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词汇 hooting
释义 hooting
present participle ofhoot
hoot
verb
uk /huːt/ us /huːt/
[ I or T ]
to make a short loud high sound: 发出短促响亮的声音
hoot your horn atShe hooted her horn at the dog in the road.她向路中间的那条狗大声按喇叭。
hoot withHe hooted with laughter.他哈哈大笑。
[ I ]
to make the sound that an owl makes发出猫头鹰般的叫声
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Examples of hooting


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


Do we challenge each other's identity as 'scientists' of various stripes in hooting contests typical of intellectuals?
Hooting is either necessary in the interests of public safety or it is not.
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With the night shadows and the country noises, such as owls hooting, they had fled.
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Then people behind get angry and start hooting and everybody gets bad-tempered.
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If they are not taken, the hooting driver remains dangerous.
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There is any amount of experience abroad to show that, if you prohibit hooting, you increase public safety, in addition to contributing to the amenities.
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Thirdly—and this is a point which is generally overlooked—the more excessive hooting is permitted, the more careless does the pedestrian become.
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There was a queue of cars behind him, the drivers of which, needless to say, were all hooting furiously.
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In some residential areas there are intersecting roads and drivers of this type go at great speed at night hooting at every cross road.
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I do not like the hooting which one now finds going on, nor the flashing of lights.
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It went on hooting so that nobody on the station could possibly hear the announcement.
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We did not want to put in the other old section also, because that rather cuts across the regulation as regards not hooting at night.
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Those who live in political life live too close to the woods to be frightened by the hooting of owls.
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I did not enjoy the spectacle of the laughter and hooting during the debate.
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But either hooting is essential to avert accidents or it is not.
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