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rattling

/rat-ling/US // ˈræt lɪŋ //UK // (ˈrætlɪŋ) //

嘎吱嘎吱,嘎嘎作响,嘎啦嘎啦,嘎啦啦

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : that rattles: a rattling door.
    • : remarkably good, lively, or fast: a rattling talk; a rattling gallop.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : very: a rattling good time.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdisconcert, upset someone

Examples

  • That’s a little rattling for someone who considers himself to be smarter, savvier, and much more together than Cassie.

  • This was in 1964, and Hawking is now 72, and still rattling the cosmos.

  • “At that moment it was new and understandably rattling to him,” Condon says.

  • The concrete building from which the sounds emanate shakes from the impact, rattling the colorful houses on the dirt roads nearby.

  • The serial number was right,” he later said, rattling off, “20314261.

  • In time we will know if this was nothing more than sabre rattling or an all out war for control of the GOP.

  • Mrs. Towne has every thing so delicious, Sue was rattling on; such perfumes and such silks and such jewels.

  • More boats and smacks arrive; the rattling of anchors and chain cables is heard in all directions.

  • They have put her in the hood, and the next instant they are rattling away to the Panthéon for supper.

  • There was a ceaseless chorus of distant machinery, and above it rose the grinding and rattling solo of a steam winch.

  • Lamb stopped rattling the coins in his pocket suggestively, kept them there, and strolled toward the main entrance.