bleat的意思

bleat

英式音标[blit]
美式英标[bliːt]

基本解释

vi. 咩咩叫；胡扯；抱怨

vt. 咩咩地叫；愚蠢地讲

n. 咩咩叫声

bleat 羊叫

拟声词。

bleat (v.): Old English blætan, from West Germanic *bhle- (source also of Dutch blaten "to bleat"), of imitative origin (compare Greek blekhe "a bleating; the wailing of children," Old Church Slavonic blejat "to bleat," Latin flere "to weep"). Related: Bleated; bleating.
bleat (n.): c. 1500, from bleat (v.).

2. She wanted to scream, but all that would come out was this faint bleat.: 她想尖叫，但最终只是发出了这么微弱的呻吟。