英:[skri:tʃ]
美:[skritʃ]
英:[skri:tʃ]
美:[skritʃ]
复数:screeches
第三人称单数:screeches
现在分词:screeching
过去式:screeched
过去分词:screeched
screecher (n.)
词根:screech
adj.screechy 声音尖锐的;喜欢尖声喊叫的
n.screeching 尖叫;[动力] 发动机啸声
v.screeching 发出尖利刺耳的声音(screech的ing形式)
noun
a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror
a sound resembling a screech
verb
intransitive verb
to utter a high shrill piercing cry : make an outcry usually in terror or pain
to make a shrill high-pitched sound resembling a screechalso: to move with such a sound
the car screeched to a stop
transitive verb
to utter with or as if with a screech
"尖锐、刺耳的声音呼喊",1570年代,是 scritch(13世纪中期, schrichen)的变形,可能是一个普遍的日耳曼语词(比较古弗里斯兰语 skrichta,荷兰语 schrien),可能最终源于拟声词(比较 shriek)。也比较 screak,"发出尖锐、刺耳的叫声",约1500年,来自古诺尔斯语 skrækja,也可能是拟声的。相关: Screeched; screeching。
关于车轮、门铰链等,"发出尖锐、刺耳的声音",1560年代。Screech-owl 于1590年代被证明是指谷仓猫头鹰(scritch-owl 来自1520年代); 在美国,这个术语适用于小角鸮。这个名字是给那些"尖叫"而不是"呼啸"的猫头鹰。这种叫声被认为是不祥之兆。
Verb alteration of earlier scritch, from Middle English scrichen; akin to Old Norse skrækja to screech
The first known use of screech was in 1560
screech1 of 2noun
a shrill harsh cry usually expressing pain or terror
a sound like a screech
the screech of brakes
screech2 of 2verb
to cry out usually in terror or pain
to make a sound like a screech
the car screeched to a halt
1 My slew of words comes to a screeching stop.
2 Swooper fluttered up from his branch and screeched, “It’s the monster!”
3 The sounds— clashes, clangs, screams, moaning wails, roars of engines, spinning saws, snapping blades, the screech of spikes against the floor, hair-raising pleas for help—it all grew to a crescendo, became unbearable.
4 Beneath the screech of splintering wood, he heard the deep thrum- thump of the Fury's fore catapult.
5 He tried to screech, but since his voice was almost gone, it sounded more like a rustle.
6 Tires screech again, and Momma goes, “Oh my God!”
7 In the midst of the confusion, I saw carloads of white people circling the church and then driving off with screeching tires.
8 Twice he caught his claws in the overhead wire mesh, screeching wildly, letting go, and trying hopelessly again.
9 I hear the screech of a metal chair as it’s pulled across the floor.
10 He heard a screech of brakes and then fell down.
刹车发出的尖锐的声音,然后就摔倒了。
11 By spring, Sairy had grown increasingly agitated by the loud noises of the city, with the screeching trucks and blaring horns and pounding jackhammers.
12 The train jolts and scrapes and screeches back into motion, the little pile of clothes disappears from view and we trundle on towards London, moving at a brisk jogger’s pace.
13 Tires screech as cars swerve to avoid us.
14 The second time, I saw it run out of the woods, screech to a halt, and start eating, just like that roadrunner in the cartoons.
15 Then came the screech and pop of the screen door.
16 I sometimes can’t breathe real well when this happens, but I have to because I need to screech and scream and jerk.
17 I walked by the side of the Mill Pond, which smelled of rotting weeds and fish, gulls clustering above it, screeching at the sea-winds, their cries punctuated by the detonation of artillery.
18 Skuas kept up a screeching clamor, and penguins on the move honked and brayed from the ice for miles around.
19 The children were still thumping and bumping and were now screaming and screeching as well.
20 It was rust-red, and crudely riveted together: great sheets and plates of dented discolored metal that scraped and screeched as they rode over one another.