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To clack is to make a short, hard sound that often keeps repeating — not a soft tap and not a deep bang. Heels on a hard floor, beads, an old typewriter, a train on the rails: those can clack. The word is also a noun for the sound itself. Next to everyday click or rattle it can feel a little old or ; click is usually one lighter, sharper sound, while clack is harder and more continuous. It is old sound-talk in English, from Middle English clacken, from an Old English verb *clacian (to slap, clap, clack), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (to clap, chirp).
喀喀作響;喀喀聲
組成From Middle English clacken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). The English word is imitating the noise.
原始詞典資料10 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。
Clackname
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A surname.
clacknoun/klæk/
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An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
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Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
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Chatter; prattle.
- whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack
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The tongue.
clackverb/klæk/
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To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
- We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
- [He] walked quite jauntily across the courtyard to the distant door, his sandals clacking against the marble.
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To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
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To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
- There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings
- The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.
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To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。