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purr

/pur/US // pɜr //UK // (pɜː) //

呼噜声,咕噜声,咕噜咕噜,呼噜噜

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
    • : to make a sound suggestive of the purring of a cat: The new motor of the car purred.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to express by or as if by purring.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the low, vibrating sound made by a cat by the contracting of the laryngeal muscles and the diaphragm as it breathes.
    • : a sound resembling this.
    • : the act of purring.

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Examples

  • Yet it only takes one turn—whether it’s the jolt of hardpack or the velvety purr of plundering pow—to remember what happiness is.

  • On this week’s episode of Weirdest Thing, we get into the use of real-world animal sounds for creating everything from the purr of an engine to the sci-fi whoosh of a TIE fighter.

  • If there was an Oscar for performances by felines, Inside Llewyn Davis should rightfully have claimed that too, with a purr.

  • “We always have fun,” she confided in her lilting Slovenian purr.

  • Move cautiously and reassuringly and the bear will purr contentedly.

  • She would put her paws on his shoulders, and rub his face, and purr in a most contented manner.

  • Then the room became silent, and I heard her heavy breathing, like the deep purr of a cat.

  • "Back—some time," replied Chester's voice, rising above the low purr of the engine with a note of satisfaction in it.

  • Catching the throbbing purr of the Imp as the car swung in at the driveway Chester jumped up.

  • The scaup came down the sky in dark masses, giving a rippling purr as they flew.