muttering的意思|muttering的解释-里氏词典

muttering ['mʌtərɪŋ]

[医] 嗫语

muttering

[ noun ]

a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech

<noun.event>

a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone

<noun.communication>

Mutter \Mut"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Muttered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Muttering}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. L. muttire,
mutire.]
1. To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips
partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or
angry expressions; to grumble; to growl.

Wizards that peep, and that mutter. --Is. viii.
19.

Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare,
And mutter to himself. --Dryden.

2. To sound with a low, rumbling noise.

Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.
--Pope.

She uses her Foncard at a remote call-box, muttering to herself: 'Is this a great country, or what?'
"I saw Ceylan on the floor bleeding and Arikan walking around with a gun in his hand and muttering to himself," Bezgin said.
In 1963, he stopped for a late lunch at a new pizza chain, Pizza Hut, in Hutchinson, and overheard the manager muttering about having to cook pizza sausages when he'd rather be with his softball team.
He sashays around wearing dirty ascots and muttering things like: "If I don't get an aspirin, I shall die."
Some speculate that Mr. Johnson knew he was going to launch a buy-out bid, at the time, and are muttering darkly about filing suit.
Minutes later he re-emerged, again muttering about the numbers on board.
Though some of his conservative opponents have been muttering about this for some time, and would love to catch him out, the dispute cannot be shrugged off as a political vendetta.
They are easy enough to spot: hands thrust firmly into pockets, they pace Moscow's hotel corridors muttering obscenities about the local population and the need to return to 'civilisation'.
Conservative leaders are muttering about running a candidate in 1992 if President Bush doesn't toe their line.
It's no good muttering 'fad' and ordering something else.
Pundits on television have been heard muttering: 'Le mini c'est termine' or 'une chose c'est certaine, le mini est absolument abandonne'. The news need not be as depressing as it sounds.
"Even so-called rational people are going to be hostile," she said. "I've heard a lot of people muttering swear words at me lately.
"University presses live a hand-to-mouth existence, and I think when they see how much money he was able to get from foundations, there will be a fair amount of muttering." The two men haven't been accused of any wrongdoing, stressed Shearson executives.

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