Whistling
['hwɪslɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of whistling a tune; 'his cheerful whistling indicated that he enjoyed his work'.
柯蒂斯校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whistle
(-) a. & n. from Whistle, v.
吉尔达整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I say, said Legree, stamping and whistling to the dogs, wake up, some of you, and keep me company! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Lorne was sitting in a very pastoral fashion on a gate near my door, whistling. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- George neither spoke to nor looked at Legree, who did not countermand his orders, but stood, whistling, with an air of forced unconcern. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- My room door is open, and I can hear the shrill singing and whistling at this very moment. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my _whistle_, but disturbing all the family. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr. Pickwick sat opposite the tipstaff; and the tipstaff sat with his hat between his knees, whistling a tune, and looking out of the coach window. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Meanwhile the object of this soliloquy was striding up the avenue of the Grange at a rapid pace, and whistling gayly, out of sheer light-heartedness. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He was growling again, and whistling a half-strangled whistle, being an inheritance from the bulldog side of his ancestry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Drummle, an old-looking young man of a heavy order of architecture, was whistling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Here, Bruno, he called, whistling to the lumbering Newfoundland, who came pitching tumultuously toward them. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I waited a little while, and the singing and the whistling ceased. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The Sergeant stood at the window with his hands in his pockets, looking out, and whistling the tune of ?The Last Rose of Summer softly to himself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He seemed to find an immense fund of reflection in this circumstance, and sat pondering and inwardly whistling for some time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The boy laughed too and said something which I could not catch for the whistling of the wind of our awful speed. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He renewed his whistling, Mr. Moore his reading. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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