Grunt
[grʌnt] or [ɡrʌnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught.
(noun.) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs.
(noun.) an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker; 'infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts'; 'he went from grunt to chairman in six years'.
(verb.) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; 'He grunted his reluctant approval'.
錄入:厄普顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
(n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
(n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.
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同義詞及反義詞:
[See GROWL]
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解釋/意思:
v.i. to make a sound like a pig: to utter guttural sounds.—n. a short guttural sound as of a hog.—ns. Grunt′er; Grunt′ing.—adv. Grunt′ingly.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Hold your tongue, you are a Whig, said Elliston; and George Lamb was silent, after a grunt. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- With a deprecatory grunt, the jackal again complied. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Sir James gave a small grunt, which was less respectful than his usual mode of answering his mother. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The listening boy gave a grunt here, as much as to say 'But he strikes ME though! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mr. Helstone pushed out his cynical lip, wrinkled his brown forehead, and gave an inarticulate grunt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Kerchak grunted and turned away, for he was jealous of this strange member of his band. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Sarkoja and the other women grunted angrily at this evidence of weakness on the part of Sola. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Pilar grunted. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Pablo looked at her and grunted. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- As I returned, Lorquas Ptomel grunted something at me, and turning to his warriors gave a few words of command relative to the incubator. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- His face was sweating and he grunted. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Pablo grunted. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They did not see him again for several days, nor did the captain accord them more than the surliest of grunts when he was forced to speak to them. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Hermione laughed in her short, grunting fashion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Hermione gave a queer, grunting sound. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Had they, their squealing and grunting would have grown to such a volume as to attract the attention of the warriors within the buildings. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about on their four legs? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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