Whine
[waɪn]
解释:
(verb.) complain whiningly.
(verb.) move with a whining sound; 'The bullets were whining past us'.
(verb.) make a high-pitched, screeching noise; 'The door creaked when I opened it slowly'; 'My car engine makes a whining noise'.
芭芭拉校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
(v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
(n.) A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
克莱德编辑
同义词及近义词：
v. n. Cry (plaintively), moan (in a childish way).
n. Plaintive tone.
伯特伦编辑
解释:
v.i. to utter a plaintive shrill cry: to complain in an unmanly way.—n. a plaintive cry: an affected nasal tone of complaint.—ns. Whī′ner; Whī′ning.—adv. Whī′ningly.
校对:拉里
例句:
- The bullet hit a rock and ricocheted with a sharp whine. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- You can't go, Amy, so don't be a baby and whine about it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- I said, it is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The swollen lead-coloured under lip trembled with a shameful whine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Pilot pricked up his ears when I came in: then he jumped up with a yelp and a whine, and bounded towards me: he almost knocked the tray from my hands. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- On her accompanying each of these reproaches with a threatening stamp of the foot, the wretched creature protested with a whine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It is a grand purpose, and (changing his voice from a half-sneer to a whine) it's the Looard's own purpose, and that's better. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The dog too was on the alert in an instant, and ran whining to the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- But there was no reply to Wildeve's shout, save a mournful whining from the herons which were nesting lower down the vale. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Even Woola seemed to feel the weight of the impending calamity, for he pressed close to Dejah Thoris and to me, whining pitifully. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Any literary scrub, or shabby, whining artist. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Neglect it--go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling--and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Why, damme, now, the girls's whining again! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- You hear it in the whining and maniacal shrieking of the Bolshevists. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was a joke, my good sir--a practical joke, nothing more, he whined incessantly. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- No; but one of them was mine all the same, whined the little man. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- He absolutely whined and whimpered at last like a fretful child. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Sylvie watched the mood contemplative; its stillness irked her; she whined and jumped to break it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Pompey ran about and whined eagerly outside the gate, where the marks of the brougham's wheels were still to be seen. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- More restless than he was, he crawls out of his house, and looks at me, and wanders to the door, and whines to go upstairs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The true poet is not one whit to be pitied, and he is apt to laugh in his sleeve when any misguided sympathizer whines over his wrongs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The old dog always comes out of his kennel and wags his tail, and whines affectionately when somebody passes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
艾米编辑