| 单词 | shrill |
| 释义 | shrill I. intransitive verb < in the trees outside the cicadas were shrilling — Lucien Price > < the loudspeaker shrilled with the noise — C.S.Forester > transitive verb < shrilled orders and then fell with a scream — F.V.W.Mason > < headlines have shrilled disquieting news — Dorothy Barclay > II. 1. a. < a shrill whistle > < the shrill music of the calliope — American Guide Series: Tennessee > b. < make shrill, hysterical little sorties around the shops after lunch — C.G.Glover > 2. < arc lamps bathed the occasion in shrill blue light — Noel Coward > < everything looked different: the outlines were shriller — Elizabeth Pollet > 3. a. < criticism … so shrill and partisan that it has provoked resistance and resentment — R.K.Carr > b. < with every look his wrath became shriller, narrower, more personal — Max Lerner > III. archaic < through the high wood echoing shrill — John Milton > IV. < the shrill of a ship's whistle > < the shrill of crickets — F.D.Ommanney > |
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