grumbles

英 [ˈɡrʌmblz]

美 [ˈɡrʌmblz]

v.  咕哝; 嘟囔; 发牢骚; 咕隆; 发轰隆声
grumble的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 抱怨；发牢骚
  If someonegrumbles, they complain about something in a bad-tempered way.
  1. I shouldn't grumble about Mum — she's lovely really...
     我不该抱怨妈妈——她真的很好。
  2. Taft grumbled that the law so favored the criminal that trials seemed like a game of chance...
     塔夫脱抱怨法律如此偏袒罪犯，审判看来像是一场碰运气的游戏。
  3. 'This is inconvenient,' he grumbled...
     “这不方便，”他抱怨道。
  4. It's simply not in her nature to grumble.
     怨天尤人根本就不是她的性格。
  5. Grumbleis also a noun.
     
  6. My grumble is with the structure and organisation of the material.
     我所不满的是素材的结构和组织。
• VERB 隆隆作响
  If somethinggrumbles, it makes a low continuous sound.
  1. It was quiet now, the thunder had grumbled away to the west...
     隆隆的雷声向西边传去，现在寂静下来了。
  2. The dogs made a noise, a rough, grumbling sound.
     这些狗发出刺耳的低吼声。
  3. Grumbleis also a noun.
     
  4. One could often hear, far to the east, the grumble of guns.
     人们经常能听到从东边很远的地方传来的隆隆枪炮声。

双语例句

• China has so far taken a pretty relaxed view of the foreigners 'grumbles.
  迄今为止，中国对外国友人的牢骚一直抱着相当宽容的态度。
• In private, the grumbles are more pointed.
  私下的牢骚就更直率了。
• Already you hear grumbles in Europe that the new president has little instinctive sympathy for or understanding of Europeans ( unlike that nice George W. Bush).
  你已经听到了欧洲的牢骚：说新总统对欧洲人缺乏本能的同情和理解（不像可亲的布什总统）。
• Why bother answering your grumbles and nonsense.
  干吗要听你那些牢骚和废话？
• But, Greenpeace grumbles, it is not sufficiently "precautionary" in other areas.
  但是“绿色和平组织”抱怨，诺基亚在其他领域“充分采取预防性措施”做得不够。
• She is the one who grumbles.
  她就是常常发牢骚的那个。
• In Hong Kong, there are growing grumbles from the indigenous Cantonese about the influx of mainland Chinese buyers.
  在香港，土生土长的本地人（主要是广东人）对不断涌入的大陆购房者越来越不满。
• Although no one else took an object off the tray, there were grumbles from the other participants.
  然而大家都没有从托盘上拿走东西，这时就有人开始发牢骚了。
• He is glad of his pay very properly so and justly grumbles ④ when you keep him ten months without it; still, his main notion ⑤ of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them.
  他为自己的薪饷感到高兴&完全合乎情理；假如，你扣发他十个月军饷，他发牢骚理所应当。不过，他的人生主要目标仍然是打胜仗，并非为了薪饷而打胜仗。
• It is a good horse that never stumbles; and a good wife that never grumbles.
  再好的马也会失蹄，再好的妻子也会唠叨。