Cough
[kɒf] or [kɔf]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
柯蒂斯校對
解釋/意思:
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
艾德蒙編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Mr. Snagsby, having said this in a very plaintive manner, throws in a cough of general application to fill up all the blanks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I immediately inquired of her why she left her home with such a dreadful cough. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It must be English for some one, sir, I think, Mr. Snagsby submits with his deferential cough. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As soon as he had withdrawn the cloth and placed the dessert upon the table, he began to cough and place himself in an attitude of preparation. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It is only a nervous cough. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She was stopped by a cough. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She was coughing most dreadfully, and her breath was still more oppressed than my own. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- However, as soon as he could be heard through Mr. Smallweed's coughing and his vicious ejaculations of Oh, my bones! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He seemed about to dispute this designation of himself when he was seized with a violent fit of coughing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The waiter coughed, as if he modestly invited me to get over that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Dodson coughed and looked at Fogg, who said 'Perfectly,' also. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There was no sound within: so she coughed and listened again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He coughed and spat and listened to the heavy machine gun hammer again below the bend. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Perker coughed violently, and asked Mr. Pickwick whether he wouldn't like to look at the morning paper. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- His voice deserted him; he coughed and spluttered. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mr. Snagsby turns up the gas and coughs behind his hand, modestly anticipating profit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- After rendering this general tribute to the port, Mr. Snagsby in his modesty coughs an apology behind his hand for drinking anything so precious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You can be alarmed enough, if Eva coughs, or has the least thing the matter with her; but you never think of me. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Kitty has no discretion in her coughs, said her father; she times them ill. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Mr. Snagsby says nothing to this effect, says nothing at all indeed, but coughs his forlornest cough, expressive of no thoroughfare in any direction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
辛迪校對