| 英语单词 | mutter |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['mʌtə(r)] 美 ['mʌtər] |
| 中文释义 | v.咕哝;抱怨;低语 n.嘟哝;抱怨;低语 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Mutter Sarah was muttering away to herself as she did the washing-up. (2) Some members of the government are beginning to mutter about the prime minister. (3) Some members of the government are beginning to mutter about the prime minister. (4) Some members of the government are beginning to mutter about the prime minister. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 萨拉一边洗碗碟一边独自咕哝个没完。 (2) 一些政府官员开始咕咕哝哝地抱怨首相。 (3) 一些政府官员开始咕咕哝哝地抱怨首相。 (4) 一些政府官员开始咕咕哝哝地抱怨首相。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When you mutter, you mumble under your breath, often in an angry way. You might mutter to yourself as you clean graffiti off your garage, for example. |
| vocabulary扩展 | An irritable teenager might mutter when her parents make her get off the couch and mow the lawn, and your uncle might mutter at the television every night when he watches the news. When someone mutters, she speaks in a low voice, either to herself or to another person. Mutter was originally moteren in the fourteenth century, and it comes from a Proto-Indo-European root, mut, which was most likely imitative — in other words, it sounds like its meaning. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]轻声说话;小声抱怨 If you mutter, you speak very quietly so that you cannot easily be heard, often because you are complaining about something. [V with quote] [V [V [V]
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