| 单词 | stammer |
| 释义 | stam·mer I. intransitive verb 1. a. < is so nervous he stammers constantly > < shrank a little at his vehemence, but neither blushed nor stammered — George Meredith > — compare stutter b. < where the pedant theologians mumble and stammer, she is articulate — W.L.Sullivan > < living thoughts … in the 9th century began to stammer in Latin verses — H.O.Taylor > < appear a much more diffuse, stammering, and incoherent writer than he is — Paul Welsh > c. < my company's light automatics stammered furiously — John Masters > < shutters were stammering and fidgeting at their hooks — Elizabeth Enright > 2. dialect Britain transitive verb 1. < “why — why — ” stammered the youth struggling with his balking tongue — Stephen Crane > < stammered that he was afraid he had not any notes to show — worth seeing — George Meredith > 2. < stammered a crude communism in the vernacular — John Buchan > — often used with out < contented with a very slight degree of learning, could scarcely stammer out the words of the sacrament — G.G.Coulton > II. 1. 2. < when he was at all agitated the stammer became a complete inhibition of speech — F.A.Swinnerton > |
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