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词根:chitter
n.chitchat 聊天;闲谈
vi.chitchat 闲谈
verb
intransitive verb
twitter, chirpalso: chatter
"啾啾叫,鸟鸣声",约1200年,模仿鸟类的叫声。相关词汇: Chittered; chittering。
Middle English chiteren, probably of imitative origin
The first known use of chitter was in the 13th century
1 Sally Humphries, of Llys Nini Animal Centre, Swansea, said: "Most dogs are more in tune with our body language than our constant chitter chatter so it's not that tricky for a deaf dog to learn."
2 Next to her on the rail, Gale the weasel chittered impatiently.
3 And sure: Everyone loves the chittering of Flipper, until … well, Google “male dolphin gangs” — just not on your work computer.
4 “Her laughter was high-pitched like a monkey’s chittering,” Ms. Oates writes.
5 “Hello there, Jessie,” I say as my old friend greets me with a chittering purr.
6 It began to chitter with calls of alarm.
7 ‘Stay there please,’ he said, ‘and no chittering. I is needing to listen only to silence when I is mixing up such a knotty plexicated dream as this.’
8 It lifted its muzzle and chittered at them.
9 Fig chittered, his head bouncing from side to side, following the dancing dots.
10 The pumps chitter away, sucking air from the barrel.
11 A blue jay called; a red squirrel chittered.
12 Her vocal music is cast in a virtuosic, tight counterpoint of coos and chitters, emulating bird calls at one moment, yelping atop a purely musical glissando the next.
13 As they followed after Mr. Viboon, a parrot flew out from the forest, chittering as it glided overhead.
14 The next time you go for a walk, think twice if you overhear a mother squirrel chitter to her baby as you pass by.
15 The pair head into the building to the chitter of camera shutters – they pose for some photos, but it’s not till two small children meet the pope that he seems to come alive.
16 When swifts migrate, chittering clouds of birds circle big school or factory chimneys at dusk and drop into the opening a few at a time in what birdwatchers call a “swiftnado.”
17 He lunged at the Owner, sending the squirrels chittering in all directions.
18 The shadows chittered and hissed around her, a chill making goose bumps prickle her skin.
19 In season one, the Demogorgon used to punch through walls and tree portals, but now members of the Mind Flayer’s evil army are just chittering and squelching around town.
20 That makes cicadas, with their patient underground waiting and their sudden, chittering emergence, an excellent tool — a kind of yardstick that can be used to measure the future or the past.