bleat
/bleet/US // blit //UK // (bliːt) //
啼哭声,哭声,咩咩叫,咩咩叫声
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Definitions
v.无主动词 verb
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- : to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to give forth with or as if with a bleat: He bleated his objections in a helpless rage.
- : to babble; prate.
n.名词 noun
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- : the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf.
- : any similar sound: the bleat of distant horns.
- : foolish, complaining talk; babble: I listened to their inane bleat all evening.
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Examples
Lying on my back inside the narrow tube, I had swallowed my claustrophobia and let myself be enveloped in darkness and a cacophony of foghorn-like bleats.
The poor child didn't understand why Teacher Thomas should stare so at her, and she let out one long, unending bleat.
Let blue flames rise from the living sulphur and the sheep bleat loud as she feels the touch of the smoking sulphur.
As one company passed, the measured bleat and squeal of the pipes faded and merged into a sound heralding the approach of another.
It was a half-bred Angora kid—the little animal whose bleat we had heard.
A shrill bleat came to our ears—came from the bush on the further side of the hole to us, but still a little way beyond it.
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