单词 | trill |
释义 | trill From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtrilltrill1 /trɪl/ verb [intransitive, transitive]1 SINGSOUNDto make a short repeated high sound birds trilling in the trees The phone trilled sharply.2 HIGH SOUND OR VOICEto say something in a high happy voice that sounds slightly false ‘Have a nice time, darling, ’ she trilled.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpustrill• At five o'clock the phone set on the tailgate of the Range Rover trilled.• In the brush warblers and finches are trilling again; raspberries glisten; the gulls are laughing.• Two hours later I was woken by men whistling, clicking, trilling and hooting their music to the flocks.• The phone on Sam McCready's desk trilled at midday.• The bird had stopped tick-ticking and was trilling away cheerfully.• Johnson was reading a local newspaper he had bought at the Frankenwald service station when his phone trilled discreetly.• A mockingbird trilled from atop a telephone pole.• The telephones in Sly's office complex did not trill, they rang. , Birds Musictrilltrill2 noun [countable]1 technicalAPM a musical sound made by quickly moving between two notes2 HBBSOUNDa short repeated high sound the trill of blackbirdsExamples from the Corpustrill• A trill of song from somewhere outside the trench.• From behind the curtain the tuning-up sounds, trumpet runs, and flute trills, were becoming more clamorous.• From within, I catch the trill of a Pogues song.Origin trill2 (1600-1700) Italian trillo, from trillare “to trill”, probably from Dutch trillen “to shake very quickly” |
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