hiccup 的 2 个定义
- a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- Usually hiccups. the condition of having such spasms: She got the hiccups just as she began to speak.
- Informal. a minor difficulty, interruption, setback, etc.: a hiccup in the stock market.
hic·cuped or hic·cupped, hic·cup·ing or hic·cup·ping.
- to make the sound of a hiccup: The motor hiccuped as it started.
- to have the hiccups.
- Informal. to experience a temporary decline, setback, interruption, etc.: There was general alarm when the economy hiccuped.
hiccup 近义词
diaphragm spasms
更多hiccup例句
- Still, the most recent hiccups in Facebook’s political ad system shows that some — from academics to presidential campaigns — remain concerned about the company’s transparency efforts.
- Most of those hiccups happen when you’re trying to multitask.
- Every hiccup and anomaly in how elections are run seems to give partisans at either end of the political spectrum a reason to accuse opponents of misdeeds.
- The virtual hearing about the tech industry ended up being marred by tech hiccups.
- Through it all, we experienced many successes and , of course, several hiccups along the way.
- At the time, I called it a hiccup rather than a heart attack.
- So, yeah, it was a very big hiccup—one sufficiently large to jolt the heart from its regular beat.
- But the challenge of acting in a major franchise was just a hiccup when compared to the challenge of acting in front of the press.
- Not that Kiev and U.S. counter-propaganda goes through without a hiccup.
- But I am guessing this is going to be a hiccup in his career.
- Her face was bowed forward and covered with her hands, and she was shaken at intervals by the convulsive hiccup of grief.
- But he had no relief from laughter either, for it was the same he had just heard from the Sydney Duck, a sort of hiccup.
- Lady Tabby Catson died soon after, leaving a handsome legacy to Mr. Hiccup, the surgeon.
- Hullo, you young vaggybones,” he screeched out with a hiccup; “where be ye off ter now, hey?
- She had meant to be such a good queen, she thought with a little choking hiccup.