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chirrup

/cheer-uhp, chur-/US // ˈtʃɪər əp, ˈtʃɜr- //UK // (ˈtʃɪrəp) //

啁啾声,啁啾声声,啁啾,啁啾的声音

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    chir·ruped, chir·rup·ing.

    • : to chirp: robins chirruping on the lawn.
    • : to make a similar sound: She chirruped softly to encourage the horse.
v.有主动词 verb
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    chir·ruped, chir·rup·ing.

    • : to utter with chirps.
    • : to make a chirping sound to.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act or sound of chirruping: a chirrup of birds.

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Examples

  • It rose again—it was like a perplexing cheep and chirrup, changing to a chortle of glee.

  • Firmly resolved even in that event to force Czar in, I clung closer to him with my knees and gave him a cheery chirrup.

  • The cricket had stopped his chirrup in the kitchen, and no mouse stirred in the slumbering house.

  • A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.

  • "Sparrow-hawks don't sing very sweetly; they chirrup and whistle," Piers interrupted.