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nounPlural bumsbʌmbəm North American informal 1A vagrant. 流浪汉,流浪乞丐 bums had been known to wander up to their door and ask for a sandwich Example sentencesExamples - He seemed frustrated and said, ‘I know I'm supposed to walk on the curb side, but in San Francisco all the bums are on the inside.’
- After the great stock market crash, all the rich gentleman were reduced to bums and hobos.
- You're not condemned to a life of rolling down the window and asking bums for directions.
- People called bums and derelicts in the 20s and 30s had some of the best-paying, most secure jobs in industrial America by the 50s and 60s.
- So we dressed up for Halloween as gypsies and bums and hobos (the latter two later known as The Homeless) and other stereotypical costumes.
- In response, he created Bowery Derelicts - a group of drunken bums, inspired by people he saw every day across from his apartment.
- For certified ski bums - or folks who want to look the part - we recommend the Primo Moc Gore-Tex by Merrell.
- Not that I've never seen Asian bums and drunks and beggars sprawled out on the street.
- The amount of sinister looking bums and wandering pedestrians was in shorter stock here, the sidewalks mostly filled by a few meandering tourists who had gotten an early start on their shopping.
- Chuckling with maniacal glee the old bum loosened the rope that held up his voluminous, beggared trousers.
- Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.
- The streets of the planet were lightly populated by a few wanderers and bums, some of them looking like they had never bathed once in their life.
- Friday was spent weaving through filth encrusted bums passed-out in the gutter, as I took a therapeutic tour of some of the wicked (yet pretty pouncy) shops in the Valley.
- Abroad, the cultural influence has been vast, from The Beachcombers' Relic, to rappers, bums and crooks the world over.
- Twice in the past week I've heard a commercial on the local ‘Urban’ station (don't ask) imploring people not to ignore bums and beggars on the street.
- If you think about it, living life as a bum, hobo, or a transient is pretty extreme.
- Often it seemed that little more than the kerchief I tied over my nose separated me from the alcohol-smelling bums with crumbs in their beards who bookended me, swooning to Albinoni.
- What do a down-and-out bum and a publishing house employee have in common?
- Only haggards, bums, and barflies wandered the streets this late.
- Even the gang members are perfect, sipping beers in their cheap, showy suits against a background teeming with transients and bums.
- Film makers Ray Laticia and Ty Beeson, both recent graduates of the California film schools, have marketed the video as a chance to see ‘drunk bums beating each other silly’.
Synonyms tramp, vagrant, vagabond, homeless person, derelict, down-and-out - 1.1 A lazy or worthless person.
懒汉,废物 你这忘恩负义的懒鬼。 Example sentencesExamples - Anzuko laughed, ‘And Kenji grew up to be a real lazy bum who couldn't even string a bow.’
- It's just the kind of inspired power-to-the-people sensibility that can rouse some good ol'-fashioned politicking - even after the fact, you lazy bums.
- Much to his surprise, dad is released early on Christmas Eve, but he's still a worthless bum.
- Buck didn't reply right away, he had always been called a loser, a misfit, or a bum.
- He knew that when he came downstairs at one o'clock his parents would call him a lazy bum and ask him how he could sleep so late.
- It having been the winter and me having been the lazy bum that I am, it's been awhile since I shaved my legs.
- Do you think Santa flew all the way here and left these presents so you can sleep in like lazy bums?
- This multi-talented filmmaker makes jacks-of-all-trades like Robert Rodriguez and Steven Soderbergh seem like lazy bums.
- Im such a lazy bum and I don't spell check the chapters.
- But he also has the whiners, loafers, jonesers, and all of the no-good lazy bums, male and female, without a work ethic opposing his every move.
- I make no apologies for being a lazy, unfocused bum who fritters away opportunities.
- Because you are the laziest, most good-for-nothing bums, collection of bums, I've seen in a long time.
- I would really like to thank each and every one of you personally, but I'm a lazy bum.
- His family and friends disown him as a wastrel and a bum.
- That I knew she wasn't the lazy bum she wanted everyone to think.
- If you are such a lazy, dishonest bum as to disagree with that basic premise, then we are not having a conversation about political economy.
- He opened his bedroom door and we all went in, then being the lazy bums we were, we slept half the day away.
- Although she had her own money, she wasn't going to support a lazy bum that had no job or career.
- So, if I had my way I'd dramatically alter the Labour Code, because the increased provision for annual leave is going to move us further along the road of breeding a lazy bunch of bums.
Synonyms idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, wastrel, drone, scrounger, cadger, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, laggard, slugabed, malingerer rogue, rascal, scoundrel, villain informal waster, loser, skiver, slacker, lazybones
2in combination A person who devotes a great deal of time to a specified activity. 迷恋某项活动者 滑雪迷。 Example sentencesExamples - Photographs taken by the Pigs on the Hill, a dedicated group of ski bums, show off the region's extreme backcountry trails and ski touring terrain.
- I mean, my dad is in his sixties, rides motorcycles and is still a ski bum.
- When he left school his mother bought him an old car and he took off to the Alps to become an international ski bum - a highly talented one.
- That, and the absence of crowds, has turned Monterosa into a cult destination for alpine ski bums.
- Telluride icon and professional ski bum Captain Jack Carey has long symbolized the quintessential adventurer in all of us.
- Serious ski bums will do anything - washing pots, cleaning toilets - if there is the promise of a free lift pass for the season in return.
- And now they're still ski bums, says somebody out there.
- Ski bums live in tents, car parks, bus stations, dog houses, whatever shelter than can find that can keep them skiing Fernie every day.
- Surfer was the comically subversive tale of a group of ski bums (the Slackers) visited by a mysterious stranger who skis magically and imparts mystical knowledge.
