[VERB 动词]口吃;结结巴巴地说 If you stammer, you speak with difficulty, hesitating and repeating words or sounds.
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Five per cent of children stammer at some point...
5%的儿童在某个时期会口吃。
'Forgive me,' I stammered...
“原谅我,”我期期艾艾地说。
People cursed and stammered apologies.
大家骂了几句,然后结结巴巴地道歉。
stammering
Of all speech impediments stammering is probably the most embarrassing.
在所有言语障碍中,口吃可能是最令人尴尬的。
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[N-SING 单数名词]口吃;结巴 Someone who has a stammer tends to stammer when they speak.
A speech-therapist cured his stammer.
一位言语矫治师治愈了他的口吃。
Oxford
stam·mer/ˈstæmə(r); NAmEˈstæmər/
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stammerstammersstammeredstammeringverb[intransitive , transitive ]to speak with difficulty, repeating sounds or words and often stopping, before saying things correctly 口吃;结结巴巴地说SYN
stutter
◆Many children stammer but grow out of it.很多小孩口吃,但长大后就改过来了。+ speech◆‘W-w-what?’ he stammered.“什…什…什么?”他结巴着说。stammersth (out) ◆She was barely able to stammer out a description of her attacker.她只能勉强结结巴巴地说一说袭击她的人是什么模样。▶stam·mer·erstammererstammerers/; NAmE/nounnoun[singular ]a problem that sb has in speaking in which they repeat sounds or words or often pause before saying things correctly 口吃;结巴stam·mer/ˈstæmə(r); NAmEˈstæmər/stam·mer·er/; NAmE/
to speak with a lot of pauses and repeated sounds, either because you have a speech problem, or because you are nervous, excited etcSYN stutter: Whenever he was angry, he would begin to stammer slightly. Ben stammered out an apology.► see thesaurus at
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—stammerer noun [countable]
stammer1 verb
stammer2 noun
stammerstammer2 noun [countable usually singular]
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a speech problem which makes someone speak with a lot of pauses and repeated soundsSYN stutter: Jeff spoke with a slight stammer.
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