喜樂美語

核心畫面

A low sound that rolls on underneath everything else and never quite stops — thunder behind the hills, an engine two floors down. It is too quiet to interrupt anyone, and too steady to ignore.

grumbling 可以想成一種一直在背景裡滾動的低音：山後面的悶雷，或樓下兩層的機器聲。它小到不會打斷任何人，卻又…更多收起grumbling 可以想成一種一直在背景裡滾動的低音：山後面的悶雷，或樓下兩層的機器聲。它小到不會打斷任何人，卻又穩定到你沒辦法真的當作沒聽見。把這個聲音放在心裡，這個字的兩個意思就接得起來了——因為人心裡不高興、嘴上嘀嘀咕咕的時候，發出來的正好就是這種聲音。

From the picture

人嘴裡發出來的那個聲音

這一家不是另一個聲音，而是同一個聲音換了發出的來源。當抱怨的人壓低嗓子、一句接一句念個不停，那個音量和節奏跟遠方的悶雷幾乎一樣：低、連續、不爆發。英文就用同一個字把兩者收在一起。

noun · B2

Complaining: the quiet, unhappy talk people make when they are annoyed about something. It is usually small and continuous rather than an open, official complaint.

抱怨／牢騷

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noun · C1

A low sound that rolls on and on without stopping — like thunder a long way off, an engine under the floor, or an empty stomach.

隆隆聲

原始詞典資料4 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。

grumblingnoun

  • 1

    complaining

    • the grumblings of a bad-tempered man
    • For having submitted my ears to Acutilius for several days (and I think you know his style), I should scarcely have regarded it as a hardship to write you a letter describing his grumblings after patiently enduring the bore (and it was rather a bore, I can tell you) of hearing them.
  • 2

    rumbling

grumblingadj

    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。