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mutterer

/muht-er/US // ˈmʌt ər //UK // (ˈmʌtə) //

缄默者,缄默的人,叛变者,骗子

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter words indistinctly or in a low tone, often as if talking to oneself; murmur.
    • : to complain murmuringly; grumble.
    • : to make a low, rumbling sound.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter indistinctly or in a low tone: to mutter complaints.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or utterance of a person who mutters.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • As Democrats mutter privately that their Senate majority is sinking beneath the waves, their leadership has sent out an SOS.

  • But when you do so, make sure to mutter the appropriate things about poverty, “the empire,” and the scourge of “neoliberalism.”

  • The theory here seems to be that to mutter about the jews off the record would be perfectly fine.

  • In Germany, die Mutter has been known to graduate from a promising career to welfare to stay with her children.

  • He fired with an accuracy of aim that won him an admiring mutter, although to miss would have been almost as noteworthy.

  • "It's not Joan I've killed at any rate," I heard him mutter as she turned and opened her eyes and smiled faintly up in his face.

  • For all that, an occasional mutter came unheeded to his ears, the closed curtains preserving articulate sounds like room walls.

  • But Richard would cross himself and mutter prayers, calling on every saint to fight against the assailing devils.

  • And he in turn told a story that made men cross themselves and mutter their Glorias.