the opening period when the Ibrox pitch was ricochet central, the ball bouncing off legs, chests and backs as the encounter degenerated into a messy, unstructured affair.
   • The reduced over-penetration and reduced ricochet characteristics of these rounds are nothing short of revolutionary.
   • One point of concern is that there are no ricochet effects, which is a little unusual when you consider the less than absorbent nature of the Plaza's interior.
   • The practice of low-level skip bombing, particularly employed in attacks on shipping during WW II, relied upon ricochet for its effect.
   • No, Galan patiently explained to the jury, it was universally used by police because it was safer to the public in terms of reduced ricochet and over-penetration.
   • They would satisfactorily bust a clay pipe or knock over a duck without the risk of ricochet.
   • The city would pay for the electricity, and ricochet would provide the pole-tops.
   • Having admitted the possibility of claims for psychiatric injury by such ricochet victims, the courts faced the problem of determining how wide the scope of liability should be drawn.
   • While some of the action in the low end has been enhanced, the surround effects consist mostly of the same ricochet noise inserted willy-nilly into the action scenes.
   • The probability of ricochet decreases as the impact angle increases.