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

单词	murmur
释义	mur·mur I. \ˈmərmər, ˈmə̄mə(r, ˈməimə(r\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English murmure, from Middle French, from Latin murmur murmur, grumbling, roar; akin to Old High German murmurōn, murmulōn to murmur, Old Norse murra to murmur, Greek mormyrein to roar and boil (of water), Sanskrit marmara murmuring, rustling; of imitative origin 1. : a complaint half suppressed or uttered in a low muttering voice : grumbling < the tax on chimneys … raised far louder murmurs — T.B.Macaulay > < devices … which writers use confidently and readers accept without a murmur — Robert Humphrey > < a murmur of impatience in the crowd — G.B.Shaw > 2. a. : a low indistinct but often continuous sound < the murmur of voices in the street — Sherwood Anderson > < the murmur of the waves along the shore > b. : a soft-spoken word : gentle speech < her murmur was a comforting word > < there was a murmur, “Yes, Yes” — Millen Brand > < amid a murmur of salaams we seated ourselves — William Beebe > 3. : rumor, whisper < was fresh in murmur … that he did seek the love of fair Olivia — Shakespeare > 4. : an abnormal sound of the heart heard through the chest wall indicating a functional abnormality or the site of a structural abnormality 5. also murmur vowel : the unstressed voiced or voiceless vowel \ə\ when morphemically incidental to the articulation of a consonant II. verb (murmured ; murmured ; murmuring \-m(ə)riŋ\ ; murmurs) Etymology: Middle English murmuren, from Middle French murmurer, from Latin murmurare, from murmur *intransitive verb* 1. : to make a low continuous sound < the brook murmured under the ice — Elliott Merrick > < a breeze murmured in the trees — Wilfrid Campfield > 2. : to utter complaints in a low half-articulated voice : express discontent : grumble < no one dares murmur in public — Time > < the ignorant and ungrateful nation murmured against its deliverers — T.B.Macaulay > *transitive verb* 1. a. Scotland : to murmur against : accuse b. : to utter with dissatisfaction : complain < critics … murmur today that it lacks a forward looking concept — M.W.Straight > 2. : to utter or give forth in low or indistinct sounds or words < the sentences men murmur again and again for years — W.B.Yeats > < she would be murmuring into the telephone important secrets — Elizabeth Headley >
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