| 单词 | sputter |
| 释义 | sput·ter I. transitive verb 1. < cram your mouth so full that if you were to speak you must sputter the contents of it amongst the dishes and the company — Earl of Chesterfield > 2. < sputtering protests he retired from the contest > — often used with out < began to laugh, sputtering out the story — Dawn Powell > 3. intransitive verb 1. < talks while he eats and sputters all over the place > 2. < their response … sputtered in its indignation — F.L.Paxson > 3. a. < the car sputtered down the road — Elizabeth Pollet > < machine guns sputtered away hysterically — Erle Stanley Gardner > < candles … sputter before the shrines — American Guide Series: Texas > b. < the engine sputtered, spit, and died > — usually used with out < the excitement … appeared to have sputtered out — Newsweek > II. 1. < protesting with a good deal of sputter > 2. < can write their names now without a sputter of the pen — Thomas Hardy > < would come the distant cough, sputter, choke, then catch, roar, and soon steady droning of the first planes — Benedict Thielen > |
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