1 [C] a container that is filled with material that will explode when it is thrown or dropped, or when a device inside it makes it explode 炸弹:
Fortunately, the car bomb failed to go off.幸亏那枚汽车炸弹没有爆炸。
2 [I] the bomb [sing] nuclear weapons 核武器;核子武器:
How many countries have the bomb now?现在有多少个国家拥有核武器?
3a bomb [sing] (Brit 英) (informal 非正式) a lot of money 一大笔钱:
That car must have cost you a bomb!那辆车准花了你一大笔钱!
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/bɒm ||; bɑm/verb
1 [T] to attack a city, etc with bombs 轰炸:
Enemy forces have bombed the bridge.敌军轰炸了桥梁。
2 (Brit 英) (informal 非正式)bomb along, down, up, etc to move along very fast in the direction mentioned, especially in a vehicle (尤指车辆)朝所述方向飞驰:
He was bombing along at 100 miles an hour when the police stopped him.警察把他截住的时候,他正以每小时100英里的高速飞驰。