grumbles

英 [ˈɡrʌmblz] 美 [ˈɡrʌmblz]

v.  咕哝; 嘟囔; 发牢骚; 咕隆; 发轰隆声
grumble的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

  1. VERB 抱怨；发牢骚
    If someone grumbles, they complain about something in a bad-tempered way.
    1. I shouldn't grumble about Mum — she's lovely really...
      我不该抱怨妈妈——她真的很好。
    2. Taft grumbled that the law so favored the criminal that trials seemed like a game of chance...
      塔夫脱抱怨法律如此偏袒罪犯，审判看来像是一场碰运气的游戏。
    3. 'This is inconvenient,' he grumbled...
      “这不方便，”他抱怨道。
    4. It's simply not in her nature to grumble.
      怨天尤人根本就不是她的性格。
    5. Grumble is also a noun.
    6. My grumble is with the structure and organisation of the material.
      我所不满的是素材的结构和组织。
  2. VERB 隆隆作响
    If something grumbles, it makes a low continuous sound.
    1. It was quiet now, the thunder had grumbled away to the west...
      隆隆的雷声向西边传去，现在寂静下来了。
    2. The dogs made a noise, a rough, grumbling sound.
      这些狗发出刺耳的低吼声。
    3. Grumble is also a noun.
    4. One could often hear, far to the east, the grumble of guns.
      人们经常能听到从东边很远的地方传来的隆隆枪炮声。
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双语例句

  1. Grumbles are heard all round.
    怨言四起。
  2. Take your grumbles to the boss, not to me.
    你有牢骚对老板去说，不要对我说。
  3. He is glad of his pay very properly so and justly grumbles ④ when you keep him ten months without it; still, his main notion ⑤ of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them.
    他为自己的薪饷感到高兴&完全合乎情理；假如，你扣发他十个月军饷，他发牢骚理所应当。不过，他的人生主要目标仍然是打胜仗，并非为了薪饷而打胜仗。
  4. Overtime and a wide mismatch between low salaries and high housing costs were also grumbles.
    员工们的抱怨还有加班和低工资与高房价间的巨大差距。
  5. She always grumbles to me about how badly treated at work.
    她总是向我抱怨她在工作中如何被亏待。
  6. But, Greenpeace grumbles, it is not sufficiently "precautionary" in other areas.
    但是“绿色和平组织”抱怨，诺基亚在其他领域“充分采取预防性措施”做得不够。
  7. Eat a good meal before you go to prevent tummy grumbles while you chat.
    去之前还要吃好饭，以免与雇主交谈时你的肚子饿得咕咕叫。
  8. It is a good horse that never stumbles; and a good wife that never grumbles.
    再好的马也会失蹄，再好的妻子也会唠叨。
  9. I have a few grumbles regarding what was said.
    我对刚才所说的有一点怨言。
  10. In Hong Kong, there are growing grumbles from the indigenous Cantonese about the influx of mainland Chinese buyers.
    在香港，土生土长的本地人（主要是广东人）对不断涌入的大陆购房者越来越不满。
  11. But although there were grumbles about its competence, the TSE retained its dominant position in the Japanese market.
    不过，尽管市场对其能力多有抱怨之声，但东京证交所在日本市场仍保持着主导地位。
  12. China has so far taken a pretty relaxed view of the foreigners 'grumbles.
    迄今为止，中国对外国友人的牢骚一直抱着相当宽容的态度。
  13. If I hear any more grumbles about the food, you can learn to cook yourself.
    如果再让我听见对食物的抱怨，你可以自己去学烹饪了。
  14. She's tired of your unending grumbles.
    她厌倦了你那无休止的抱怨。
  15. "Beit Jala has lost half its land, central Bethlehem has lost a quarter, and Beit Sahour a third," grumbles one resident& a fair summary of recent changes in the city's boundaries.
    一位当地住民抱怨，“比特杰拉已经失去了一般土地，伯利恒中心区失去了四分之一，拜特萨霍也丢了三分之一”，这是最近城市边界变化公平的总结。
  16. Often when a man grumbles he is in the process of saying yes to your request.
    有时，男人抱怨是因他正想答应你的要求。
  17. A Dutch friend of mine describes a meeting in which 10 Dutch executives speak English to accommodate a single Briton-who, my friend grumbles, sits there feeling superior.
    一位荷兰朋友跟我提起一次会议的情形：会上有10位荷兰高管，为了一位英国人，大家不得不讲英语。我这位朋友抱怨道，那个英国人带着优越感坐在那儿。
  18. Grumbles by institutional investors give regulators more excuse to get involved.
    机构投资者们喋喋不休的抱怨给了监管层更多的借口以介入暗盘交易。
  19. Japanese business folk in China are not short of grumbles these days, what with the unpredictable officialdom, congested roads, soaring prices and thickening smog.
    在华日本商界人士近来一直在抱怨中国难以捉摸的官僚、拥堵的道路、飞涨的物价和越来越污浊的空气。
  20. She is the one who grumbles.
    她就是常常发牢骚的那个。
  21. Germans moan about a dearth of engineers; Boeing grumbles about capacity constraints in the supply chain.
    德国在抱怨工程师短缺；波音（boeing）则抱怨供应链产能有限。
  22. Why bother answering your grumbles and nonsense.
    干吗要听你那些牢骚和废话？
  23. But its efforts to expand have led to grumbles in Europe about subsidies and a backlash in America against its opacity.
    但该公司在努力扩大规模这让欧洲方面有所怨言，称其存在不正常补贴；而美国也指责华为“不透明”。
  24. I'm in the non-profit sector, grumbles one manager.
    我所在的是一个非盈利的部门一位经理抱怨道。
  25. It is a good wife that never grumbles.
    再好的妻子也唠叨。
  26. Although no one else took an object off the tray, there were grumbles from the other participants.
    然而大家都没有从托盘上拿走东西，这时就有人开始发牢骚了。
  27. Yet the more cosmetic Olympic measures have also prompted grumbles from residents of a city that in many places lacks safe drinking water and effective sanitation.
    然而，在这个许多地方缺乏安全饮用水和有效卫生设施的城市，为举办奥运会所做的美化措施也引起了一些市民的不满。
  28. In private, the grumbles are more pointed.
    私下的牢骚就更直率了。
  29. Already you hear grumbles in Europe that the new president has little instinctive sympathy for or understanding of Europeans ( unlike that nice George W. Bush).
    你已经听到了欧洲的牢骚：说新总统对欧洲人缺乏本能的同情和理解（不像可亲的布什总统）。
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