grunt是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)grunt work单调乏味的苦差使；打杂的工作；繁重工作

双语例句

(1)My father struggled over the railing to buy oranges, grunting with fatigue.

父亲费力地翻过栏杆去买橘子，累得直哼哼。

(2)After eating, the pig went back to the pen and grunted.

这头猪吃完东西就回到猪圈发出了呼噜声。

(3)The grunt of the pig woke the sleeping child in the cradle.

猪的呼噜声吵醒了摇篮里睡着的小孩子。

(4)Dissatisfied with the service of the restaurant, he gives a grunt.

他不满意饭店的服务 咕哝了一声

(5)Clive made a noise, something like a grunt.

克莱夫发出了一阵噪声，有点像呼噜声。

(6)It was not an unfriendly grunt, but it was a grunt.

这不是不友好的咕哝，但它是一声咕哝。

(7)"Tha' might sing th' Doxology," he suggested in his dryest grunt.

“你或许该唱唱赞美诗。”他用干嗓子咕哝着建议说。

(8)I grunt once in a while, so he knows I'm awake, and then I tell him how great it was when it's over.

我偶尔咕哝一声，让他知道我醒了，然后我告诉他一切都结束了有多棒。

(9)Manners are also a problem; one firm cited applicants who show up for an interview in "scruffy tracksuit bottoms and trainers, and grunt."

礼仪也是个问题；一家公司提到了那些穿着“邋遢的运动裤和运动鞋，发出咕哝声”来面试的应聘者。

同义词

n. 咕哝；呼噜声

vi. 作呼噜声；发哼声

同根词

词根 grunt

(1)grunter n. 猪；作猪哼者

释义

v.

(of an animal, especially a pig)make a low, short guttural sound

（动物，尤指猪）发出呼噜声。

(of a person)make a low inarticulate sound resembling this, typically to express effort or indicate assent

（人）发出咕噜声，发出哼声（通常表示用力或赞同）

Graham grunted and heaved as he helped the masons fit a huge slab of stone into place.

格雷厄姆在帮石匠上一块大石板时因为用力而发出一声闷哼。

n.

a low, short guttural sound made by an animal or a person

（动物或人发出的）呼噜声，哼哼声。

informal, chiefly N. Amer. a low-ranking or unskilled soldier or other worker

〈非 正式，主北美〉 普通士兵；普通工作人员

he went from grunt to senior executive vice-president in less than five years

不到五年他便从一名普通工作人员升至高级执行副总裁

[as modifier]grunt work.

普通工作。[ORIGIN: alteration of ground, from ground man (with reference to unskilled railway work before progressing to lineman).]

[mass noun]informal power, especially that of a motor vehicle

〈非正式〉 （尤指机动车辆的）动力

what the big wagon needs is grunt, and the turbo does the business.

大货车需要的是动力，而提供动力的是涡轮机。

an edible shoaling fish of tropical inshore waters and coral reefs, able to make a loud noise by grinding its teeth and amplifying the sound in the swim bladder

石鲈鱼。

类似拼写词

grunt v. 发出呼噜声；发出咕噜声；发出哼声

grant v. 准予；授予；同意；承认

词源

"Old English grunnettan, of Germanic origin and related to German grunzen； probably originally imitative．"

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0%; v/n 嘟囔; 哼唧

考纲释义

( 1)v/n. 嘟囔; 哼唧

英文释义：make a low rough noise

(1)Is qochbe' spelled with a gargling or a guttural grunt?

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