| 英语单词 | cough |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [kɒf] 美 [kɔːf] |
| 中文释义 | v.咳嗽;咳 n.咳嗽 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Cover your mouth when you cough. (2) I cough a great deal last night. (3) She cough to give him the hint that he shall go. (4) You really ought to/should do something about that cough! (5) The baby has a cough. (6) She gave a quiet cough to attract my attention. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 咳嗽时要捂上嘴。 (2) 我昨夜咳嗽得很厉害。 (3) 她咳了一声,向他暗示他该走了。 (4) 你咳嗽那麽厉害,真得治一治了! (5) 婴儿咳嗽了。 (6) 她轻轻地咳了一声好引起我注意。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A cough is a reflex in which your throat or lungs are cleared by a sudden, sharp burst of air escaping. A bad cough can make it very hard to sleep at night. |
| vocabulary扩展 | A cough is evidence that someone's sick, and it's a verb as well: "She began to cough and couldn't stop until someone brought her a bottle of water." You can also describe a cough-like sound that an engine makes when it's not working properly as a cough. The Old English source of cough is coughen, from a Germanic root — every version of the word is imitative, the word itself sounding like a cough. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]咳嗽 When you cough, you force air out of your throat with a sudden, harsh noise. You often cough when you are ill, or when you are nervous or want to attract someone's attention. [V]
coughing
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]咳嗽(病) A cough is an illness in which you cough often and your chest or throat hurts.
3 [VERB 动词]咯出(血等) If you cough blood or mucus, it comes up out of your throat or mouth when you cough. [V n] [V P n (not pron)] [Also V n P]
4 [VERB 动词](发动机等)突然发出刺耳的噪声 If an engine or other machine coughs, it makes a sudden, harsh noise. [V]
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