A gaggle of schoolgirls followed the tennis star to his car. 一群叽哩呱啦的女学生跟著网球明星到他的车子。
This was true even when a boy had grown up surrounded by an enormous gaggle[4] of non-biological elder brothers. 就算一个男孩成长中周围有一大群嬉笑打闹的非亲哥哥也是如此。
A gaggle of enterprises and NGOs banded together last year to form“ Everyone for Education”, a movement to push for better results. 去年,一些企业和非政府组织联合起来发起一场运动,叫“人人接受教育”,旨在推动建立更好的教育体制。
gaggle
[ noun ]
a flock of geese
<noun.group> [ verb ]
make a noise characteristic of a goose
<verb.communication> Cackling geese
Gaggle \Gag"gle\ (g[a^]g"g'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gaggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gaggling}.] [Of imitative origin; cf. D. gaggelen, gagelen, G. gackeln, gackern, MHG. g[=a]gen, E. giggle, cackle.] To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. --Bacon.
Gaggle \Gag"gle\, n. [Cf. {Gaggle} v. i.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A flock of wild geese, especially when on the ground. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
2. Hence: A gathering of people, especially a noisy one. [PJC]
3. Hence: Any clustered group of related objects. [PJC]
Lids on, they are passed to the gaggle of giggling girls who assemble the orders from both sides of the kitchen and make sure they are never without clothes pegs. Economics are forcing certain changes.
This is the Ponnelle staging which opens with a gaggle of grotesque eunuchs (what is the collective noun?) embroidering tasselled curtains.
The royal demotion also created a gaggle of annoying little expenses and inconveniences for Cartier.
Or was GM's problem both Mr. Smith and a gaggle of yes men around him?
Sailing off into unknown waters with neither steersman nor charts is hardly the most promising set of circumstances, least of all for the gaggle of absolute beginners manning Deutsche Telekom.
The Russians had the most difficulty, with a gaggle of bright young officials eager to express contentious views in remarkably fluent English.
Many would rather lose a gaggle of $90 carts than risk insulting the people who might steal them.
But the pomposity of the piece, joined with a gaggle of lightweight Yankee Doodleisms (from Virgil Thomson, Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa, among others), turns the estimable orchestra and its superb conductor into a Fourth of July picnic band.
No bill to curb assault weapons or regulate handguns is unveiled without a gaggle of lobbyists from police groups to stand behind the sponsors and assure television viewers that the measure is urgently needed to preserve the peace.
They were soon joined by a gaggle of reporters and photographers.
While the gaggle of Lloyd's insurance funds look likely to gain investment trust status, they have little in common with conventional trusts.
Those who attended Spence's star-studded parties or accepted his money said they viewed his peculiarities _ like traveling with a gaggle of security guards and communicating by walkie-talkie _ as the props of a man on the move, Washington-style.