喜樂美語
  1. 1

    To make a low, steady, buzzing or humming sound, made by something moving very fast — usually spinning wings or a small machine. Think of a hummingbird's wings, a fan, a camera, a hard drive, an old . The sound is soft and continuous, not sharp: a whirr goes on and on at the same level, and it is usually not loud enough to bother you. It is often a friendly, almost pleasant sound, the sound of something working properly. Used as a verb (the fan whirred all night) and as a noun (the whirr of the machine). You will also see it spelled 'whir', with one r, especially in American writing; both are correct, and the two-r spelling is more common in Britain. English has a family of these sound words — buzz, hum, whirr — and they overlap a lot. Roughly: buzz is rougher and more , hum is lower and smoother, whirr sits between them and always carries the idea of fast spinning. Writers use it a lot; in everyday speech people are more likely to just say 'it was making a noise'.

    （機器、翅膀快速轉動時發出的）嗡嗡聲、呼呼聲；發出嗡嗡聲

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組成An imitation word — it is built to sound like the thing it describes. It came into English from Middle English 'whirren', probably borrowed from Old Norse; compare Danish 'hvirre' and Old Norse 'hvirfla', meaning to whirl or spin. So the idea of spinning was in the word from the very beginning, and the sound meaning grew out of it.

同家族的字

  • whirlsame Old Norse root about spinning round and round; whirl keeps the movement, whirr keeps the sound that movement makes
  • whirlwindbuilt on whirl, from the same spinning root

原始詞典資料7 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。

whirrverb/wɜː/

  • 1

    To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.

  • 2

    To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound.

    • In a city where media companies and hospitals have armed guards, this accessibility is unusual. Inside, drivers sit and chat in between shifts, the overhead fan whirring and causing the dim electric light to flicker over their faces.
  • 3

    To cause (something) to make such a sound.

  • 4

    (of a panther) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented, much like the domestic cat’s purr.

whirrnoun/wɜː/

  • 1

    A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.

    • As Jane turned from the telephone she heard the whirr of a motor. That would be the children coming home from school. The car called for them at the playground every afternoon at five.
    • At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
  • 2

    A bustle of noise and excitement.

  • 3

    The vibrating sound made by a panther in its throat when contented.

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。