英:[ˈkætəwɔ:l]
美:[ˈkætərwɔl]
英:[ˈkætəwɔ:l]
美:[ˈkætərwɔl]
cat·er·waul
kae tr wawl
复数:caterwauls
第三人称单数:caterwauls
现在分词:caterwauling
过去式:caterwauled
过去分词:caterwauled
caterwauler (n.)
intransitive verb
to make the long, wailing or screeching sounds of a cat in heat.
to quarrel making noises that sound like wailing or screeching.We couldn't sleep with those neighbors caterwauling all night.
noun
a howl of, or like that of, a cat in heat.
"发出令人不愉快的嚎叫或尖叫声",就像发情的猫一样,14世纪晚期, caterwrawen,可能来自低地德语 katerwaulen "像猫一样哭泣",或者是由英语 cater 和中古荷兰语 cater "公猫"以及中古英语 waul "发出嚎叫声"组成的,后者显然来自古英语 *wrag, *wrah "生气",这是一个来源不确定但在某种程度上是模拟声音的词。第一个元素在某些语言中是 cat(n.)。相关词汇: Caterwauled; caterwauling。作为名词出现于1708年。
Middle English caterwawen
The first known use of caterwaul was in the 14th century
caterwaulverb
to make a harsh cry
1 Curious passages take you by surprise, including dancing bursts and a climactic blast of caterwauling brass.
2 Certainly Hooper has made a robust effort, as suggested by all the busy leaping, pirouetting, stretching, caterwauling and meowing.
3 Even the Pokémon noises are gently mellowed out in contrast to the coarser, more caterwauling sounds of the games; here the creatures purr, cry, coo and sigh like docile house pets.
4 According to TV Guide, some "5,000 milling, screaming, caterwauling" partygoers turned out.
5 He also suggested that the air would be rent by the "keening and caterwauling" of "corduroyed luvvies"; it wasn't.
6 The band’s two founding members intertwine their voices, weaving them into jabbing guitar lines that ascend almost as high as Tucker’s beautiful-but-not-pretty caterwaul.
7 There were too many voices, often, though Brand's freewheeling, caterwauling humour always came out on top.
8 In a season of a lively baseball, the Twins hit a silly number of home runs and came caterwauling out of the great north and took their division.
9 Franklin caterwauls as Mary, then resumes serenity as Christ, who asks to see the body.
10 Trump's caterwauling and lies are reaching unbearable decibels.
11 After spending the Trump administration cutting taxes for the wealthy and massively raising military spending, congressional Republicans are back to caterwauling about deficits.
12 What prevented “Sir Simpleton” from a similar fate was Mr. Moran, hammering at a central riff; his bond with Mr. akLaff held firm, and the saxophonists were free to stutter-step and caterwaul around them.
13 This time, it’s a track called “Little Nabil’s March,” a festive stomp in which Braufman’s caterwauling sax is punctuated by over-the-top whistles.
14 Say what you will about "American Idol," but the audience at home can hear Crystal Bowersox caterwauling just as well as Simon Cowell.
15 That said, Shelton’s lyrics are much more darkly relatable and heartbreaking than someone caterwauling about being their own worst enemy.
16 There’s no narrative, no real characters; this writing transmits only on the narrow frequency of garbled caterwauling.
17 Imagine how our limbic systems would react to Ken Burns or a slot machine using a growling bear or caterwauling cougar as the sign of the wild?
18 “At Aunt Ivy’s church, I was asked to leave the children’s choir because of my caterwauling.”
19 Much of the caterwauling over Segel’s casting dissipated when “The End of the Tour” premiered to widespread acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
20 Above the wind tumbled the voices of animals: yips and barks, growls, bleats, caterwauls and roars.
1 叫春
2 叫春声
4 追求
after chase quest pursuit pursuance hanker follow search seek push pursue romance cultivate fuss ensue woo
6 发出叫春声
7 鸣叫
8 吵架
yike row jar upset scrape tangle ruffle brawl maul muss jangle rumpus bust-up split-up set-to brannigan tig rammy fratch miaul fight bend fray wrangle
9 沉缅于色欲
10 号叫