shrill的意思|shrill的解释-里氏词典

Shrill \Shrill\, a. [Compar. {Shriller}; superl. {Shrillest}.]
[OE. shril, schril; akin to LG. schrell, G. schrill. See
{Shrill},v. i.]
Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing
tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces
a sound.

Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused. --Shak.

Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. --Byron.

Shrill \Shrill\, n.
A shrill sound. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Shrill \Shrill\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shrilled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shrilling}.] [OE. schrillen, akin to G. schrillen; cf. AS.
scralletan to resound loudly, Icel. skr["o]lta to jolt, Sw.
skr["a]lla to shrill, Norw. skryla, skr?la. Cf. {Skirl}.]
To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp,
shrill tone; to become shrill.

Break we our pipes, that shrilledloud as lark.
--Spenser.

No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
--Goldsmith.

His voice shrilled with passion. --L. Wallace.

Shrill \Shrill\, v. t.
To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a
shrill sound.

How poor Andromache shrills her dolors forth. --Shak.

Mr Don Cruickshank, the UK telecoms regulator, yesterday ticked Mercury Communications off for being shrill.
The senator from Tennessee recently voiced some shrill criticism of Jackson and Michael Dukakis and party leaders have asked him to stop before things get ugly.
Without one, the Uruguay round will - de facto if not de jure - be dead, and a rash of tit-for-tat trade wars will probably ensue. Hence the shrill noises from France in recent days.
You hear those ear-splitting shrieks at football games, the shrill blasts that beckon home wandering pets, the descending note of surprise, the appreciative wolf whistle.
Rivers, looking like a leather-clad pipe cleaner man, cut through the fog with plaintive soprano scribbling and shrill flight with the flute.
Like her gentlewoman Maria (Tracey Mitchell), she grows shrill in vehement passages, and her grip on the verse slackens. Malvolio (Timothy Davies) owes a great debt to John Cleese, but repays it with interest.
For Milwaukee's Mrs. Phillips, the Kerner report's dire warning that the nation might break apart into two unequal societies lingers like a painful, shrill echo.
The harangues turn shrill occasionally, but the star can pull out of a downward screech before it stops the show cold.
And we hear some shrill comments to the contrary, but in my view, that matter was debated fully.
I again ask you to use your extra hour to reflect on that choice once more, to put aside the shrill sound bites, the slick commercials and the frantic polling and to decide with your common sense and your decency about our common future.
But its foes are shrill.
The academics on his advisory boards are shrill in their opposition.
In a shrill speech, former President Li Xiannian also was quoted as urging a crackdown on a small band of criminals who, he said, were trying to overthrow the rule of the Communist Party.
This shrill indictment of U.S. officialdom and policies also throbbed with understanding for the perpetrators of terrorism, and took a beating both in the ratings and from critics.
Down comes the green line as the great whistle blares forth, a shrill torrent of sound that won't stop.
Ms. White's regal Elinor lacks passion, and Ms. Hartley is stiff and shrill as Constance.
It was because of Scovel and others like him, Ms. Milton argues, that yellow journals such as the World, for all their shrill excesses, were the source of most serious news about Cuba.
On Capitol Hill, Bush accused the Democrats of making anti-drug programs a "shrill political issue" and said congressional Democrats were responsible for a $72 million cut in the Coast Guard budget for drug patrols.

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