英:[saʊ]
美:[saʊ]
英:[saʊ]
美:[saʊ]
复数:soughs
第三人称单数:soughs
现在分词:soughing
过去式:soughed
过去分词:soughed
Verb
1. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
"She sowed sunflower seeds"
2. indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure;
"The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"
"The ancient door soughed when opened"
3. introduce into an environment;
"sow suspicion or beliefs"
"发出呻吟或低语声",中古英语 swouen,源自古英语 swogan "发出声音,咆哮,嚎叫,沙沙作响,吹口哨",源自原始日耳曼语 *swoganan(也指古撒克逊语 swogan "沙沙作响",哥特语 gaswogjan "叹息"),源自 PIE 拟声根 *(s)wagh-(类似于希腊语 ēkhō,拉丁语 vagire "哭泣,咆哮,发出声音")。"从16世纪开始几乎只在苏格兰和北方方言中使用,直到19世纪被广泛采用于文学作品" [OED]。相关词汇: Soughed; soughing。名词晚于14世纪出现, swough,意为"急速流动,低语声,低沉的咆哮声",源自动词。
Middle English swoughen, from Old English swōgan; akin to Goth gaswogjan to groan, Lithuanian svagėti to sound
The first known use of sough was before the 12th century
soul1 of 2noun
the spiritual part of a person believed to give life to the body and in many religions thought to live forever
the necessary part of something
a person who leads or stirs others to action : leader
the soul of the campaign
the part of one's personality having to do with feelings and the sense of what is right and wrong
felt my soul rebel against injustice
spiritual force : fervor
person
a kind soul
a strong positive feeling conveyed especially by Black American performers
soul music
soul2 of 2adjective
of or relating to Black Americans or their culture
soul food
designed for or controlled by Black people
soul radio stations
soullessadverb
having no soul or no greatness or nobleness of mind or feeling
soulfuladjective
full of or expressing feeling
soulful music
soulfuladjective
full of or expressing feeling
soulful music
soufflé1 of 2noun
a delicate spongy hot dish lightened in baking by stiffly beaten egg whites
cheese soufflé
soufflé2 of 2adjective
puffed by or in cooking
soufflé omelet
soulfuladjective
full of or expressing feeling
soulful music
soul1 of 2noun
the spiritual part of a person believed to give life to the body and in many religions thought to live forever
the necessary part of something
a person who leads or stirs others to action : leader
the soul of the campaign
the part of one's personality having to do with feelings and the sense of what is right and wrong
felt my soul rebel against injustice
spiritual force : fervor
person
a kind soul
a strong positive feeling conveyed especially by Black American performers
soul music
soul2 of 2adjective
of or relating to Black Americans or their culture
soul food
designed for or controlled by Black people
soul radio stations
sought
soughverb
to make a moaning or sighing sound
1 The Trump administration, he said, has sough to use a wide range of adoptive agencies — including faith-based ones — to certify parents.
2 Often criticized as stiff and aloof, Mr. Romney sough to humanize himself in an effort to appeal to the broad array of undecided voters, many of whom are women.
3 Then she heard the soft, low sounds, the plaintive viols swell, till they became a dull, continuous soughing.
4 At a meeting of chief executives in Manila Wednesday, Obama sough to build momentum toward that still-unfinished agreement, as he prepares to travel to Paris in late November for the deal's long-awaited conclusion.
5 To a human, there was nothing to see or hear or smell—other than the cool beauty of the nook, the soughing of the breeze in the willows, the soft fragrance of a June morning.
6 To hint at the experience of hearing a massive flock of the highly social pigeons, Barksdale layered several calls from different individuals with the sound of wings flapping and wind soughing through trees.
7 Rick Scott sough to purge non-citizens from the state’s voting rolls, leading to lawsuits and counter-suits by citizens who were erroneously disenfranchised.
8 The pines above them soughed in the fresh sea wind.
9 At night, in ominous old Thornfield Hall, the shutters clatter threateningly, and a soughing wind slips through the cracks like a ghost's vengeful moaning.
10 The soughing of the wind through the tops of the pines and the larches and the firs deadened any little scratching sound their snow-shoes may have made as they moved onward.
11 The chevalier reclined in his chair, gulping in stentorous slumber, while Gabrielle sat listening to the saddest sound in the world--the soughing of the winter wind.
12 He scanned the dark house, and tried to sift from the soughing of the wind any sound that might inform him.
13 He has left us, however, a rare and interesting reference to the soughing in the pines on the Adriatic, which shows how well his ear could interpret its solemn beauty.
14 all night long the patient was soughing in her sleep
15 Unions sough a guarantee that self-employed and contract workers will get sick pay if they have to stay home.
16 For the next hour there were no sounds but for a rustle of newsprint and the gentle soughing suck of hot liquid through a small plastic aperture.
17 The soundtrack soughs and swells in step with the slowly moving cameras, occasionally giving way to the music of wind, water and birdsong.
18 There was a continual soughing movement inside the wood, and the leaves rustled together like silk, directly overhead.
19 A Pious Discourse delivered by the Reverend Jabes Branderham, in the Chapel of Gimmerden Sough.
杰别斯·伯兰德罕牧师在吉默吞飕的教堂宣讲的一篇神学论文。
20 With the wind soughing among the firs and rustling through the scanty grass, the place on that bleak shoulder seemed lonely even at night.
3 飒飒声
4 飒飒
5 下水沟
6 沙沙声
murmurous scratch whisper murmur lisp rustle crinkle whispering rustling froufrou whish frication shush frou-frou
8 沼泽地
swampy slack swamp wetland fell dismal glade quagmire marshland swampland everglade fenland currach mickery
9 谣言
rumbling story talk voice wind speech fame rumor rumble buzz grapevine canard scuttlebutt furphy bug in ear