whirring

1. VERB (机器、昆虫翅膀等)发出呼呼声，嗡嗡作响
   When something such as a machine or an insect's wing whirrs, it makes a series of low sounds so quickly that they seem like one continuous sound.
   1. The camera whirred and clicked.
      相机发出嗡嗡声和咔嚓声。
   2. ...the whirring sound of the film projector.
      电影放映机的嗡嗡声
   3. Whirr is also a noun.
      
   4. He could hear the whirr of a vacuum cleaner...
      他能听到真空吸尘器的嗡嗡声。
   5. Whirr, click, whirr, click — step by step the scan probed deeper.
      嗡嗡，咔嗒，嗡嗡，咔嗒——扫描探查一步步地深入。

1. The birds were active, whirring and fluttering among the trees.
   鸟儿们很活跃，在树林中呼呼地飞来飞去。
2. Automatic shut-off devices appeared on whirring machines.
   嗡嗡作响的机器中加装了自动关闭装置。
3. She'd been reading on the lone bench next to an empty laundry bag and a whirring machine, and she'd looked tired.
   当时她坐在洗衣机旁的椅子上看书，身边摆着一只空的洗衣篮，神情略显疲倦。
4. Suddenly she heard a whirring and fluttering noise in the air, and the dwarf said: "Here come my lords the ravens flying home."
   突然，她听到鸟儿拍打翅膀的沙沙响。小矮人儿说：“我的主人们飞回来了！”
5. He'd scarcely spoken the words when he heard a whirring of wings in the air overhead, looked up and saw seven coal-black ravens flying away.
   这话刚出口，就听到头顶有“吧哒吧哒”鸟儿拍打翅膀的声音。他抬头一看，只见空中有七只漆黑漆黑的乌鸦飞过去了。
6. Last year he took a shine to a blue helicopter and flew towards its whirring blades each time it came into land at Jersey airport.
   去年他喜欢上了一架蓝色的直升机，每当飞机着陆在泽西岛机场时，他都会兴冲冲地飞向还在盘旋中的螺旋桨。
7. Two white pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and finally all the birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit around the ashes.
   先飞来的是从厨房窗子进来的两只白鸽，跟着飞来的是两只斑鸠，接着天空中所有的小鸟都叽叽喳喳地拍动着翅膀，飞到了灰堆上。
8. At first it looked like a cross, then it looked like an aeroplane, then it looked like a kite, and at last with a whirring of wings it was right overhead and was an albatross.
   开头看上去像个十字架，后来看上去像架飞机，再后来看上去像个风筝，最后翅膀呼呼地旋转，就飞到头顶上空，原来是只信天翁。
9. The production line is a whirring mass of rollers, wheels and pipes, monitored by men at computer panels.
   生产线上，一组组滚轮、机轮和输送管嗡嗡地运转。工人们在电脑面板前监控着生产线的运转。
10. Some wild ducks flapped their wings and flew off with shrill cries, whirring low over the water.
    几只野鸭扑楞楞飞起，尖声惊叫，掠着水面飞走了。
11. The wings of fortune could be heard whirring over his head.
    可以听到幸福的羽翼在他的头上呼呼地在振响着。
12. The sharp whirring or trilling sound made by some insects and birds, such as the grasshopper and partridge. birds singing, trees falling to the ground.
    颤鸣声，唧唧叫声尖锐的呼声或颤声，由一些昆虫和鸟发出，如蝗虫和鹧鸪鸟鸣声，树倒地声。
13. The bird flew past, its wings whirring.
    那只鸟飞了过去，翅膀发出呼呼的声音。
14. Whirring air conditioners, fuzzy-sounding speakers and nearby noisy lobbies were obscuring his carefully crafted sound effects.
    开枪空调器，模糊测扬声器及附近嘈杂大堂被遮盖了他精心设计音响效果。
15. For example, when you are casting your lure while fishing in the legend of zelda: twilight princess, you can hear the whirring of the line as you flick the controller forward.
    以塞尔达新作为例，在钓鱼游戏中，只要玩家将鱼线甩出去，你就可以听到控制器发出“咝咝”的扯线声。
16. The whirring of the wind in the spokes is the only sound to be heard as women cyclists shoot across the Hsi-Lo Bridge that spans the biggest river mouth on Taiwan's western seaboard.
    当女自行车手们疾驰穿过横跨台湾西部沿海最大河口的西螺大桥（Hsi-LoBridge）时，唯一能听到的就是轮辐里传来的飕飕风声。
17. Large populations of insects, whirring and buzzing through the air.
    大群昆虫在空中飞过，发出嗡嗡的声响。
18. Lin Heung is a rough-and-ready sort of place, with a worn tiled floor, metal spittoons and ceiling fans whirring away.
    莲香楼是个简陋的茶馆，地上是很旧的地砖，摆着铁制的痰盂，屋顶上是呼呼吹着的吊扇。
19. Football players line up in various formations for their plays. A whirring whistle: goal.
    足球队员组成各种阵式踢球。一阵打嘟噜的哨子声，进球了。
20. There was a whirring of machinery.
    有机器发出的嗡嗡声。
21. A whirring whistle: goal.
    一阵打嘟噜的哨子声，进球了。
22. A high-pitched whirring sound begins, and a mechanized double-pronged probe pushes itself into his nose.
    一阵高频的呼呼声开始响起，一个机械的双分叉头的探针被推进了他的鼻子。
23. With the blades whirring, pour in juice or water to make the consistency you like.
    同时可添加果汁或者水，调节浓稠度。
24. The forecasts have not changed since January: a reassuring consistency. That suggests that the economic machine is whirring away as it should.
    这些预测自1月以来没有变过，展现一种令人安心的一致性，似乎表明经济机器正在按照应有的节奏运转。
25. A whirring sound was heard in the air, and twelve ravens approached, landing together.
    空中传来了一阵呼啦呼啦的声音，十二只乌鸦飞到这里落了下来。
26. Since the publication of The Good Earth, scarce attention has been paid to the detail of a flock of crows whirring and cawing over the head of Wang Long, the protagonist.
    飞旋在主人公王龙头顶上的乌鸦这一细节自《大地》问世以来很少引起人们的关注。
27. When we got inside the factory, we couldn't hear the guide explain because of the whirring of the motors.
    当我们进入工厂内时，因为马达呼呼地转动，使我们听不见向导的解说。
28. The third New Russian starts shaking uncontrollably, emitting whirring noises.
    第三位新派俄罗斯人开始控制不住地摇晃起来，并发出呼呼的声音。

noun

1. sound of something in rapid motion
   1. whir of a bird's wings
   2. the whir of the propellers

   Synonym:    whirwhirrbirr

adj

1. like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings