shriek

pronunciation

UK [ʃri:k]word uk audio image

US [ʃrik] word us audio image

  • vt.& vi.
    尖叫
    引人注意
    发出一种类似尖叫的声音
  • n.
    尖叫声
    尖锐的声音:一种能使人联想起这种尖叫的声音

Word Origin

Example

1. If need to use a personal shriek alarm to distract your aggressor so you can get away .
如果需要的话,可以尖叫来发出警报声,转移侵犯者的注意力,这样你就可以逃脱。
2. There are certain types of photographs that tend to make viewers shriek " oh that \ 's cool ! "
有一种照片会让观众尖叫“太强了!”
3. If they happened to crawl under my dress or I sat on them accidentally they would punish me with a sting that made me shriek with pain .
如果他们恰巧爬到我裙子底下,或我正好坐在他们上面时他们就会用那能疼得让我尖叫的刺痛来惩罚我。
4. Our stubborn preference for a just price evolved in a setting that is no longer common ; but evolution does not respond quickly , which may be why we still shriek with outrage at price hikes .
我们对于公平价格的执著偏好,在一种不再普遍的环境中进化;但进化不会做出迅速的反应,这可能是我们之所以仍对涨价愤怒尖叫的原因。
5. He owns a cacao plantation in this swath of untamed cloud forest in northern venezuela , where ocelots dart under towering saman trees and howler monkeys shriek at visitors .
他在委内瑞拉北部的这一带阴云笼罩的森林中拥有一处可可种植园,在那里豹猫在高耸的雨木下飞蹿而过,还有吼猴对着来访者尖叫。

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