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词典释义:
whimper
时间: 2023-10-13 07:40:03
英 [ˈwɪmpə]
美 [ˈwɪmpər]

v. 抽泣;抽搭;呜咽;抽抽搭搭地说;哭诉

n. 抽泣声;呜咽声;虎头蛇尾;微弱的声音;骤降的语调

双语例句
  • The dog began to whimper after being abandoned.

    那只狗因被遗弃而低声呜咽。

  • She whimpered after fighting with her sister.

    她和姐姐打完架后开始低声抽泣。

  • I heard a whimper coming from that door.

    我听到从那扇门传来一阵呜咽声。

  • If he starts to whimper, I'll just harmonize with him.

    如果他开始呜咽,我就给他配和声。

  • Japan's efforts to tackle these problems have resembled a big whimper.

    日本解决这些难题的努力像是一个很大声的啜泣。

  • He might appear to have died with a bang, but he had long before died with a whimper.

    他好像是死于一声枪响,但很早以前,他就已经在一声呜咽中死去了。

  • David's crying subsided to a whimper.

    戴维的大声哭叫减弱为抽泣。

  • The child was lost and began to whimper.

    那孩子迷了路,抽抽搭搭地哭起来。

近义词
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vi.
释义
v.

(of a person or animal)make a series of low, feeble sounds expressive of fear, pain, or discontent

(人,动物)(因恐惧、痛苦或不满等而)抽泣,抽搭,呜咽

  • a child in a bed nearby began to whimper.

    躺在附近床上的小孩开始抽泣。

[with direct speech]say something in a low, feeble voice expressive of such emotions

抽抽搭搭地说,哭诉

  • ‘He's not dead, is he?’ she whimpered.

    “他没死,对吧?”她哭着说道。

n.

a low, feeble sound expressive of such emotions

抽泣声,呜咽声

  • she gave a little whimper of protest.

    她发出小声的抗议。

(a whimper)a feeble or anticlimatic tone or ending

微弱的声音;骤降的语调;虎头蛇尾

  • their first appearance in the top flight ended with a whimper rather than a bang.

    他们最初的登场体面又风光,最后却以冷冷清清、无人喝彩而收场。[ORIGIN: with allusion to T. S. Eliot's ‘This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper'(<Italic>Hollow Men</Italic>, 1925).]

词源

"early 16th cent.: from dialect whimp ‘to whimper', of imitative origin."

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