He could hear the hum of the bees in the garden.

他听得见花园里蜜蜂的嗡嗡声。

His strong voice cut through the hum of conversation like a knife through butter.

他那宏亮有力的声音一下子压倒了嗡嗡的谈话声。

The background with all of my phones is totally silent, no hiss, hum at all, just total blackness.

背景与我的所有电话，是完全沉默，没有噪音，哼声一切，在刚刚共有黑。

She heard the hum of voices in the house.

她听见了屋子里的嘈杂声。

You don't need to sing loud, you just hum softly.

你不必大声唱,只要轻轻哼就好了。

hum the opening bars of your favourite tune.

哼一哼你喜爱的曲子的开头几个小节。

She was humming to herself.

她独自哼着歌。

Things are starting to hum with activity.

气氛变得活跃起来。

The whole place was humming with life when we arrived.

我们达到时，到处一片繁华景象。

hum, you're joking!

哼，你在开玩笑吧！

hum! Trust you to make a mess of it.

哼!让你把这事搞得一团糟。

Remember, who agree you this siring outing, hum?

别忘了，是谁要带你们去春游的，嗯？

The room filled with the hum of conversation.

房间里充满了嘈杂的谈话声。

the hum of bees'/traffic'/voices

蜜蜂的嗡嗡声；车辆的呜呜声；人的嘈杂声

The streets were beginning to hum with life.

街道开始热闹起来。

The computers were humming away.

计算机在嗡嗡作响。

What's that tune you're humming?

你哼的是什么曲子？

She was humming softly to herself.

她在轻声哼着曲子。

hum, I am sorry but I thought you were French.

嗯，很抱歉，我以为你是法国人。

On Saturday morning, the town hums with activity and life.

周六早晨，小镇一派热闹繁忙，活力盎然。

The place is really beginning to hum...

这个地方真正开始热闹起来了。

He hummed to himself as he opened the trunk.

他独自哼着曲子打开了车子的后备箱。

She was humming a merry little tune...

她哼着一支欢快的小曲儿。

Within five hours, the equipment will be humming away again...

用不了5小时，设备就又能嗡嗡地运转了。

The birds sang, the bees hummed...

鸟儿叫，蜂儿鸣。

The hum of a generator rose and fell in the background, sometimes drowning our conversation.

发电机的嗡嗡声在我们身后响起又消失, 有时被我们的交谈声淹没.

The bees forget to sip their honey; drunken with light they foolishly hover and hum.

蜜蜂被光明所陶醉,忘了吸蜜, 只痴呆地飞翔嗡唱.

The hum of mains electricity is causing this gentleman some discomfort.

电流发出的嗡嗡声让这位办公室职员快崩溃了.

A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once.

铜管或木管乐器演奏者可以在演奏时哼唱, 用来同时产生两个音调.

The front door of the house was open and a hum of voices was audible.

房屋的前门开着,可以听见一阵嗡嗡的人声.

The hum of conversation died away as the curtain rose.

幕启时,嗡嗡的谈话声逐渐止息了.

From the window came the din of traffic police sirens and the hum of a generator.

窗外不时传来警笛尖锐的声音和发电机的嗡嗡声.

There is hum or noise in the speaker output.

扬声器输出声带嗡嗡声或杂音.

Mountain breeze blowing, hum sounds is to call mountains outside guests?

山风吹来, 呜呜作响,是在召唤山外的客人 吗 ?

It was after the business meeting and things were going socially with a hum.

当时刚散了会,大家正在活跃地交谈和寒暄.

Mila has long loved to listen to our hum at night out her bedroom window.

Mila很久以来就一直喜爱在夜晚聆听我们窗外的鸣叫.

I don't know the words of the song but I can hum it to you.

我不知道这首歌的歌词,但我可以哼给你听.

The new manager soon made things hum.

这位新经理不久便使一切都活跃起来了.

They heard a steady hum, which soon melted into a steady silence.

他们听到的持续的嗡嗡声, 不久就融为一片死寂.

用作不及物动词S+～(+A)

1. The refrigerator motor hummed.
   电冰箱的发动机发出嗡嗡声。
2. The motor hummed pleasantly as the plane reached cruising speed.
   飞机达到最高速度时,马达发出的嗡嗡声很好听。
3. The bees were humming in the garden.
   蜜蜂在花园里嗡嗡地叫。
4. The market hummed as trading began.
   买卖一开始市场就热闹起来了。
5. The new manager soon made things hum.
   这位新经理不久便使一切都活跃起来了。

用作及物动词S+～+ n./pron.

1. She hummed a folk song.
   她哼着一首民歌。
2. She is humming a little tune.
   她在哼唱一支小曲。
3. He often hums the song that he doesn't know the name.
   他总哼唱那首他也不知道名的歌。
4. She is humming a song that I never heard before.
   她在哼一首我以前从未听过的歌。

S+～+ pron./n. +to- v

1. She hummed her child to sleep.
   她哼着歌曲使孩子入睡。
2. He hummed her to make her smile.
   他唱歌来使她乐。
3. No one can hum him to draw his attention.
   没有人可以用哼歌来吸引他的注意。

1. We hear the hum of conversation from the next room.
   我们听到隔壁房间嗡嗡的谈话声。

hum around (v.+adv.)

在…周围不停地叫 hum never stop round sb or thing
hum sb/sth ⇔ around

The machine hummed all around us in the factory.

工厂里机器在我们周围嗡嗡作响。

The bees were humming around the hive.

蜜蜂在蜂箱周围嗡嗡地叫。

hum to (v.+prep.)

向…哼唱 sing to sb
hum sth to sb/oneself

He was humming a tune to himself.

他轻声哼着一支曲子。

He hummed the tune to me.

他给我哼唱了这支曲子。

hum with (v.+prep.)

忙于… be very busy with sth

～+名词

• hum%20a%20song">hum a song哼唱一首歌
• hum%20a%20tune">hum a tune哼唱一支小曲

～+副词

• hum%20busily">hum busily忙碌地轧轧响
• hum%20hoarsely">hum hoarsely嘶哑地哼着
• hum%20melodiously">hum melodiously有音律地哼唱
• hum%20monotonously">hum monotonously单调地哼哼
• hum%20musically">hum musically精通音乐地哼唱
• hum%20pleasantly">hum pleasantly令人愉快地哼哼
• hum%20along">hum along一路发出嗡嗡声
• hum%20around">hum around嗡嗡地飞来飞去

～+介词

• hum%20with">hum with充满…的嗡嗡声

～+介词

• hum%20of%20conversation">a hum of conversation嗡嗡说话声

• I have found..the persistent hum of the traffic..remarkably soothing.

  出自：N. Bawden

• Her real conversion..happened in semi-darkness, to the accompaniment of a low hum given off by the museum's slide projector.

  出自：R. Ingalls

• All of a sudden..a 'hum' goes round about some politician or other.

  出自：Observer

• They hummed and hawed and I could tell they weren't too interested.

  出自：J. Kelman

v.(动词)

1. hum的基本意思是“发出嗡嗡声,哼”,发出的声音可以是悦耳的,也可以是吵闹的,其发出者可以是人,也可以是别的发声体。hum还有“忙碌,活跃”之意。
2. hum可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,后可接名词或代词作宾语,也可接由动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。
3. hum的过去式和过去分词均为hummed。

sing，hum

这两个动词均含“唱”之意。

sing普通用词，泛指一般的歌唱或发出悦耳的声音。

hum指闭着双唇而不唱出字来，低语般的哼唱。