| 词汇 | cluck |
| 释义 | cluck verb uk /klʌk/ us /klʌk/ [ I ] to make the low, interrupted noise that a chicken makes（鸡）咯咯叫 [ I or T ]informal to express disapproval or other emotion by making a short, sharp sound with your tongue: 咂舌，发出啧啧声（表示不赞成等情绪） cluck into cluck in disapproval/amazement发出不满的／惊异的啧啧声 She shakes her head, smiles, and clucks her tongue.她摇摇头，笑了笑，咂咂舌。 [ I ]informal to express an unnecessary amount of sympathy, worry, or approval towards someone: 大惊小怪 cluck overThe attendants clucked and fussed over passengers.乘务员对乘客咋咋呼呼、大惊小怪。 Animal (non-human) sounds baa barky bleat buzzy caterwauling chatter cockcrow coo honk miaow moo peep purr quack squeak trill trumpet tu-whit tu-whoo warble whinny You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Disapproving & criticizing Exaggerating & playing down cluck | American Dictionarycluck verb[ I/T ] us/klʌk/ to make a sound like a chicken Examples of cluckcluck During courtship and copulation, the male makes clucking sounds very much like those of a chicken, with a set pattern in pitches of the clucking sounds. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Certain verbal noises, such as clucks, can be used as cues to encourage the horse to move forward, or soothing noises can calm an upset or nervous animal. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Why is there all this cluck about the colour of people's skins? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tribunal can listen, cluck with sympathy and agree with the parents, but it cannot take any action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All he did was to cluck at us that there were difficulties in the way, that there were practical difficulties, and that he hoped the voluntary organisations would go on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has several other calls as well, and can cluck, similar to the hen. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many social animals produce seemingly haphazard and indistinct sounds (like chicken cluck) when they are going about their everyday business (foraging, feeding). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many social animals produce seemingly haphazard and indistinctive sounds (like chicken cluck) when they are going about their everyday business (foraging, feeding). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The display is composed of coaxing, cluck-like calls and eye-catching bobbing and twitching motions of the head and neck. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Hissing cluck heard by females, and wing-clapping by male during nest defence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Females cluck slightly while offering food to their young. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Before hatching, the hen can hear the chicks peeping inside the eggs, and will gently cluck to stimulate them to break out of their shells. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To signal friendly or submissive behavior, alpacas cluck, or click a sound possibly generated by suction on the soft palate, or possibly in the nasal cavity. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We see this readily, for example, in his casual attribution of joy to the rhythmically clucking hen. In fact, even a duckling raised by a farmyard hen goes" quack", rather than" cluck", maybe occasioning some degree of confusion in the hen house! See all examples of cluck 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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