blast /blɑːst/ star3 CET4 TEM4 (blasting,blasted,blasts)

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb. (尤指炸弹引起的) 大爆炸

  例：

  250 people were killed in the blast.

  250人在这次大爆炸中丧生。

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  V-T（及物动词） If something is blasted into a particular place or state, an explosion causes it to be in that place or state. If a hole is blasted in something, it is created by an explosion. 由爆炸生成; 由爆炸引起

  例：

  There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.

  有毒化学品有爆炸后进入空气的危险。

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  V-T（及物动词） If workers are blasting rock, they are using explosives to make holes in it or destroy it, for example, so that a road or tunnel can be built. 用炸药炸

  例：

  Local workmen were blasting the rock face beside the track in order to make it wider.

  当地工人正在用炸药炸开小路旁边的岩石面以便将其拓宽。

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  V-T（及物动词） To blast someone means to shoot them with a gun. 向…射击 [journalism]

  例：

  A son blasted his father to death after a lifetime of bullying, a court was told yesterday.

  昨天有人告知法庭，一个儿子因长期受欺凌而开枪打死了其父亲。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） Blast is also a noun. 枪击

  例：

  Anthony died from a shotgun blast to the face.

  安东尼因被猎枪击中面部而死。

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  V-T（及物动词） If someone blasts their way somewhere, they get there by shooting at people or causing an explosion. 借助射击或爆炸打开 (通道)

  例：

  The police were reported to have blasted their way into the house using explosives.

  据报道，警察已经借助炸药开道冲进了那所房子。

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  V-T（及物动词） If something blasts water or air somewhere, it sends out a sudden, powerful stream of it. 强速喷射 (水流或气流)

  例：

  Blasting cold air over it makes the water evaporate.

  向它上面快速喷冷气可使水蒸发掉。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） Blast is also a noun. 强劲的 (气或水) 流

  例：

  Blasts of cold air swept down from the mountains.

  阵阵强冷气流从山上席卷下来。

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  V-T/V-I（及物动词/不及物动词） If you blast something such as a car horn, or if it blasts, it makes a sudden, loud sound. If something blasts music, or music blasts, the music is very loud. 突然大声按响; 大声放 (音乐); 突然发出巨响; (音乐) 大声播放

  例：

  ...drivers who do not blast their horns.

  …那些没有狂按喇叭的驾驶员。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） Blast is also a noun. (喇叭或音乐等的) 大声鸣响

  例：

  The buzzer suddenly responded in a long blast of sound.

  蜂鸣器突然以一声长长的鸣响做出回应。

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  N-SING（单数型名词） If you say that something was a blast, you mean that you enjoyed it very much. 奇妙的感受 [非正式]

  例：

  He went sledding with his daughter. "It was a blast," he said later.

  他和女儿去坐雪橇玩了。“那真是一次奇妙的感受，”他后来说。

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  PHRASE（习语） If something such as a radio or a heater is on full blast, or on at full blast, it is producing as much sound or power as it is able to. 最大音量; 最大限量

  例：

  In many of those homes the television is on full blast 24 hours a day.

  许多家庭一天24小时都把电视开到最大音量。