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skirling

/skur-ling/US // ˈskɜr lɪŋ //

滑行,溜须拍马,绕行,溜冰

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Scot. and North England.

    • : the act of shrieking.

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Examples

  • He did not imagine he would hear these skirling pipers again.

  • She played absent-mindedly, her fingers skipping and skirling on the notes.

  • He heard the bagpipes of the Highlanders skirling behind as he reached the opening in the forest.

  • But whaur Tam hung there was naething but the craig, and the sea below, and the solans skirling and flying.

  • And there would be a fiddler diddling his elbock in the chimney-side; and this thing had nae music but the skirling of the solans.

  • There was more skirling of bells, another nerve-trying wait, and at last the clerk of the hotel answered.