- There's an awkward friction between Miller, rollicking ski bum of the people, and the exclusivity of a place like the Yellowstone Club.
- All our group of climbing bums, world travelers, and NOLS instructors had in common was lack of experience - and keen interest in backcountry mountain skiing.
- It's heavy and warm, with a waterproof exterior, so it might be useful for gadget-toting ski bums, bicyclists, and hikers.
- So Laurie set out for Park City, UT, taught Spanish in an elementary school, and became a ski bum.
- I spent some time as an over educated ski bum and I traveled a lot before I settled down.
- Part of me wants to go back to Park City and be a ski bum.
- Today, however, closer to sea level, Burt looks pretty much like every other dirtbag ski bum in the area.
- Growling in from left is Warren Miller, the puckish godfather of extreme-ski cinema and our nation's original ski bum.
- A former ski bum, Balint, 64, has worked on Jackson Hole's legendary patrol for nearly a quarter century.
verbbums, bummed, bummingbʌmbəm informal 1usually bum aroundno object Travel with no particular purpose. he bummed around Florida for a few months 他在佛罗里达一带游玩了几个月。 Example sentencesExamples - Following graduation, he bummed around the world for four years.
- After college, Steve bummed around Europe on the Railpass junket for a few months.
- Thrown out of two schools, John eventually graduated and bummed around the world with the stated ambition of ‘becoming a beggar.’
- Upon graduating, she plans to defer college for a year and go abroad, not to study or even bum around Europe but to squat in an abandoned building in London, like a true punk.
- He was in the Australian Regular Army 1986-1994, bummed around the world for a couple of years, has finished his law degree and works as research assistant at a commercial firm.
- There's also Ian, a tutor who'd been previously bumming around Europe for years and now seduces the more attractive of the students to whom he teaches English.
- ‘He got cancer when I was spending a year in America just bumming around,’ says the actor.
- I mean, sure, I'd like a guy to bum around this wacky planet with, but it's no big deal.
- He spent 15 years bumming around Canada working on trucks, ships and at mines.
- I'm currently in Dublin just bumming around, sorting stuff out, but the clock is ticking.
- Sean Richardson in Sydney was in the Australian Regular Army 1986-1994, then bummed around the globe for a couple of years.
- They are a bunch of freeloading cretins dedicated to bumming around the villas of Europe and the Caribbean, pushing themselves onto unsuspecting hosts, eating them out of house and home, using up all their bog paper, then moving on.
- Over lunch with John M today the idea of bumming around the world came up.
- She's off to Spain for all of Feb, staying with friends and bumming around learning Spanish, and she's keeping her rented room on the go while she's away.
- Many years ago I spent the summer bumming around Greece.
- During the undergraduate years Paul had been working on building sites in Reading, saving up money to go to Australia and bum around for a year.
- A failed actor with a history of alcoholism, Treadwell bummed around California until, he claims, he awoke from a blackout to discover a bear looming over him.
- Find someone to watch the dog and there you are, bumming around the Continent with your buddy.
- People - most of whom, as far I can discover in conversation later, are Australians bumming around Europe on some gap year experience - pass to and fro.
- It took a phone call from Rewpert, who continues to excel at bumming around (he's in Wales), for me to realize why the B's refuse to talk to me while they're on vacation.
- Whether you're planning to flash your Florins in the salsa bars of Aruba, bum around the Andes on your Bolivianos, or simply eke out your Euros on the French Riviera, chances are you'll be needing some holiday money in the coming months.
Synonyms loaf, lounge, idle, laze, languish, moon, stooge, droop, dally, dawdle, amble, potter, wander, drift, meander informal mooch North American informal lollygag, bat - 1.1 Pass one's time idly.
闲荡,虚度光阴 students bumming around at university 在大学里混日子的学生。 Example sentencesExamples - Then I bummed around town for a while, having a really relaxing time drinking cold drinks and watching the people, and enjoying just sitting back and actually being in Canberra again.
- Saturday I awoke at the crack of noon, bummed around the coffee shop for a couple hours, and then went to a friend's house to help him install a satellite dish…
- Today I had off, so I did some brief work in my office, then bummed around the library.
- I became lazy, got into bad stuff, bummed around.
- I refuse to pay your way as you bum around and ruin not only mine but also, and especially, your own life.
- After paying cash for the accessory, and helping Mum back to her car with the coffee machine, I bummed around Hornsby some more, waiting for Rick to finish work to go to the pub for a couple.
- Ten-year-olds don't bum around with sixteen year olds, especially not members of the opposite sex.
- The city planners didn't make it a point to add any places of interest or recreation, so you either had a job or you bummed around town looking for something to do.
- After lunch we continued the drive around the bays and then took Vicky and Sally back home, and then just came home ourselves and bummed around for the afternoon.
- He walked over to a small arcade next, where he just played games and bummed around for a while.
- It's of growing up, you're not a kid, and you can't bum around anymore.
- He'd landed the job by meeting a Canadian coterie at the Cannes festival, where he bummed around as a wannabe filmmaker, sleeping on the beach and sneaking into movies with a fake pass.
- We bummed around town for a little bit and then stopped at another pub on the edge of the lake, and had a beer.
- Warren now says that he bummed around until he was 27 and then fell into boxing by chance after lending money, twice, to a pal to promote unlicensed fights and when it didn't come back, stepped in to do it himself.
- After meeting up with each other and after a sulky Tor gave Spencer his wallet back, the group bummed around the camp and then went to dinner.
- So find that medium between style and comfort because if you focus too much on style, you'll never want to or even be able to just bum around.
- I bummed around a bit, intending to go abroad but never really got together the cash.
- I basically bum around the house until I have to come here.
- College always does that, except for the people who bum around here for the whole summer.
- I went to the City College of Art and bummed around in rock bands for most of my early 20s, even most of my late 20s.
2with object Get by asking or begging. 乞讨 they tried to bum quarters off us 他们向我们讨二角五分的硬币。 Example sentencesExamples - Some days I hung out with the jocks, some days I hung out with the burn-outs, and most days I hung out with no one, sort of flitting between groups, bumming a cigarette here and a ride there.
- Security cameras capture me every day crossing streets, paying for my milk, kissing my girlfriend in an elevator, bumming a cigarette from a friend outside a building.
- There's also a terrasse, but be warned that you'll be a magnet for people bumming change.
- But is this really the best travel deal since bumming a ride - or just a painful reminder that you get what you pay for?
- For Christ's sake, she'd gotten engaged, to the guy that was currently bumming a cigarette off of Robin.
- She bummed a smoke off the bartender - Whitey the Roosk didn't like smoking, either - and off she went.
- But he never stops scuffling, even when bumming a ride on the rails from Chicago to San Francisco.
- Asked what got them started, the girls both say spending time with friends who smoke and bumming an occasional cigarette.
- He had the nicest car of any of my friends, which was why we were always bumming rides off of him.
- We took pictures, bummed cigarettes from other people in the crowd, and waited impatiently for the band to come on.
- ‘You haven't given off such feelings in a long time, Marek,’ Iliana said, bumming a smoke.
- Early next spring, Ramsey football players are expected to start a training program which will include eating Flintstone vitamins, tee-peeing Summit Avenue and bumming cigarettes.
- The rock 'n' roll dream isn't only about sleeping on floors and continually bumming cigarettes.
- I suddenly had nicotine craving though, and bummed a cigarette off Nikki.
- Inside, Sophie says she's bummed a cigarette and we go out to the patio.
- However, within a month of bumming a ride home with Mittler Racing from a 2001 Indianapolis truck race, he was hanging around the shop, eventually being invited to turn test laps.
- I bummed a lift up to Hornsby with Rick as a few of the SES guys were up there having a couple of quiet drinks.
- Unlike that guy who sits in front of 7-11 every day, bumming cigarettes and asking for handouts, I go to work.
Synonyms scrounge, beg, borrow informal cadge, sponge, touch someone for British informal scab Scottish informal sorn on someone for North American informal mooch Australian/New Zealand informal bludge
adjectivebʌmbəm informal attributive Of poor quality; bad or wrong. 劣质的;差的;错误的 not one bum note was played 一个音符都没弹错。 Example sentencesExamples - The handover is the occupation with a Quisling face and no matter what we say, opposition to it will only grow when they realize what a bum deal they're getting.
- And if you do come and see us live, sorry for the mucked up intros, the bum notes.
- In a way it is strange to be so upset over an object, but a musical instrument is always more than just another thing, especially a well-loved guitar with a long personal history, shared bum notes and all.
- Singing, playing instruments or dancing, there is not a bum note or misplaced foot from any of the actors all night.
- If the band hit a bum note, they stop and start over.
- And play it with them, you'll be crying with laughter at every bum note!
- The characters themselves are as solid as can be, with not one cast member hitting a bum note.
- Well we all hit bum notes, no matter how good you are.
- Gee, I sure wouldn't want to be the intern responsible for that bum tip.
- But really, the album kicks off on such a bum note that it's hard to imagine how the Rapture plan to get things back on track.
- There are a few bum notes in this collection though.
- Not one bum track on this album and I was in heaven playing it.
- Sure there's the odd glitch, bum note and flaw, but the sum makes for an extremely entertaining celebration of showbiz.
- Alec Townsend has possibly the best voice I have heard in an unsigned act with hardly a bum note or flat harmony within earshot.
- Their vocal delivery was almost in key the whole time and there was nary a bum note squealing out of the amps.
- It was a bum note to end on but the pulsating finale should have left the fans hungry for more against Doncaster on Saturday.
- It's utterly unnecessary and is the one bum note in an otherwise unusually good second outing for the characters.
- Since Paul Harvey is not usually considered to be a purveyor of bum dope, I believe what he says about this balloon scheme.
- The only thing I was thinking at the time was what a bloody bum deal I was getting.
- The songs will stand on their merits and flaws, but I enjoyed the first listen; Warren Ellis has never played a bum note.
Synonyms bad, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, substandard, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent dreadful, awful, terrible, abominable, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, hopeless, worthless, laughable, lamentable, miserable, sorry, third-rate, diabolical, execrable informal crummy, rotten, pathetic, useless, woeful, lousy, ropy, appalling, abysmal, pitiful, God-awful, dire, poxy, not up to snuff, the pits British informal duff, chronic, rubbish vulgar slang crap, shit, chickenshit
Phrasesgive someone (or get) the bum's rush 1informal Forcibly eject someone (or be forcibly ejected) from a place or gathering. 〈主北美〉(被)驱逐 the bouncer gave me the bum's rush Example sentencesExamples - Absolutely, no reason for all of us to get the bum's rush.
- One of my colleagues tried to get an interview with Ian earlier this week but got the bum's rush: ‘Ian's too busy shooting Casualty.’
- 1.1Abruptly dismiss someone (or be abruptly dismissed) for a poor idea or performance.
(因想法或表现差而)突然解雇某人(或被突然解雇) the President-elect is getting the bum's rush over the economy Example sentencesExamples - It should come as no surprise that he got the bum's rush in short order for ‘loss of trust’, neither would it surprise anyone that the MoD went on paying him £1,000 a day for some time after his sacking.
- But the six-month leave turned out to be a permanent sacking and Mrs. F. gave him the bum's rush.
- Either way, it's the public who are getting the bum's rush.
- No, instead, I wonder when Tubby will be given the bum's rush from the boards he sits on.
- Are Wolfowitz and Co. going to give McKiernan the bum's rush, too?
- New Zealand's iconic five cent coin with the tuatara looks to be getting the bum's rush!
- I agree that Crean got the bum's rush and he would have made a decent PM.
- I'm wondering whether other conservatives agree that giving her the bum's rush for expressing her views on Michael Moore was over-the-top?
informal Travelling rough and with no fixed home; vagrant. 〈北美〉过流浪生活 he continued to travel the country on the bum Example sentencesExamples - The post-industrial label will not only appeal to Gen Xers on the bum, it also informs them this premium malt liquor was brewed for almost an entire month.
- His boiler it was leaking, and its drivers on the bum…
Phrasal VerbsMake someone feel annoyed, upset, or disappointed. 〈北美〉使心烦;使失望 I was assigned the day shift, which bummed me out Example sentencesExamples - Hearing just moments ago that Tony died has REALLY bummed him out.
- IHe's in a sour mood right now so I hope this doesn't bum him out too badly.
- But it's really bumming me out and affecting my life in ways I'm not happy with.
- The ticket price bummed me out more than the fact he changed dates.
- Powerful women whose insecurities drive them to hate on other powerful women bum me out.
- Man, it bums me out that today is our last day together!
- I've got to tell you something that may bum you out.
- We wanted coffee, which seemed to bum him out.
- You don't like others to control you, so when your parents give you a list of chores, it bums you out!
- I have to say if I was a Rays fan this trade would bum me out.
- I wish I could say it comforted me, but scrolling past those dozens of kitty obituaries just bummed me out even more.
Synonyms irritate, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, get someone's back up, put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles
OriginMid 19th century: probably from bummer. There are two different words spelled bum. To a Brit, the bum is their bottom. The origin of this word is unknown. From the Middle Ages until around the 18th century bum in this sense was not regarded as a rude word: Shakespeare used it, and a treatise on surgery could refer to ‘[pulling] the feathers from the bums of hens or cocks’. The American bum (mid 19th century) is a tramp or vagrant. The origin of this one is known—it is probably from bummer (mid 19th century), which now chiefly means ‘a disappointing or unpleasant situation’ but in the USA first referred to a vagrant. It comes from German bummeln ‘to stroll about’. The British slang word bumf (late 19th century), meaning ‘tedious printed material’ was originally bum fodder—it first meant ‘toilet paper’. The novelist Virginia Woolf wrote in a letter of 1912, ‘Is this letter written upon Bumf? It looks like it.’
Rhymesbecome, benumb, Brum, chum, crumb, drum, glum, gum, ho-hum, hum, Kara Kum, lum, mum, numb, plum, plumb, Rhum, rhumb, rum, scrum, scum, slum, some, strum, stum, succumb, sum, swum, thrum, thumb, tum, yum-yum nounPlural bumsbʌmbəm British informal A person's buttocks or anus. 〈英,非正式〉(人的)屁股;肛门 if you sit there you'll get a cold bum Example sentencesExamples - Two of the three theatres in the Kyogle Cinema show all the latest movies in comfort with thick seats (hate that sore bum thing) and cheap prices.
- You wander up the corridor looking for a coffee machine and women turn round and stare, saying ‘Hmmmm nice bum!’
- Why don't I get up off my lazy bum and be proactive, confess my undying love, or something!
- It's jazzed up with a French name and claims to restore your figure to the dimensions of a teenage gymnast, but basically, it's bum cream.
- Go figure, maybe it makes their bums look small.
- After a couple of hours of hard work we sat in the shelter of the storage box on a bundle of wooden stakes to keep our bums from the cold wet ground, drinking lemonade and sharing a muesli bar, surveying our small slice of land.
- The answer is that it is one thing to find bums for all those seats, quite another to sell the seats at profitable prices.
- I can see myself now, sitting in a comfy chair at the nursing home, smiling sweetly at the male attendants… pinching their bums, should they dare to turn their backs on me.
- Somehow in the process of laying back James kneed Jen in the bum and sent her rolling off the blanket and over onto the cold damp grass.
- ‘I'm a bit lazy and need a kick up the bum sometimes,’ he says.
- Audiences here are pretty unmotivated to get off their bums.
- I tried to help out, trying to not seem all that selfish and let him do the work and all, but alas, he insisted on me just sitting on my lazy bum and watch him.
- Although many hands go up for committee service, often for self-promotion, there are unfortunately a big number who sit on bums doing sweet nothing to promote the committee or the organisation.
- My head had been cold, my bum has been cold and my feet (you've guessed it) have been cold!
- Now, moving on to this afternoon's topic - it'll be of particular interest to you ladies who always worry ‘does my bum look big in this?’
- People ask how a guy like me, blessed with wispy hair that dances in the autumnal wind, three fine pairs of shoes and a wife with a pleasant round bum, can still be miserable and paranoid.
- I've seen a few of these series on videotape advertised on TV recently and if I weren't so lazy I'd probably get of my fat bum and buy some.
- She'd hardly got her bum on the seat and she'd be away again.
- Look for octopuses, barracuda, cuttlefish, and bare bums.
- The class consists of a warm-up, 40 minutes of exercises for bums, tums and thighs, followed by a cool-down and stretching session.
Synonyms rear, rump, rear end, backside, seat
Phrasesinformal The audience at a theatre, cinema, or other entertainment, viewed as a source of income. 观众 I've been offered lots of films just because the producers thought I would put bums on seats Example sentencesExamples - To get bums on seats, to get people watching the pro-teams, victory is what we need.
- The BBC, with its duty to provide public service programmes that don't necessarily have mass appeal, has beaten a commercial network whose main focus is putting bums on seats.
