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词汇 hissing
释义 hissing
present participle ofhiss
hiss
verb
uk /hɪs/ us /hɪs/
[ I ]
to make a noise like a long s sound: 发嘶嘶声;发嘘声
Why do snakes hiss?蛇为什么发出嘶嘶声?
The iron was hissing and spluttering.铁块发出嘶嘶声并且火花四溅。
People in the audience were hissing their disapproval.观众们发出嘘声表示不满。
[ T ]
to say something in a quiet angry way: 悄声且生气地说
"Shut up, Tom!" she hissed.“闭嘴,汤姆!”她生气地小声说道。
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Talking angrily

Examples of hissing


hissing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The suspicion figuring in this hissing noise interrupts the process of understanding and thus intervenes in the epistemology of hermeneutics.
All that land resounded with the hissing of the serpents, and in addition there was no small terror to us from them.
The founder's analysis of the political situation which necessitated the new organization is illuminating: 'the yavan-snakes reared on the milk of nonco-operation were provoking riots with their poisonous hissing'.
Hissing reminds us where this dialogue is taking place, and incanted phrases from the male voices are met by gently dropping ones from the female ones, sybillants to the fore.
Meanwhile, the audience is hissing and booing and throwing things at the curtain.
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Its members are intolerant, bigoted, and they are not even prepared to sit and listen without hissing and making animal-type noises.
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All they did was to respond with applause when they agreed with a comment and with hissing when they did not.
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When had finished my turn, would you believe it, that ignorant public harked back to the singer and started hissing and booing.
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Indeed, they were greeted with booing and hissing.
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Secondly, the name is a tongue twister; it is, in fact, a hissing and an abomination.
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At the moment, the feathers are still being plucked, but the hissing is getting considerably louder, even though it is perhaps falling on deaf ears.
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I am worried about some of the rumours about people hissing behind their hands about this and that.
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There is no question but that post-war credits in recent years have provoked a great deal of hissing—indeed, more than is healthy.
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Voltaire said that taxation was the art of plucking a goose to obtain the maximum amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
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Had someone forgotten that some people have to sleep for some hours during the day and that the hissing of steam does not make it easy?
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