gaggle

• n. 一群；鹅群；咯咯声
• vi. 嘎嘎叫

拟声词，模仿鸭子叫或鹅叫。

1. a flock of geese

gaggle (n.)

late 15c., gagyll, with reference to both geese and women (on the notion of "chattering company"). Barnhart says possibly from Old Norse gagl "small goose, gosling, wild goose;" OED calls it "one of the many artificial terms invented in the 15th c. as distinctive collectives referring to particular animals or classes of persons." Possibly of imitative origin (compare Dutch gagelen "to chatter;" Middle English gaggle "to cackle," used of geese, attested from late 14c.). The loosened general sense of "group of people" is from 1946.

They all burst out laughing, sounding like a gaggle of geese.

她们全都放声大笑, 像一群鸭子一样嘎嘎地叫着.

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A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.

一群乱哄哄的记者坐在酒店大堂里焦急地等待着。

辞典例句

In another hospital, I found a gaggle of rural patients crouching on the forecourt.

在另一家医院, 我一群吵闹的农村病人蹲在医院的大厅.

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A gaggle of screaming children waited just outside the gym, some seeking autographs.

一群尖叫的孩子等在体育场外, 有些想要寻求球星签名.

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Instead, this gaggle of leading financiers called for a new reserve currency, akin style gold standard.

相反, 这群重要的金融家呼吁设立一种类似于传统金本位的新的储备货币.

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Maintain gaggle not to move what have many system namely, do not mix, should strengthen segregation.

保持鹅群不动即有多个小群体的, 不要混合, 应加强隔离.

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A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk beside a swelling crowd of onlookers ( Gioia Diliberto )

一群摄影师拥挤在路边,旁边是一大群旁观者 ( 乔亚迪利贝托 )

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Is the field of view wide enough to hold , say , a smallish gaggle of your friends?

视野是否宽阔?可否将一群唧唧喳喳的朋友收进去?

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By happy accident, the German government recently played host to a gaggle of Brussels - based reporters.

碰巧德国最近接待了一群布鲁塞尔总部来的嘎嘎乱叫的报告团.

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