lump

noun

/lʌmp/

Idioms

a piece of something hard or solid, usually without a particular shape（通常为无定形的）块
- a lump of coal/cheese/wood一块煤／奶酪／木头
- This sauce has lumps in it.这调味汁里有结块。
- a heavy lump of clay一块沉甸甸的粘土
- He put a few more lumps of coal on the fire.他又往火上加了几块煤。
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- big
- giant
- great
- …
verb + lump
- have
- detect
- discover
- …
lump + verb
- form
- grow
(informal)
(also sugar lump (British English), North American English sugar cube)
a small cube of sugar, used in cups of tea or coffee方糖
- One lump or two?加一块方糖还是两块？
a swelling (= an area that is larger and rounder than normal) under the skin, sometimes a sign of serious illness肿块；隆起
- He was unhurt apart from a lump on his head.除了头上起了个包，他没有别的伤。
- Check your breasts for lumps every month.每月要检查一次乳房是否有肿块。
- He's developed a painful lump on his neck.他脖子上长了个肿块，很疼。
- She felt a lump in her breast.她摸到乳房有一个肿块。
- Surgeons operated to remove the lump.外科医生动手术摘除肿块。
- Tests confirmed the lump was cancerous.化验确诊那个肿块是癌变。
Topics Illnessc1
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- big
- giant
- great
- …
verb + lump
- have
- detect
- discover
- …
lump + verb
- form
- grow
(especially British English, informal) a heavy, lazy or stupid person笨重的人；懒汉；傻大个
- He’s a big fat lump.他是个傻大个儿。
Topics Personal qualitiesc2

词源noun Middle English: perhaps from a Germanic base meaning ‘shapeless piece’; compare with Danish lump ‘lump’, Norwegian and Swedish dialect lump ‘block, log’, and Dutch lomp ‘rag’.

Idioms

have, etc. a lump in your throat

to feel pressure in the throat because you are very angry or emotional（因愤怒或情绪激动而）喉咙哽住，哽咽

take your lumps

(North American English, informal) to accept bad things that happen to you without complaining毫无怨言地忍受
- We made mistakes but we took our lumps.我们犯了错误，但我们承担了责任。

lump

verb

/lʌmp/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they lump	/lʌmp/ /lʌmp/
he / she / it lumps	/lʌmps/ /lʌmps/
past simple lumped	/lʌmpt/ /lʌmpt/
past participle lumped	/lʌmpt/ /lʌmpt/
-ing form lumping	/ˈlʌmpɪŋ/ /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/

Idioms

to put or consider different things together in the same group, even when they are actually quite different把…归并一起（或合起来考虑）
- lump A and B together You can't lump all Asian languages together.你不能把所有的亚洲语言混为一谈。
- lump A (in) with B They hated being lumped in with teen pop bands.他们讨厌和青少年流行乐队混在一起。
词源verb Middle English: perhaps from a Germanic base meaning ‘shapeless piece’; compare with Danish lump ‘lump’, Norwegian and Swedish dialect lump ‘block, log’, and Dutch lomp ‘rag’. lump it. late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘look sulky’): symbolic of displeasure; compare with words such as dump and grump. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.

Idioms

lump it

(informal) to accept something unpleasant because there’s no other choice（因别无选择而）勉强接受，将就，勉为其难
- I'm sorry you're not happy about it but you'll just have to lump it.你不满意我很抱歉，可你只好将就一点了。
- That's the situation—like it or lump it!情况就是这样，不管你高兴还是不高兴！