還沒爆發的不滿
把遠方雷聲的畫面搬到人身上。抱怨還在低處，還沒攤開來講，但已經聽得到——就像天邊那一陣低響一樣，代表事情正在往這邊來。
noun · C1
Things people are beginning to say that show they are getting annoyed or unhappy, or that show a difficult situation is building up.
不滿的聲音
核心畫面
Picture a low sound rolling in from somewhere else: thunder behind the hills, a heavy truck under the window, a stomach in a silent classroom. It is not loud and it is not sharp — it is deep, and it lasts, and it usually means something is on its way. The word is rumble with -ing on the end, and that ending is doing the work: the sound is still going. English then hands the same picture to people. When a group is unhappy but has not said so openly yet, what you hear first is rumblings.
可以想成一陣從別處滾過來的低沉聲音：山那頭的雷、窗下開過的大車、安靜教室裡的肚子叫。它不大聲，也不尖銳，就是低、而且…更多收起
可以想成一陣從別處滾過來的低沉聲音：山那頭的雷、窗下開過的大車、安靜教室裡的肚子叫。它不大聲，也不尖銳，就是低、而且拖得長，通常還代表有什麼要來了。這個字是 rumble 加 -ing，那個 -ing 正好留住「聲音還在響」的感覺。英文接著把同一個畫面借給人：一群人不高興、但還沒攤開來講的時候，先聽到的就是 rumblings。From the picture
Also in this word
noun · B2
A long, low, rolling sound that goes on for a while, like far-away thunder, a heavy truck passing, 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。
rumblingadj
- 1
Deep- and slow-sounding.
- rumbling discontent
- His rumbling voice suited the solemn occasion.
rumblingnoun
- 1
A muted sound of complaint or discontent (often used in the plural).
- The rumblings of the masses precede the crumbling of the state.
- 2
A deep low noise.
- The rumbling of distant thunder echoed from the hilltop.
- The rumblin' from distant shores sends me to sleep / But the facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream
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。