rattle

• vt. 使发出咯咯声；喋喋不休；使慌乱，使惊慌
• vi. 喋喋不休地讲话；发出卡嗒卡嗒声
• n. 喋喋不休的人；吓吱声，格格声
• n. (Rattle)人名；(英)拉特尔

拟声词，-le,表反复。

1. a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders);

"the death rattle"

2. a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken

3. loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail

rattle

rattle: [14] Rattle probably existed in Old English, but in the absence of any direct evidence, it is usually suggested that the word was borrowed from Middle Low German rattelen, a relative of German rasseln ‘rattle’. Whatever its ultimate source, it no doubt originally imitated the sound of rattling.

rattle (v.)

c. 1300 (intransitive), "To make a quick sharp noise with frequent repetitions and collisions of bodies not very sonorous: when bodies are sonorous, it is called jingling" [Johnson]. Perhaps in Old English but not recorded; if not, from Middle Dutch ratelen, probably of imitative origin (compare German rasseln "to rattle," Greek kradao "I rattle"). Sense of "utter smartly and rapidly" is late 14c. Meaning "to go along loosely and noisily" is from 1550s. Transitive sense is late 14c.; figurative sense of "fluster" is first recorded 1869. Related: Rattled; rattling.

rattle (n.)

c. 1500, "rapid succession of short, sharp sounds," from rattle (v.). As a child's toy, recorded from 1510s. As a sound made in the throat (especially of one near death) from 1752.

Every time a bus went past, the windows rattled.

每逢公共汽车经过这里，窗户都格格作响。

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A convoy of trucks rattled by.

卡车队隆隆驶过。

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He was clearly rattled by the question.

这个问题显然令他感到紧张。

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Who's rattled his cage?

谁惹他生气了？

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She spent the last few years alone, rattling around the old family home.

她在世的最后几年，一个人居住在空空荡荡的老宅子里。

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She can rattle off the names of all the presidents of the US.

她可以不假思索地说出所有美国总统的名字。

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the rattle of gunfire

轰隆轰隆的炮火声

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From the kitchen came a rattling of cups and saucers.

从厨房里传来叮叮当当杯盘相碰的声音。

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She slams the kitchen door so hard I hear dishes rattle...

她把厨房门重重地关上，我甚至听到了碟子的震颤声。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He gently rattled the cage and whispered to the canary...

他轻轻晃动着鸟笼，和金丝雀轻声低语着。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The news from Body Shop rattled the rest of the retail sector...

从“美体小铺”传来的消息令整个零售行业不安。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She refused to be rattled by his £3,000-a-day lawyer.

她拒绝被他以每天3,000英镑雇来的律师骚扰。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The bus from Odense rattled into a dusty village called Pozo Almonte...

从欧登塞来的巴士颠簸着驶入一个叫作波索阿尔蒙特的灰蒙蒙的村庄。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Somewhere close at hand a train rattled by.

一辆火车从我的身边轰隆隆地开过。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

This week the Full Moon on Thursday will tend to rattle your cage at work.

本周四的满月给你的工作带来紧张形势.

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Rattle He rattled through the list of names.

他口中象爆豆一般念那名单.

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She could hear the rattle of the teacups.

她听见茶具叮当响.

辞典例句

I can rattle off lists of names of otherAtkineers that assisted me in getting to goal.

我能飞快地说出一串帮助我实现目标的其他阿特金斯信徒的名字.

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The rattle of the engine was very loud.

发动机的嘎嘎声很大.

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Her daughter can rattle off any waltz by Strauss.

她的女儿能轻易而迅速地弹奏施特劳斯作的任何圆舞曲.

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If a Rattle snake bit me, the snake would die.

如果响尾蛇咬了我, 那它就死定了.

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He discovered that the rattle came from a hanging lamp that was swinging back and forth.

他发现声响来自一盏来回摆动的吊油灯.

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Once she started to talk about herself, she would rattle away for a long time.

只要讲到她自己, 她就喋喋不休地讲个没完.

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