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 damper ['dæmpә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 令人扫兴的人, 增湿器, 阻尼器

[化] 减震器


  1. Rain put a damper on our picnic plans.
    大雨阻止了我们的野餐计划
  2. Mary's absence cast a damper over the party.
    玛丽缺席使晚会为之扫兴。
  3. Mary's absence cast a damper over the party.
    玛丽缺席使晚会为之扫兴。


damper
[ noun ]
  1. a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace

  2. <noun.artifact>
  3. a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations

  4. <noun.artifact>
  5. a depressing restraint

  6. <noun.act>
    rain put a damper on our picnic plans


Damp \Damp\ (d[a^]mp), a. [Compar. {Damper}; superl. {Dampest}.]
1. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet;
moist; humid.

O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.
--Dryden.

2. Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.]

All these and more came flocking, but with looks
Downcast and damp. --Milton.

damper \damp"er\ (d[a^]m"p[~e]r), n.
That which damps or checks; as:
(a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a
stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the
draught of air.
(b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations;
or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action
at a particular time.

Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any
damper at the modest little festivities. --W.
Black.

  1. The discovery of the man's body "put a damper on my day," Binienda said Wednesday. "Everything had been going so nicely.
  2. If interest rates rise, the economy will tend to slow down, putting a damper on inflation," he said.
  3. Analysts said that helped to put a damper on buying interest in the stock market, along with persistent worries about the economic outlook.
  4. This will help the prime minister achieve national consensus,' said Mr Murayama. That idea is likely to please the US, since it removes a damper on consumer spending.
  5. Today, however, union leaders contend that employers are increasingly threatening to permanently replace workers who strike, putting a damper on union efforts to organize workers and negotiate contracts effectively.
  6. The election also is putting a damper on activity.
  7. The new Macintosh products did have an impact on Apple's performance for the quarter, as costs associated with their introduction put a damper on earnings growth.
  8. That accord put a damper on the democratic activists who used to throng to his rallies.
  9. An official Czechoslovakian anti-smoking campaign called "Chance For 3 Million" _ a reference to the number of babies expected to be born in that country in the next decade _ appeared to put a damper on smoking for the first half of 1989.
  10. Now my tears make it damper as I empty my hamper, My Queen of the Launderette.
  11. In March, the government announced new taxes on private businessmen and rural township factories, deliberately putting a damper on their rapid growth in order to free up scarce electricity and supplies for less productive state-owned factories.
  12. "That puts a damper on the market for people who are afraid of inflation," said Peter DaPuzzo, head of retail trading at Shearson Lehman Hutton.
  13. Showers and thunderstorms Monday put a damper on trick-or-treating youngsters in the South, while parts of Michigan and eastern Wisconsin got a dusting of light snow.
  14. The administration and some Wall Street analysts credited some of those reforms with helping put a damper on trading volatility on Monday.
  15. The 1988 Christmas shopping season is off to a modestly good start, although retailers in some parts of the country report warmer weather has put a damper on their holiday spirits.
  16. Weekend rains and forecasts for more precipitation also put a damper on corn and wheat prices.
  17. "This throws a lot of gold out onto the market, and tends to put a damper on price advances," Mr. Nichols said.
  18. Andrew Lebow, a senior trader with E.D.& F. Man International Futures, said concerns of overproduction among members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries put a damper on Monday's trading.
  19. The largest blaze, a 308-acre fire on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, was stopped dead by cooler, damper weather Monday, said Warren Hartman of the U.S. Forest Service.
  20. Grass said the 15-month ordeal had put a damper on the company stock, with some pensions and other buyers avoiding it because of a cloud of suspicion hanging over Rite Aid.
  21. That, in turn, should put a damper on the incessant talk of drafting Mario Cuomo into the Democratic race _ and increase the odds that Cuomo will lend his support.
  22. Today, the upper ranks of English society still drink Pimm's, though in weather that is rather damper and at contests somewhat tamer: the Ascot horse races, the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the Henley rowing regatta.
  23. Mr. Giblen says Smith's is about to run into a nasty surprise that will put a damper on its earnings.
  24. But Craig LaMaster, who handles finances for Ottis Anderson, who was voted the game's most valuable player, says the current environment has indeed put a damper on potential endorsements.
  25. "This whole high-tech area has suddenly been punctured, and that puts a damper on the market," Solomon said.
  26. The Labor Department's report on the employment situation for this month, in particular, is widely expected to show strong job growth and thus put a damper on recent hopes that the economy was cooling off.
  27. One possible damper on the enthusiasm is a finding by the Conference Board that, despite the positive signs from the monthly confidence survey, fewer consumers than in September said they plan to buy automobiles in the next six months.
  28. There were bids for 360m shares, even though the possibility at lunchtime on Friday of hostilities breaking out in Iraq put a damper on the final day, Mr Gibbs believes. The price of 800p is a disappointment.
  29. Two dot and a West./But has grown close over the year/And is absolutely the best." I hate to put a damper on this love fest, but in my conversations with mah-jongg enthusiasts around town, I did detect a tinge of rivalry between the various loyalists.
  30. Many institutional investors clung to the sidelines, leaving the field to professionals and putting a damper on trading volume.
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