| 单词 | whimper |
| 释义 | whim·per I. intransitive verb 1. a. < had seen the old general whimper like a whipped dog — F.M.Ford > b. < always coming around to whimper over his troubles > < knocking on the door to whimper for admission > 2. < the wind whimpers in the aspens > < the tiny brook whimpers softly through the stones and mosses > transitive verb < they neither bray nor whimper nihilism; they prefer to fight — Charles Lee > < were forever whimpering that God had hidden his face from them — L.C.Douglas > II. 1. < the baby continued to cry, but its cries … were little more than troubled whimpers — Roark Bradford > < when the pack had been taken over half a dozen fields, there came a whimper and then a lifting chorus — E.J.Oates > < the moaning whimper of the tenor saxophone > 2. < without even a whimper of protest from party headquarters — Time > < the old whimper of sterility that comes up in every decade — New Statesman & Nation > |
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