| 词汇 | muttered |
| 释义 | muttered past simple and past participle ofmutter mutter verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈmʌt.ər/ us /ˈmʌt̬.ɚ/ B2 to speak quietly and in a low voice that is not easy to hear, often when you are worried or complaining about something: 嘟囔，咕哝 Stop muttering and speak up!别咕哝了，大声说出来！ He was muttering (away) to himself.他在喃喃自语。 Laurence muttered something about his wife and left.劳伦斯低声说了他妻子的什么事就离开了。 He muttered something under his breath to the person next to him.他压低声音对他身边的人咕哝了些什么。 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. One guest at the crowded reception was heard to mutter "It's like the Black Hole of Calcutta in here."有人听到拥挤的接待处的一个客人念叨说：“这个地方真像加尔各答黑牢一样闷热。” She was muttering curses as she fumbled for the light switch. 'I didn't know it would be this expensive,' he muttered. Ways of talking atonally beg the questionidiom blah blither chirp come out coo prate spluttery stammer stiltedly sweet nothings talk nonsenseidiom talk through your hatidiom tattle telegrammatic throw your voiceidiom trash turn of phrase witter You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Complaining Examples of mutteredmuttered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. To date, we have muttered good-will noises but have not delivered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He muttered that we did not ask him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that he muttered something about my having missed out the ethnic minorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have pointed out before that we must not have muttered seated interventions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A couple of muttered protests in 13 years is not sufficient and there will have to be a deep investigation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have had muttered information to the effect that the road is already receiving an extremely high priority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The word"aid"has been degraded into charity, so that a blind man's thanks is muttered as a curse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that that was the gist of what he has just muttered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When he was challenged, he muttered about computers and machine tools which, by any definition, are not comparable since one must define the starting point in any of these things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Someone muttered that it was a rumour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They muttered harshly at that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only one person muttered to me in the street that there might be a case for road widening, but he had not really thought about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He muttered "1971" on one occasion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We often hear it muttered about in other areas—the convoy theory, the inner group agreeing to this, that or the other, and the outer group not doing so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His troops gathered in a circle to discuss the challenge and his knights muttered amongst themselves but the king boldly took seven steps forward. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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