clucking

英 [ˈklʌkɪŋ]

美 [ˈklʌkɪŋ]

v.  (鸡)咯咯地叫，发出咯咯声; (表示遗憾或不赞成)发出啧啧声
cluck的现在分词

复数：cluckings　现在分词：clucking　

BNC.46610 / COCA.40893

柯林斯词典

• VERB (母鸡)咯咯叫
  When a henclucks, it makes short, low noises.
  1. Chickens clucked in the garden.
     鸡在花园里咯咯叫。
• VERB （对…）大惊小怪，过分关心
  Tocluck oversomeone or something means to behave in a fussy or protective way.
  1. I've never been one to cluck over babies of either sex...
     不管是男孩还是女孩，我从来都对小孩没什么兴趣。
  2. The seamstresses cluck around a dummy, discussing a tuck here and there.
     这些女裁缝围着模特儿衣架叽叽嘎嘎地讨论衣服这里或那里要做的小改动。
• VERB 发咂咂声(以示不满)
  Tocluck atsomeone or something means to make disapproving noises or say things in a disapproving way.
  1. Superintendent Fairbairn was still clucking at the photographers, warning them he'd be speaking to their editor...
     费尔贝恩警长还在表达对摄影师们的不满，警告说他会和他们的主编谈谈。
  2. He clucks in disapproval...
     他不满地咂咂嘴。
  3. Teddy clucked his tongue like a disapproving English matron.
     特迪咂了咂舌头，活像个不以为然的英国女舍监。

英英释义

noun

• the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
  Synonym:cluck

双语例句

• You two hens finish your clucking.
  你们两个女人接着八卦。
• From the hen run they could hear the birds clucking over their eggs.
  从鸡场处他们可以听到母鸡在咯咯叫蛋。
• "You little fraud," he said, clucking to the horse.
  “你这个小骗子，”他揶揄地说，一面喝马向前。
• It was nice to have a man fussing and clucking and scolding, even if it was only that old maid in pants, Frank kennedy.
  有这么一个男人，便是弗兰克肯尼迪这样婆婆妈妈的男人也好，在身边忙活，咯咯地叫，疼爱地责怪她，那有多美呀！
• The hen started clucking after she laid an egg.
  母鸡下完蛋后，咯咯地叫个不停。
• In classic barnyard fashion, it was scratching, pecking and clucking.
  它像在传统的谷仓前的院子里那样抓来抓去，啄来啄去，咯咯地叫着。
• It's a small joke on Hannah but a bigger one on the anxious, hovering adults who supplied the clucking soundtrack when she was growing up.
  对汉娜来说这是个小玩笑，但是对她成长过程中的那些焦虑彷徨，啧啧做声的成年人来说，这可不是小事。
• Then the clucking of a chicken came from somewhere near the half built house.
  房子周围突然传来母鸡下蛋的声音。
• They were so absorbed in the sense of being close to each other that they did not begin talking for a long while, the silence being broken only by the clucking of the milk in the tall cans behind them.
  他们坐在一起，沉浸在相互接近的感觉里，所以好久他们都没有说话，在他们的沉默中，只有身后高大铁罐里的牛奶发出的咣当咣当的响声。
• She went quietly and busily clucking around, laying the eggs and mothering the chickens in a kind of anxious dream that still was full of sureness.
  她惬意沉着荒僻默默而繁忙地随处咯咯叫着，产蛋，抚养小鸡，带着一种仍旧充塞自傲的发急的胡想。