核心词议:
vi. 咕哝;喃喃自语
vt. 咕哝;抱怨地说;低声含糊地说
mutter 基本解释
vt.& vi. 轻声低语,咕哝地抱怨;含糊地说;自言自语地说
n. 咕哝;小声低语,小声抱怨;怨言
n. 咕哝;小声低语,小声抱怨;怨言
速记方法
速记技巧 万物拟声法 拟声词,模仿嘀咕的声音,-er,表反复。 发音联想法 发音想成“妈的”
知识扩展
动词辨析 mutter at,mutter to这组短语都可译为“对…喃喃而语”,mutter to只表示“对(某人)”,而mutter at则含有感情色彩,即“针对(某人)”,如抱怨、威胁等。murmur,mutter,whisper 这些动词均有“低语”之意。murmur通常指人、微风或小溪等的低沉、柔和或连续的声音。mutter多指别人不易听到的低语。whisper通常指耳语、窃窃私语。
中文词源
mutter 嘟哝,嘀咕
拟声词,模仿嘀咕的声音,-er,表反复。
中文词源: mutter 嘟哝,嘀咕 拟声词,模仿嘀咕的声音,-er,表反复。 mutter
精选例句
1、 Excuse me,I mutter,"I have to get this sham over with."
“对不起。”我喃喃地说,“我得把这个假动作做完。”
2、 John would rub his eyes and mutter, "It is true, we did fly."
约翰揉了揉眼睛,喃喃自语道:“这是真的,我们真的飞了。”
常见考点例句:
- People mutter about nation-building beginning at home : why , many wonder , should american children do worse at reading than polish ones and at maths than lithuanians ?
- 人们开始在家中抱怨国家建设:很多人想知道,为什么美国小孩的阅读水平不如波兰小孩,而且数学成绩不如立陶宛小孩?
- After all , they mutter , if washington could produce fatca and then impose it in an imperial manner on businesses across the world what other capricious surprises loom next ?
- 他们抱怨称,说到底,如果华盛顿可以出台fatca,并以一种专横的方式强迫全世界的企业接受,那么下一个莫名其妙的意外又会是什么?
- Many people in the accounting profession mutter that it would have been wiser for the government to take longer , as many other countries that are better able to make the change have done .
- 会计行业不少人抱怨,因为其它能很好应对(国际财务报告准则)的国家已经完成转变,中国实行更长的过渡期可能更为明智。
- If she feels uncomfortable in any way , she is to mutter out loud the phrase , " I hope I 'm not getting a cold . "
- 只要她感到有一丝不自在,她可以大声咕哝一句话来示警“我希望我不会得感冒。”
- Professional advisers sometimes mutter a damning phrase after first meeting an aspirant chief executive who got a job , along with his dna , from dad " clogs to clogs in three generations " .
- 有时候,在首次与一位不仅从老爸那里得到dna、还从老爸那里得到工作的野心勃勃的首席执行官见面之后,专业顾问会低声咕哝一句:“富不过三代”。