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As an adjective, describing a sound or manner that's harsh and , the kind that rubs you the wrong way — a grating voice, a grating laugh. As a noun, it's a flat frame of metal bars used to cover an opening, like a drain in the street or a vent in a wall.
(形容詞)刺耳的、令人不悅的；(名詞)格柵、鐵柵
組成grate + -ing.
同家族的字
- gratethe base verb — to make a harsh, rough sound, or, in the kitchen, to rub food like cheese into small pieces
原始詞典資料9 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。
gratingadj/ˈɡɹeɪtɪŋ/
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Harsh and unpleasant.
- grating vocals
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Annoying; tending to annoy.
gratingnoun/ˈɡɹeɪtɪŋ/
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A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
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A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
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The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.
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An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
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nauticaltransportThe strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
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The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- If, with these symptoms, are heard gratings of the teeth, irregular appetite, and sudden ebullitions of temper we may reasonably conclude that parasites are irritating the intestines and should be gotten rid of.
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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。