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To chirrup is to make a short, high sound like a small bird — a chirp, or a quick run of little chirps. People also use it as a name for that sound: a chirrup. It is a variant of chirp, so if you already know chirp, you already know almost all of this. Chirrup can feel a bit more like a string of tiny sounds, and a bit more like a word from a story than from the street. Birds chirrup. Sometimes a person who talks in a high, cheerful, bird-like way is said to chirrup, though that use is less common than chirp. You will see it in writing more than you will hear it in everyday talk; many speakers just say chirp.
（小鳥）吱吱叫、啾啾叫；那樣的叫聲
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chirrupverb/ˈt͡ʃɪɹəp/
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To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks.
- When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!
- Face Eater Cat is a very happy, healthy animal who's found her forever home, and she chirrups along when serenaded with eighties hits. It's a match made in heaven.
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To express by chirping.
- The crickets chirruped their song.
- 'Busy, Max?' chirruped the familiar voice of his friend the inquiry agent—incurably brisk and debonair even after its ten miles' journey along the wire.
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To quicken or animate by chirping.
- to chirrup a horse
chirrupnoun/ˈt͡ʃɪɹəp/
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A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.
- 1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First, And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]
- […] the music flashed by in delirious chirrups and stampings.
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derogatoryA brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement.
- For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange.
- “[…]Children, say ‘thank you’ to Mrs. Samuel Josephs.” Two subdued chirrups: “Thank you, Mrs. Samuel Josephs.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。