Cough
[kɒf] or [kɔf]
解释:
(noun.) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis.
(verb.) exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion; 'The smoker coughs all day'.
手打:温迪--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
(v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
(v. t.) To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
(v. i.) A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.
(v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.
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解释:
n. an effort of the lungs to throw off injurious matter accompanied by a harsh sound proceeding from the throat.—v.i. to make this effort.—v.t. to expel from the throat or lungs by a cough.—ns. Cough′-drop -loz′enge a sweetmeat taken to cure coughing; Cough′er; Cough′ing —Cough down to drown a speaker's voice by coughing so that he must stop.
整理:诺拉
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you are aggravated by a constant cough indicates a state of low health; but one from which you will recuperate if care is observed in your habits. To dream of hearing others cough, indicates unpleasant surroundings from which you will ultimately emerge.
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例句:
- Mr. Snagsby, having said this in a very plaintive manner, throws in a cough of general application to fill up all the blanks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I immediately inquired of her why she left her home with such a dreadful cough. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- It must be English for some one, sir, I think, Mr. Snagsby submits with his deferential cough. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- As soon as he had withdrawn the cloth and placed the dessert upon the table, he began to cough and place himself in an attitude of preparation. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- It is only a nervous cough. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- She was stopped by a cough. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The poor creature interrupted me with loud sobs, which produced such a dreadful fit of coughing, I thought that she would have expired on the spot. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- She was coughing most dreadfully, and her breath was still more oppressed than my own. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- However, as soon as he could be heard through Mr. Smallweed's coughing and his vicious ejaculations of Oh, my bones! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- He seemed about to dispute this designation of himself when he was seized with a violent fit of coughing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The broker was taken with such a fit of coughing he burst a blood-vessel, and the man who let the bromine out got away and never came back. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The waiter coughed, as if he modestly invited me to get over that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Dodson coughed and looked at Fogg, who said 'Perfectly,' also. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- There was no sound within: so she coughed and listened again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- He coughed and spat and listened to the heavy machine gun hammer again below the bend. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Perker coughed violently, and asked Mr. Pickwick whether he wouldn't like to look at the morning paper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- His voice deserted him; he coughed and spluttered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Mr. Snagsby turns up the gas and coughs behind his hand, modestly anticipating profit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- After rendering this general tribute to the port, Mr. Snagsby in his modesty coughs an apology behind his hand for drinking anything so precious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- You can be alarmed enough, if Eva coughs, or has the least thing the matter with her; but you never think of me. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Kitty has no discretion in her coughs, said her father; she times them ill. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Mr. Snagsby says nothing to this effect, says nothing at all indeed, but coughs his forlornest cough, expressive of no thoroughfare in any direction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Mr. Snagsby appears to have set out in this reply with some desperate design of repeating the name, but on reflection coughs again to excuse himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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