Whine
[waɪn]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
芭芭拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
克莱德編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Cry (plaintively), moan (in a childish way).
n. Plaintive tone.
伯特伦編輯
解釋/意思:
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.
校對:拉里
例句/造句/用法:
- The bullet hit a rock and ricocheted with a sharp whine. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- You can't go, Amy, so don't be a baby and whine about it. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I said, it is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The swollen lead-coloured under lip trembled with a shameful whine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- On her accompanying each of these reproaches with a threatening stamp of the foot, the wretched creature protested with a whine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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. 雪麗.
- The dog too was on the alert in an instant, and ran whining to the door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But there was no reply to Wildeve's shout, save a mournful whining from the herons which were nesting lower down the vale. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Even Woola seemed to feel the weight of the impending calamity, for he pressed close to Dejah Thoris and to me, whining pitifully. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Any literary scrub, or shabby, whining artist. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- Why, damme, now, the girls's whining again! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- You hear it in the whining and maniacal shrieking of the Bolshevists. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was a joke, my good sir--a practical joke, nothing more, he whined incessantly. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- No; but one of them was mine all the same, whined the little man. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He absolutely whined and whimpered at last like a fretful child. 威爾基·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. 維萊特.
- Pompey ran about and whined eagerly outside the gate, where the marks of the brougham's wheels were still to be seen. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 雪麗.
- 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. 雪麗.
艾米編輯