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chortling

/chawr-tl/US // ˈtʃɔr tl //UK // (ˈtʃɔːtəl) //

叽叽喳喳,欢呼雀跃,欢呼声,欢笑声

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    chor·tled, chor·tling.

    • : to chuckle gleefully.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    chor·tled, chor·tling.

    • : to express with a gleeful chuckle: to chortle one's joy.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a gleeful chuckle.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The glee and chortling that greeted Mr. Smith is a sign of bitterness and a focus on the past rather than the future.

  • But they are chortling about how ham-handed Burson's PR guys were.

  • In the hold, Kerk and Meta had opened some of the crates and were chortling with joy over their lethal contents.

  • Chortling with glee, Charon tottered back to his station and put one hand across the beam of a photo-electric eye.

  • With exceeding generosity he was not eating a grain himself, but scratching and chortling encouragingly.

  • The chortling truck gasped at the curves and tugged on the straightaway, but Robert Fairchild had ceased to hear.

  • The exclamation was caused by the sound of a voice, not in speaking, but in chortling, 54 as if pleased over something.

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