a sound like the one that is made when a heavy object hits something else 砰的一声;扑通一声 His head hit the floor with a dull thud. 他的头砰的一声撞在了地板上。 She could hear the thud of her own heartbeat sounding heavily in her ears. 她能听见自己怦怦的心跳声重重地在耳际回响。 She felt her heart give an extra thud. 她觉得心怦然一跳。 The boot made a dull thud as it hit the ground. 靴子掉在地上,发出砰的一声闷响。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- loud
- resounding
- …
- give
- make
- hear
- …
- with a thud
- the thud of a heart
- the thud of hooves
Word Originlate Middle English (originally Scots): probably from Old English thyddan ‘to thrust, push’; related to thoden ‘violent wind’. The noun is recorded first denoting a sudden blast or gust of wind, later the sound of a thunderclap, which led to the sense ‘ a dull, heavy sound’. The verb dates from the early 16th cent.