- It's very different from other festivals because it's not just based around big names and bums on seats.
- If that is not enough incentive for more bums on seats at Meadowbank then the return of Ross to his home city certainly is; this is a man with a few points to prove, and maybe put on the scoreboard.
- You did have free events, although most of them were down south, but the point of a lot of these big raves was putting bums on seats.
- The organisers of the festival hope to park 30,000 bums on seats for the 17-day gag-athon, starting on March 20.
- ‘I think you should also say to a writer, you can't be all things to all people, but in terms of bums on seats, disabled audiences will come to the theatre,’ Jenny reveals.
- He said: ‘I spent two days beforehand making sure we had many vociferous bums on seats.’
- His own view, that such knowledge was not necessary to put bums on seats and expand the club's commercial activity, seemed plausible enough and the money-making ideas soon started to pour out.
- The marketing gimmick was putting bums on seats and selling more meals, said Suwondo, who for two weeks has decorated his canteen with banners and posters supporting the election of two candidates, Abdillah and Ramli.
- Corporate sponsors are great but ordinary bums on seats guarantee a regular income and help to create the mind of atmosphere that will encourage the team to ‘do business’ on the pitch.
- But after a prolonged period of détente, artistic differences between the Fringe and the International festivals in Edinburgh are being put to one side in the interests of keeping bums on seats.
- In the States, the show was known as ‘Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam’ since the multi-millionaire mogul's brand name is guaranteed to put bums on seats over there.
- Market research showed that, while the venue's classical music events appealed to older people and acts such as The Singing Kettle put young bums on seats, there was little to attract those in their 20s and 30s.
- His all-star cast may ensure a higher profile and more bums on seats in the multiplexes, but actors of the stature of Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck are not known for taking risks.
- It exists to do one thing - get the audience interested - and in order to do that it has to strike a delicate balance between giving away the best parts of the film and showing enough to get bums on seats.
- If you're still getting massive audiences and selling records and putting bums on seats, you can't be all bad.
- If success for a television show is bums on seats, then Survivor beat Big Brother fair and square in this summer's ratings battle.
- The American example shows us that what we need is a really serious boost to the population itself - more bums on seats, more contributors to the media economy, more warm bodies creating value.
- All Festival directors probably derive more satisfaction from creative and challenging programming that, lo and behold, works than from merely filling up media inches or putting bums on seats.
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin. nounbəmbəm North American informal 1A vagrant. 流浪汉,流浪乞丐 Example sentencesExamples - So we dressed up for Halloween as gypsies and bums and hobos (the latter two later known as The Homeless) and other stereotypical costumes.
- People called bums and derelicts in the 20s and 30s had some of the best-paying, most secure jobs in industrial America by the 50s and 60s.
- Friday was spent weaving through filth encrusted bums passed-out in the gutter, as I took a therapeutic tour of some of the wicked (yet pretty pouncy) shops in the Valley.
- Abroad, the cultural influence has been vast, from The Beachcombers' Relic, to rappers, bums and crooks the world over.
- Film makers Ray Laticia and Ty Beeson, both recent graduates of the California film schools, have marketed the video as a chance to see ‘drunk bums beating each other silly’.
- Often it seemed that little more than the kerchief I tied over my nose separated me from the alcohol-smelling bums with crumbs in their beards who bookended me, swooning to Albinoni.
- For certified ski bums - or folks who want to look the part - we recommend the Primo Moc Gore-Tex by Merrell.
- Twice in the past week I've heard a commercial on the local ‘Urban’ station (don't ask) imploring people not to ignore bums and beggars on the street.
- Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.
- After the great stock market crash, all the rich gentleman were reduced to bums and hobos.
- You're not condemned to a life of rolling down the window and asking bums for directions.
- If you think about it, living life as a bum, hobo, or a transient is pretty extreme.
- The streets of the planet were lightly populated by a few wanderers and bums, some of them looking like they had never bathed once in their life.
- He seemed frustrated and said, ‘I know I'm supposed to walk on the curb side, but in San Francisco all the bums are on the inside.’
- Chuckling with maniacal glee the old bum loosened the rope that held up his voluminous, beggared trousers.
- Only haggards, bums, and barflies wandered the streets this late.
- In response, he created Bowery Derelicts - a group of drunken bums, inspired by people he saw every day across from his apartment.
- Not that I've never seen Asian bums and drunks and beggars sprawled out on the street.
- What do a down-and-out bum and a publishing house employee have in common?
- The amount of sinister looking bums and wandering pedestrians was in shorter stock here, the sidewalks mostly filled by a few meandering tourists who had gotten an early start on their shopping.
- Even the gang members are perfect, sipping beers in their cheap, showy suits against a background teeming with transients and bums.
Synonyms tramp, vagrant, vagabond, homeless person, derelict, down-and-out - 1.1 A lazy or worthless person.
懒汉,废物 你这忘恩负义的懒鬼。 Example sentencesExamples - Buck didn't reply right away, he had always been called a loser, a misfit, or a bum.
- It having been the winter and me having been the lazy bum that I am, it's been awhile since I shaved my legs.
- So, if I had my way I'd dramatically alter the Labour Code, because the increased provision for annual leave is going to move us further along the road of breeding a lazy bunch of bums.
- Because you are the laziest, most good-for-nothing bums, collection of bums, I've seen in a long time.
- If you are such a lazy, dishonest bum as to disagree with that basic premise, then we are not having a conversation about political economy.
- His family and friends disown him as a wastrel and a bum.
- It's just the kind of inspired power-to-the-people sensibility that can rouse some good ol'-fashioned politicking - even after the fact, you lazy bums.
- He opened his bedroom door and we all went in, then being the lazy bums we were, we slept half the day away.
