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单词 gurgle
释义
gurgle1 verbgurgle2 noun
gurglegur‧gle1 /ˈɡɜːɡəl $ ˈɡɜːr-/ verb [intransitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINgurgle
Origin:
1500-1600 Probably from the sound
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
gurgle
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theygurgle
he, she, itgurgles
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theygurgled
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave gurgled
he, she, ithas gurgled
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad gurgled
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill gurgle
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have gurgled
Continuous Form
PresentIam gurgling
he, she, itis gurgling
you, we, theyare gurgling
PastI, he, she, itwas gurgling
you, we, theywere gurgling
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been gurgling
he, she, ithas been gurgling
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been gurgling
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be gurgling
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been gurgling
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The pipes in the attic gurgle in the night and keep me awake.
  • The washing machine gurgled as it changed cycles.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He looked at the beer, gurgling away.
  • Painted in sunburst yellow, it has a huge engine gurgling inside.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsounds made by liquids or something wet
the sound that a liquid makes when it falls from a height, hits something hard, or is moved rapidly around: · There was a splash behind the boat as a large silver fish jumped out of the water.· Judging from the shouts and splashes coming from the pool, everyone was having a lot of fun. fall/land etc with a splash: · Ashlee fell into the river with a loud splash.
British to make a sound like someone walking in soft, wet mud, or to move somewhere making this sound: · It had been raining hard and my boots squelched as I walked across the park.squelch along/past/through etc: · Ankle deep in mud, we squelched across the meadow.squelch around: · Melvin was squelching around in the yard outside the cowshed.
if something such as a stream gurgles , it makes a low irregular sound like water flowing through a pipe: · The pipes in the attic gurgle in the night and keep me awake.· The washing machine gurgled as it changed cycles.
to make a sound like something solid falling directly into water: plop into/onto etc: · Noah threw a stone high into the air and it plopped into the river.· Several letters plopped onto the doormat.
to make the continuous repeated sound that is made, for example, by water boiling: · A large saucepan of soup was bubbling on the stove.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a noise with a particular kind of sound)· The water moved through the pipes with a loud gurgling noise.
1if water gurgles, it flows along gently with a pleasant low sound SYN  burble:  We could hear the stream gurgling down in the valley.2if a baby gurgles, it makes a happy low sound in its throat
gurgle1 verbgurgle2 noun
gurglegurgle2 noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Somewhere nearby there was the gentle gurgle of a stream.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He did, on a frothy gurgle of blood.
  • I tried to wait, expecting him to respond with a gurgle or a chortle.
  • Mavis heard the river; she heard the mill stacks hissing in the night, the gurgle of the aeration ponds.
  • The squawking continued for a moment before dying out in a final gurgle as Rev. Levitt recited the prescribed blessing.
  • There is not even a gurgle.
Thesaurus
THESAURUSmade by a liquid
the sound that a liquid makes when something hits it, or when it hits against another thing: · She jumped into the pool with a big splash.· the splash of the waves against the rocks
the low sound that water makes when it flows gently over or through something: · the gurgle of a stream· She listened to the gurgle as the water drained out of the bath.
the sudden short sound when something is dropped into a liquid: · Kate dropped the ice into her glass with a plop.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a noise with a particular kind of sound)· The water moved through the pipes with a loud gurgling noise.
1the happy low sound that someone makes in their throat:  a gurgle of laughter see thesaurus at sound2the pleasant low sound of water moving along gently
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