| 词汇 | mumble |
| 释义 | mumble verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈmʌm.bəl/ us /ˈmʌm.bəl/ B2 to speak quietly and in a way that is not clear so that the words are difficult to understand: 含糊地说，咕哝 She mumbled something about being too busy.她嘟囔着说太忙了。 [ + speech ]"I'm sorry," he mumbled.“我很抱歉，”他咕哝道。 to talk to someone talkA group of men were talking in the street. speakCould I speak to you privately? sayI couldn't hear what they were saying. chatWe were just chatting about the party. have a chatWe had a little chat over the garden wall. chatterThey spent the morning chattering away. Ways of talking atonally beg the questionidiom blah blither come out coo pipe up prate sink to a whisperidiom spit something out spluttery stammer stiltedly talk nonsenseidiom talk through your hatidiom tattle turn of phrase undertone wax witter mumble | American Dictionarymumble verb[ I/T ] us/ˈmʌm·bəl/ to speak quietly or in an unclear way so that the words are difficult to understand: [ T ]She mumbled something about needing to be home, then left. [ I ]He often mumbles, and I never know what he’s asking me. Examples of mumblemumble Whenever the singer begins to lament his bad luck or sing in falsetto, or mumble and cry to himself, the reverb comes on. A lot of the producers would be mumbling amongst themselves, trying to find a solution to a problem. At best, they may be permitted to give a static performance and mumble through a few disjointed lines. This method of responding was chosen because prior work in the lab suggested that adult participants often mumbled in speech repetition tasks, making them difficult to comprehend. Some communication difficulties were attributed to the conversational partner mumbling their words or not being able to communicate with a person who has a sensory loss. At the left (probabilistic) choice point, a 'random' decision is made whether the user utters something incomprehensible (a 'mumble' intention) or moves to the next choice point. She mumbled something, repeated it, and the warden gathered that she was looking for her teeth which she thought she had left under the pillow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is regarded as an impertinence to suggest that he cannot be heard from the back row because he is mumbling into his notes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One little child of four recited with a diction which some of us might envy when mumbling our speeches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of them was waving an indecipherable piece of paper at him while at the same time mumbling all sorts of incomprehensible phrases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can hear them mumbling because it is getting through to them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he did, he must have done so in an extraordinarily mumbled way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has been mumbling away since the debate commenced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet we mumble and grumble about the police. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is mumbling and speaking too fast because he does not want us to hear what he is saying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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