sputter 的 3 个定义
- to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.
- to emit particles, sparks, etc., forcibly or explosively, especially accompanied by sputtering sounds.
- to eject particles of saliva, food, etc., from the mouth in a light spray, as when speaking angrily or excitedly.
- to utter or spit out words or sounds explosively or incoherently, as when angry or flustered.
- to emit forcibly and in small particles, as if by spitting: The fire sputtered cinders.
- to eject in small particles explosively and involuntarily, as in excitement.
- to utter explosively and incoherently.
- the act or sound of sputtering.
- explosive, incoherent utterance.
- matter ejected in sputtering.
sputter 近义词
stumble
falter
更多sputter例句
- They continue to sputter up and down, without fully recovering.
- If the only policy tool you allow yourself to use is tax credits, your reform agenda will sputter into ineffectuality.
- Here's one graf: The Woodward reporting has caused the White House spin machine to sputter at a crucial time.
- And racial divisions may become worse if the economy continues to sputter.
- The veranda, roofless and open to the bitter blue sky where the seasonal gu rains sputter, serves as a makeshift neonatal ward.
- She glanced uneasily at Gwynne and fancied she could hear him slam the lid of his breeding upon a supercilious sputter.
- She laughed so hard that she blew the ashes out of her pipe, and they showered down over my face, and made me wink and sputter.
- Welcome worked the requisite levers, the machine began to sputter, and the boys gave it a shove.
- With a wheezy sputter, it stopped dead, refusing to answer the frantic twists Perry gave the handle-bars.
- Then all they'll do is buzz and sputter until the feedback is broken with the key.