ham
n
1
(a) [C] upper part of a pig's leg, salted and dried or smoked for food 火腿
several hams hanging on hooks 挂在钩上的几只火腿.
(b) [U] meat from this 火腿肉: a slice of ham 一片火腿
[attrib 作定语]
a ham sandwich 火腿三明治. Cf 参看 bacon, gammon, pork.
2 [C] (esp of animals) back of the thigh; thigh and buttock (尤指动物)後腿, 股部和臀部.
3 [C] (sl 俚) person who acts or performs badly 拙劣的表演者
He's a terrible ham. 他的表演糟透了.
[attrib 作定语]
ham actors/acting 蹩脚的演员[演出].
4 [C] (infml 口) operator of an amateur radio station 业余无线电台的操作者
a radio ham 业余无线电台的收发报员. ham, v (-mm-) [I, Ip, Tn, Tn.p]
~ (it/sth) (up) (sl 俚) act in a deliberately artifical or exaggerated way; overact 以做作或夸张的方式作表演; 表演过火
Do stop hamming! 不要再做戏了吧!
The actors were really hamming it up to amuse the audience. 这些演员为博观众一粲, 表演得实在太过火了.
OK. We can get some more tomorrow. We should finish the floor now. Can you take the other end of this piece of wood? Now you have to pull it to make the surface smooth like that.