| 词汇 | clucking |
| 释义 | clucking present participle ofcluck 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） to 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 The 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 cheep cockcrow coo honk miaow moo purr quack roar 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 Examples of cluckingclucking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. We see this readily, for example, in his casual attribution of joy to the rhythmically clucking hen. The clucking of a hen will indicate the very same joy from one hen to another, a concordance of experience made possible by all hens' comparable physiological structures. He makes a sort of clucking noise of disagreement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard tonight the clucking noises of distaste for the worst excesses of the régime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the intruder is caught, which rarely happens, a fight will occur, which is accompanied by soft clucking, hoarse barking, and a type of roar. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The male then scrambled onto the female's back and copulated, which was then followed by soft clucking and occasionally more preening. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When red foxes draw close together, they emit trisyllabic greeting warbles similar to the clucking of chickens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Most often, the act includes a clucking vocalization, commonly known as dooking. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Feeding birds may give a low conversational clucking. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The song is based upon different twangy, up-and-down vocal hooks and has banjos clucking alongside new wave electric guitars. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It uses clucking sounds to maintain auditory contact with other members of its group. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The instrumentation consisted of clucking banjos alongside new wave electric guitars. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is often accompanied by a soft clucking noise, commonly referred to as dooking. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She is very sweet and makes weird clucking noises resembling a chicken (hence her name). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He replaced the lyrics with chicken clucking, and used a variety of background musical arrangements. 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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