- Although she had her own money, she wasn't going to support a lazy bum that had no job or career.
- I make no apologies for being a lazy, unfocused bum who fritters away opportunities.
- Do you think Santa flew all the way here and left these presents so you can sleep in like lazy bums?
- He knew that when he came downstairs at one o'clock his parents would call him a lazy bum and ask him how he could sleep so late.
- I would really like to thank each and every one of you personally, but I'm a lazy bum.
- Anzuko laughed, ‘And Kenji grew up to be a real lazy bum who couldn't even string a bow.’
- That I knew she wasn't the lazy bum she wanted everyone to think.
- But he also has the whiners, loafers, jonesers, and all of the no-good lazy bums, male and female, without a work ethic opposing his every move.
- Im such a lazy bum and I don't spell check the chapters.
- Much to his surprise, dad is released early on Christmas Eve, but he's still a worthless bum.
- This multi-talented filmmaker makes jacks-of-all-trades like Robert Rodriguez and Steven Soderbergh seem like lazy bums.
Synonyms idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, wastrel, drone, scrounger, cadger, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, laggard, slugabed, malingerer
2in combination A person who devotes a great deal of time to a specified activity. 迷恋某项活动者 滑雪迷。 Example sentencesExamples - Growling in from left is Warren Miller, the puckish godfather of extreme-ski cinema and our nation's original ski bum.
- Serious ski bums will do anything - washing pots, cleaning toilets - if there is the promise of a free lift pass for the season in return.
- I spent some time as an over educated ski bum and I traveled a lot before I settled down.
- Today, however, closer to sea level, Burt looks pretty much like every other dirtbag ski bum in the area.
- Surfer was the comically subversive tale of a group of ski bums (the Slackers) visited by a mysterious stranger who skis magically and imparts mystical knowledge.
- When he left school his mother bought him an old car and he took off to the Alps to become an international ski bum - a highly talented one.
- It's heavy and warm, with a waterproof exterior, so it might be useful for gadget-toting ski bums, bicyclists, and hikers.
- Part of me wants to go back to Park City and be a ski bum.
- I mean, my dad is in his sixties, rides motorcycles and is still a ski bum.
- That, and the absence of crowds, has turned Monterosa into a cult destination for alpine ski bums.
- Telluride icon and professional ski bum Captain Jack Carey has long symbolized the quintessential adventurer in all of us.
- A former ski bum, Balint, 64, has worked on Jackson Hole's legendary patrol for nearly a quarter century.
- Photographs taken by the Pigs on the Hill, a dedicated group of ski bums, show off the region's extreme backcountry trails and ski touring terrain.
- So Laurie set out for Park City, UT, taught Spanish in an elementary school, and became a ski bum.
- And now they're still ski bums, says somebody out there.
- Ski bums live in tents, car parks, bus stations, dog houses, whatever shelter than can find that can keep them skiing Fernie every day.
- There's an awkward friction between Miller, rollicking ski bum of the people, and the exclusivity of a place like the Yellowstone Club.
- All our group of climbing bums, world travelers, and NOLS instructors had in common was lack of experience - and keen interest in backcountry mountain skiing.
verbbəmbəm informal 1no object Travel, with no particular purpose or destination. 〈主北美〉(有目的或有目的地的)旅游 he bummed around Florida for a few months 他在佛罗里达一带游玩了几个月。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘He got cancer when I was spending a year in America just bumming around,’ says the actor.
- People - most of whom, as far I can discover in conversation later, are Australians bumming around Europe on some gap year experience - pass to and fro.
- They are a bunch of freeloading cretins dedicated to bumming around the villas of Europe and the Caribbean, pushing themselves onto unsuspecting hosts, eating them out of house and home, using up all their bog paper, then moving on.
- After college, Steve bummed around Europe on the Railpass junket for a few months.
- Whether you're planning to flash your Florins in the salsa bars of Aruba, bum around the Andes on your Bolivianos, or simply eke out your Euros on the French Riviera, chances are you'll be needing some holiday money in the coming months.
- Following graduation, he bummed around the world for four years.
- Find someone to watch the dog and there you are, bumming around the Continent with your buddy.
- Thrown out of two schools, John eventually graduated and bummed around the world with the stated ambition of ‘becoming a beggar.’
- There's also Ian, a tutor who'd been previously bumming around Europe for years and now seduces the more attractive of the students to whom he teaches English.
- Over lunch with John M today the idea of bumming around the world came up.
- She's off to Spain for all of Feb, staying with friends and bumming around learning Spanish, and she's keeping her rented room on the go while she's away.
- Sean Richardson in Sydney was in the Australian Regular Army 1986-1994, then bummed around the globe for a couple of years.
- During the undergraduate years Paul had been working on building sites in Reading, saving up money to go to Australia and bum around for a year.
- I mean, sure, I'd like a guy to bum around this wacky planet with, but it's no big deal.
- He was in the Australian Regular Army 1986-1994, bummed around the world for a couple of years, has finished his law degree and works as research assistant at a commercial firm.
- He spent 15 years bumming around Canada working on trucks, ships and at mines.
- I'm currently in Dublin just bumming around, sorting stuff out, but the clock is ticking.
- Many years ago I spent the summer bumming around Greece.
- A failed actor with a history of alcoholism, Treadwell bummed around California until, he claims, he awoke from a blackout to discover a bear looming over him.
- It took a phone call from Rewpert, who continues to excel at bumming around (he's in Wales), for me to realize why the B's refuse to talk to me while they're on vacation.
- Upon graduating, she plans to defer college for a year and go abroad, not to study or even bum around Europe but to squat in an abandoned building in London, like a true punk.
