croaking v. 哇哇叫(croak的现在分词)
- The frogs in the fields were croaking cheerfully.
青蛙在田野起劲地叫着. - Suddenly from out in the yard came a strange croaking noise.
突然,从外面的院子里传来一阵奇怪的嘎嘎声。 - There happened to be no customer in the shop but Jacques Three, of the restless fingers and the croaking voice.
店里碰巧没有顾客,只有那手指老抓挠着、声音低沉的雅克三号。
croaking[ noun ]
a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
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Croak \Croak\ (kr[=o]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Croaked}.
(kr[=o]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Croaking}.] [From the primitive
of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr[aum]chzen
to croak, and to E. creak, crake.]
1. To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a
raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog,
And the hoarse nation croaked. --Pope.
2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to
utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle.