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a. 震耳欲聋的

  1. He sat down amid deafening applause.
    他在震耳欲聋的掌声中就坐.
  2. Loudspeakers belched out deafening pop music.
    扩音器里播放出震耳欲聋的流行音乐。
  3. The roll of thunder was deafening.
    隆隆的雷声震耳欲聋。


deafening
[ adj ]
loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss
<adj.all>


Deafen \Deaf"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deafened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Deafening}.] [From {Deaf}.]
1. To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to
render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.

Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries.
--Addison.

2. (Arch.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or
floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining
with paper, etc.

Pugging \Pug"ging\, n. [See {Pug}, v. t.]
1. The act or process of working and tempering clay to make
it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for
pottery, etc.

2. (Arch.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under
the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden
sound; -- in the United States usually called {deafening}.


deafening \deaf"en*ing\, n.
The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a
floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are
filled in this process; pugging; sound insulation.


deafening \deaf"en*ing\, a.
extremely loud; so loud as to cause deafness; as, a disco
with rock music played at a deafening volume.
[PJC]

  1. At the huge Nowa Huta steel mill in Krakow, riot police rousted sleeping steelworkers, hurled deafening percussion grenades and rounded up 38 people.
  2. A tractor pulls a 35-foot yacht aboard; a road scraper makes a deafening roar as it moves under its own power onto the ship.
  3. Many factories have little or no safety gear, and workers spend up to 12 hours a day in deafening, poorly lit and overheated workspaces where they become fatigued and easily make mistakes that cause accidents, activists said.
  4. "I was campaigning but a lot of attention was devoted to the (Republican) convention, and then there was about three weeks of deafening noise about the Quayle selection, which made it very difficult to get through," he said.
  5. Its orange Aeroflot paint-job is always streaked with soot from its two deafening turbines.
  6. "I was campaigning but a lot of attention was devoted to the (GOP) convention, and then there was about three weeks of deafening noise about the Quayle selection, wich made it very difficult to get through," he said.
  7. Amid the near-continuous and deafening noise of the kilns and grinders, there is suddenly an unusual silence at the Bamburi cement plant.
  8. Their demonstration created a deafening roar that prevented about 6,000 people attending the conference from hearing the secretary's nearly 20-minute speech, which he delivered in full.
  9. As Hugh Johnson, chief economist at First Albany Corp., put it, the market's applause for the package "was less than deafening."
  10. Inside I could hear deafening drumming, wailing pipe music and crowds shuffling by the altars, leaving vast stacks of lotus leaves.
  11. The noise is deafening.
  12. The police played "Stars and Stripes Forever" at a deafening decibel level over their loudspeakers, and the previously belligerent teen promptly changed his tune.
  13. At the Nowa Huta steelworks in Krakow, where police staged a lightning raid with deafening percussion grenades Thursday while strikers slept, sullen workers emerged after their shifts ended and refused to talk with reporters.
  14. Witnesses heard a deafening bang followed by silence, then shouts and screams as passersby and residents rushed to the rescue. Firefighters arrived and cut victims from the wreckage.
  15. All over the country, the sound of Wall Street hotshots not bragging about their jobs is deafening.
  16. "A desperate call for arms became deafening," says the ANC's discussion paper.
  17. With a deafening roar and towering clouds of white smoke, two nuclear-missile rocket motors were destroyed Thursday, the first U.S. weapons eliminated under the arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union.
  18. A deafening roar filled the sanctuary, penetrating 18-inch walls and floors of reinforced steel and concrete that are designed to shut out noise.
  19. As the first train rumbled into Hof at dawn, a deafening cheer rang out from hundreds of well-wishers who had spent hours waiting in freezing weather.
  20. In another, a coil periodically emits a deafening electrical charge that prompts adults to cover their ears and schoolchildren to scream.
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