Synonyms loaf, lounge, idle, laze, languish, moon, stooge, droop, dally, dawdle, amble, potter, wander, drift, meander - 1.1 Pass one's time idly.
闲荡,虚度光阴 we spent most of the summer just bumming around Example sentencesExamples - The city planners didn't make it a point to add any places of interest or recreation, so you either had a job or you bummed around town looking for something to do.
- After paying cash for the accessory, and helping Mum back to her car with the coffee machine, I bummed around Hornsby some more, waiting for Rick to finish work to go to the pub for a couple.
- After meeting up with each other and after a sulky Tor gave Spencer his wallet back, the group bummed around the camp and then went to dinner.
- After lunch we continued the drive around the bays and then took Vicky and Sally back home, and then just came home ourselves and bummed around for the afternoon.
- I refuse to pay your way as you bum around and ruin not only mine but also, and especially, your own life.
- Then I bummed around town for a while, having a really relaxing time drinking cold drinks and watching the people, and enjoying just sitting back and actually being in Canberra again.
- Ten-year-olds don't bum around with sixteen year olds, especially not members of the opposite sex.
- He walked over to a small arcade next, where he just played games and bummed around for a while.
- He'd landed the job by meeting a Canadian coterie at the Cannes festival, where he bummed around as a wannabe filmmaker, sleeping on the beach and sneaking into movies with a fake pass.
- I became lazy, got into bad stuff, bummed around.
- Today I had off, so I did some brief work in my office, then bummed around the library.
- We bummed around town for a little bit and then stopped at another pub on the edge of the lake, and had a beer.
- It's of growing up, you're not a kid, and you can't bum around anymore.
- Saturday I awoke at the crack of noon, bummed around the coffee shop for a couple hours, and then went to a friend's house to help him install a satellite dish…
- Warren now says that he bummed around until he was 27 and then fell into boxing by chance after lending money, twice, to a pal to promote unlicensed fights and when it didn't come back, stepped in to do it himself.
- I went to the City College of Art and bummed around in rock bands for most of my early 20s, even most of my late 20s.
- I basically bum around the house until I have to come here.
- College always does that, except for the people who bum around here for the whole summer.
- So find that medium between style and comfort because if you focus too much on style, you'll never want to or even be able to just bum around.
- I bummed around a bit, intending to go abroad but never really got together the cash.
2with object Get by asking or begging. 乞讨 they tried to bum money off us 他们向我们讨二角五分的硬币。 Example sentencesExamples - I suddenly had nicotine craving though, and bummed a cigarette off Nikki.
- Asked what got them started, the girls both say spending time with friends who smoke and bumming an occasional cigarette.
- We took pictures, bummed cigarettes from other people in the crowd, and waited impatiently for the band to come on.
- But is this really the best travel deal since bumming a ride - or just a painful reminder that you get what you pay for?
- Unlike that guy who sits in front of 7-11 every day, bumming cigarettes and asking for handouts, I go to work.
- Inside, Sophie says she's bummed a cigarette and we go out to the patio.
- However, within a month of bumming a ride home with Mittler Racing from a 2001 Indianapolis truck race, he was hanging around the shop, eventually being invited to turn test laps.
- The rock 'n' roll dream isn't only about sleeping on floors and continually bumming cigarettes.
- But he never stops scuffling, even when bumming a ride on the rails from Chicago to San Francisco.
- ‘You haven't given off such feelings in a long time, Marek,’ Iliana said, bumming a smoke.
- For Christ's sake, she'd gotten engaged, to the guy that was currently bumming a cigarette off of Robin.
- There's also a terrasse, but be warned that you'll be a magnet for people bumming change.
- Some days I hung out with the jocks, some days I hung out with the burn-outs, and most days I hung out with no one, sort of flitting between groups, bumming a cigarette here and a ride there.
- Security cameras capture me every day crossing streets, paying for my milk, kissing my girlfriend in an elevator, bumming a cigarette from a friend outside a building.
- Early next spring, Ramsey football players are expected to start a training program which will include eating Flintstone vitamins, tee-peeing Summit Avenue and bumming cigarettes.
- She bummed a smoke off the bartender - Whitey the Roosk didn't like smoking, either - and off she went.
- I bummed a lift up to Hornsby with Rick as a few of the SES guys were up there having a couple of quiet drinks.
- He had the nicest car of any of my friends, which was why we were always bumming rides off of him.
adjectivebəmbəm informal attributive Of poor quality; bad or wrong. 劣质的;差的;错误的 not one bum note was played 一个音符都没弹错。 Example sentencesExamples - Alec Townsend has possibly the best voice I have heard in an unsigned act with hardly a bum note or flat harmony within earshot.
- It was a bum note to end on but the pulsating finale should have left the fans hungry for more against Doncaster on Saturday.
- Not one bum track on this album and I was in heaven playing it.
- Gee, I sure wouldn't want to be the intern responsible for that bum tip.
- Sure there's the odd glitch, bum note and flaw, but the sum makes for an extremely entertaining celebration of showbiz.
- Their vocal delivery was almost in key the whole time and there was nary a bum note squealing out of the amps.
- The characters themselves are as solid as can be, with not one cast member hitting a bum note.
- Since Paul Harvey is not usually considered to be a purveyor of bum dope, I believe what he says about this balloon scheme.
- In a way it is strange to be so upset over an object, but a musical instrument is always more than just another thing, especially a well-loved guitar with a long personal history, shared bum notes and all.
- The songs will stand on their merits and flaws, but I enjoyed the first listen; Warren Ellis has never played a bum note.
- It's utterly unnecessary and is the one bum note in an otherwise unusually good second outing for the characters.
- The handover is the occupation with a Quisling face and no matter what we say, opposition to it will only grow when they realize what a bum deal they're getting.
