hammered

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He hammered a huge spoon as the sign of my restaurant.
他鎚了一個大餐匙給我的飯館作招牌。
If you're hammered when the cops show up, do what they say and complain about them later.
如果儅警察出現的時候，你已經喝醉了，那麽就找他們說的做，事後再發牢騷。
IN MOST intergovernmental conferences, the issues are not crucial or the agreements have been hammered out in advance.
在大多數政府間的會議中，那些不重要的事情或是協議早就提前被商定了。

"There are still details to be hammered out. There are still differences to be reconciled.

All week Democrats hammered Mrs Palin for her lack of experience of national or international politics.
ECONOMIST: The Republican convention
This new arthroplastic joint would be hammered into my upper arm and then cemented to my clavicle.
NPR: Excerpt: 'The Healing Of America'
How does forcing banks to lend aggressively rejuvenate an economy so recently hammered by aggressive lending?
FORBES: Joseph Stiglitz Reminds Us That Nobel Prizes Are Highly Misleading

A hammer is a tool that consists of a heavy piece of metal at the end of a handle. It is used, for example, to hit nails into a piece of wood or a wall, or to break things into pieces.
If you hammer an object such as a nail, you hit it with a hammer.
If you hammer on a surface, you hit it several times in order to make a noise, or to emphasize something you are saying when you are angry.
If you hammer something such as an idea into people or you hammer at it, you keep repeating it forcefully so that it will have an effect on people.
If you say that someone hammers another person, you mean that they attack, criticize, or punish the other person severely.
In sports, if you say that one player or team hammered another, you mean that the first player or team defeated the second completely and easily.
In track and field, a hammer is a heavy weight on a piece of wire, which the athlete throws as far as possible.
The hammer also refers to the sport of throwing the hammer.
If you say that someone was going at something hammer and tongs, you mean that they were doing it with great enthusiasm or energy.