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

verb | noun

barkbark1 /bɑrk/ ●●● S2 verb

ETYMOLOGYbark¹

Origin: Old English beorcan

VERB TABLE

bark

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	bark
	he, she, it	barks
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	barked
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have barked
	he, she, it	has barked
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had barked
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will bark
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have barked

Continuous Form
Present	I	am barking
	he, she, it	is barking
	you, we, they	are barking
Past	I, he, she, it	was barking
	you, we, they	were barking
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been barking
	he, she, it	has been barking
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been barking
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be barking
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been barking

1[intransitive] to make the short loud sound that dogs and some other animals make: Don’t worry – he barks, but he doesn’t bite.bark at Can you make the dog stop barking at the mailman?2[transitive] (also bark out) to say something quickly in a loud voice: bark something at somebody The sergeant barked orders at us.3be barking up the wrong tree informal to have a wrong idea, especially about how to get a particular result: You’re barking up the wrong tree if you think Sam can help you.4bark at the moon informal to worry and complain about something that you cannot change, and that is not very important5[transitive] to rub the skin off your knee, elbow, etc. by falling or knocking against something: I barked my shin on the bed. [Origin: Old English beorcan]

verb | noun

barkbark2 ●●● noun [countable, uncountable]

ETYMOLOGYbark²

Origin: (1, 3-4) 1500-1600 ➔ BARK¹ (2) 1200-1300 Old Norse börkr

1the sharp loud sound made by a dog2science, biology the hard outer covering of the stem and branches of a tree, that consists of dead cells3a loud sound or voice: the bark of the guns4somebody’s bark is worse than his/her bite spoken used to say that although someone talks in an angry way he or she would not behave violently5another spelling of barque