- Well we all hit bum notes, no matter how good you are.
- And play it with them, you'll be crying with laughter at every bum note!
- Singing, playing instruments or dancing, there is not a bum note or misplaced foot from any of the actors all night.
- There are a few bum notes in this collection though.
- If the band hit a bum note, they stop and start over.
- The only thing I was thinking at the time was what a bloody bum deal I was getting.
- And if you do come and see us live, sorry for the mucked up intros, the bum notes.
- But really, the album kicks off on such a bum note that it's hard to imagine how the Rapture plan to get things back on track.
Synonyms bad, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, substandard, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent
Phrasesgive someone (or get) the bum's rush 1informal Forcibly eject someone (or be forcibly ejected) from a place or gathering. 〈主北美〉(被)驱逐 Example sentencesExamples - Absolutely, no reason for all of us to get the bum's rush.
- One of my colleagues tried to get an interview with Ian earlier this week but got the bum's rush: ‘Ian's too busy shooting Casualty.’
- 1.1Abruptly dismiss someone (or be abruptly dismissed) for a poor idea or performance.
(因想法或表现差而)突然解雇某人(或被突然解雇) Example sentencesExamples - I agree that Crean got the bum's rush and he would have made a decent PM.
- Are Wolfowitz and Co. going to give McKiernan the bum's rush, too?
- It should come as no surprise that he got the bum's rush in short order for ‘loss of trust’, neither would it surprise anyone that the MoD went on paying him £1,000 a day for some time after his sacking.
- New Zealand's iconic five cent coin with the tuatara looks to be getting the bum's rush!
- Either way, it's the public who are getting the bum's rush.
- But the six-month leave turned out to be a permanent sacking and Mrs. F. gave him the bum's rush.
- No, instead, I wonder when Tubby will be given the bum's rush from the boards he sits on.
- I'm wondering whether other conservatives agree that giving her the bum's rush for expressing her views on Michael Moore was over-the-top?
informal Traveling with rough provisions and with no fixed home; living as a vagrant. 〈北美〉过流浪生活 Example sentencesExamples - The post-industrial label will not only appeal to Gen Xers on the bum, it also informs them this premium malt liquor was brewed for almost an entire month.
- His boiler it was leaking, and its drivers on the bum…
informal Make someone feel annoyed, upset, or disappointed. 〈北美〉使心烦;使失望 it really bummed me out when he forgot my birthday Example sentencesExamples - I have to say if I was a Rays fan this trade would bum me out.
- We wanted coffee, which seemed to bum him out.
- The ticket price bummed me out more than the fact he changed dates.
- Man, it bums me out that today is our last day together!
- But it's really bumming me out and affecting my life in ways I'm not happy with.
- Hearing just moments ago that Tony died has REALLY bummed him out.
- Powerful women whose insecurities drive them to hate on other powerful women bum me out.
- IHe's in a sour mood right now so I hope this doesn't bum him out too badly.
- I wish I could say it comforted me, but scrolling past those dozens of kitty obituaries just bummed me out even more.
- I've got to tell you something that may bum you out.
- You don't like others to control you, so when your parents give you a list of chores, it bums you out!
Synonyms irritate, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, get someone's back up, put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles
OriginMid 19th century: probably from bummer. nounbəmbəm British informal A person's buttocks or anus. 〈英,非正式〉(人的)屁股;肛门 if you sit there you'll get a cold bum Example sentencesExamples - Look for octopuses, barracuda, cuttlefish, and bare bums.
- The class consists of a warm-up, 40 minutes of exercises for bums, tums and thighs, followed by a cool-down and stretching session.
- I tried to help out, trying to not seem all that selfish and let him do the work and all, but alas, he insisted on me just sitting on my lazy bum and watch him.
- I've seen a few of these series on videotape advertised on TV recently and if I weren't so lazy I'd probably get of my fat bum and buy some.
- Two of the three theatres in the Kyogle Cinema show all the latest movies in comfort with thick seats (hate that sore bum thing) and cheap prices.
- Audiences here are pretty unmotivated to get off their bums.
- After a couple of hours of hard work we sat in the shelter of the storage box on a bundle of wooden stakes to keep our bums from the cold wet ground, drinking lemonade and sharing a muesli bar, surveying our small slice of land.
- Why don't I get up off my lazy bum and be proactive, confess my undying love, or something!
- Now, moving on to this afternoon's topic - it'll be of particular interest to you ladies who always worry ‘does my bum look big in this?’
- My head had been cold, my bum has been cold and my feet (you've guessed it) have been cold!
- She'd hardly got her bum on the seat and she'd be away again.
- ‘I'm a bit lazy and need a kick up the bum sometimes,’ he says.
- People ask how a guy like me, blessed with wispy hair that dances in the autumnal wind, three fine pairs of shoes and a wife with a pleasant round bum, can still be miserable and paranoid.
- Although many hands go up for committee service, often for self-promotion, there are unfortunately a big number who sit on bums doing sweet nothing to promote the committee or the organisation.
- You wander up the corridor looking for a coffee machine and women turn round and stare, saying ‘Hmmmm nice bum!’
- I can see myself now, sitting in a comfy chair at the nursing home, smiling sweetly at the male attendants… pinching their bums, should they dare to turn their backs on me.
- Go figure, maybe it makes their bums look small.
- Somehow in the process of laying back James kneed Jen in the bum and sent her rolling off the blanket and over onto the cold damp grass.
- The answer is that it is one thing to find bums for all those seats, quite another to sell the seats at profitable prices.
- It's jazzed up with a French name and claims to restore your figure to the dimensions of a teenage gymnast, but basically, it's bum cream.
Synonyms rear, rump, rear end, backside, seat
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin. |