英语词汇“bray”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bray1

/breɪ

noun

1The loud, harsh cry of a donkey or mule: the mule uttered its insane bray...

The donkey emitted a laugh-like bray.
Rippling amongst the voices were the sounds of horses and dogs and the occasional bray of a donkey, the clank and scrape of metal, the clang of forges working hard to repair damages and the low, mellow crackle of fires.
No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar.

1.1A sound, voice, or laugh resembling a bray: he recognized the loud bray of the doctor...

He had a bray of a laugh which he exercised at the most inappropriate times.
Dori's airhorn had a decidedly different tone than Devon's, and the resulting sound was a bray that was both loud and atonal.
The latter, a boisterous Jersey boy, has a motor mouth and often punctuates his sentences with an infectious bray of loud laughter.

verb [no object]

1(Of a donkey or mule) utter a bray: the donkey brayed and kicked...

Astley recorded the pastoral sounds of an Oxfordshire Sunday in summer - birds singing, bells ringing, donkeys braying, gates creaking - to accompany her piano-and-flute soundtrack of a day's journey into night.
Donkeys brayed to one another across threshing floors of harvested wheat.
The tractor roared, the donkey brayed and the water thundered by - it was a diabolical din.

Synonyms

neigh, whinny, hee-haw

rare hinny

1.1(Of a person) speak or laugh loudly and harshly: he brayed with laughter [with direct speech]: ‘Leave!’ brayed a voice behind her...

His smiles almost never touch his lips, except when he is braying with laughter or doing something much more intimate.
In fact, people are already braying for a saviour.
Fired by much wine and a weariness with the visitor's braying, these words (or something very much like them) tumbled unbidden from the Professor's lips.

Synonyms

roar, bellow, trumpet

Origin

Middle English: from Old French brait 'a shriek', braire 'to cry' (the original senses in English), perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin.

Rhymes

bray2

/breɪ

verb [with object] archaic

Pound or crush (something) to small pieces, typically with a pestle and mortar: the kernels of this fruit the Arabs bray in a mortar...

He was like that: he'd just bray somebody for no reason.
He said: ‘The next thing I saw was two lads being brayed.’
The dust is then sifted, the residue is brayed again; refractory stalks are burned to ashes, and this is mixed with the snuff.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French breier, of Germanic origin; related to break¹.

单词	bray
释义	bray1 /breɪ / noun 1The loud, harsh cry of a donkey or mule: the mule uttered its insane bray... The donkey emitted a laugh-like bray. Rippling amongst the voices were the sounds of horses and dogs and the occasional bray of a donkey, the clank and scrape of metal, the clang of forges working hard to repair damages and the low, mellow crackle of fires. No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar. 1.1A sound, voice, or laugh resembling a bray: he recognized the loud bray of the doctor... He had a bray of a laugh which he exercised at the most inappropriate times. Dori's airhorn had a decidedly different tone than Devon's, and the resulting sound was a bray that was both loud and atonal. The latter, a boisterous Jersey boy, has a motor mouth and often punctuates his sentences with an infectious bray of loud laughter. verb [no object] 1(Of a donkey or mule) utter a bray: the donkey brayed and kicked... Astley recorded the pastoral sounds of an Oxfordshire Sunday in summer - birds singing, bells ringing, donkeys braying, gates creaking - to accompany her piano-and-flute soundtrack of a day's journey into night. Donkeys brayed to one another across threshing floors of harvested wheat. The tractor roared, the donkey brayed and the water thundered by - it was a diabolical din. Synonyms neigh, whinny, hee-haw rare hinny 1.1(Of a person) speak or laugh loudly and harshly: he brayed with laughter [with direct speech]: ‘Leave!’ brayed a voice behind her... His smiles almost never touch his lips, except when he is braying with laughter or doing something much more intimate. In fact, people are already braying for a saviour. Fired by much wine and a weariness with the visitor's braying, these words (or something very much like them) tumbled unbidden from the Professor's lips. Synonyms roar, bellow, trumpet Origin Middle English: from Old French brait 'a shriek', braire 'to cry' (the original senses in English), perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin. Rhymes affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea bray2 /breɪ / verb [with object] archaic Pound or crush (something) to small pieces, typically with a pestle and mortar: the kernels of this fruit the Arabs bray in a mortar... He was like that: he'd just bray somebody for no reason. He said: ‘The next thing I saw was two lads being brayed.’ The dust is then sifted, the residue is brayed again; refractory stalks are burned to ashes, and this is mixed with the snuff. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French breier, of Germanic origin; related to break¹.
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