| 释义 |
noisy, a.|ˈnɔɪzɪ|
[f. noise n. + -y1.]
1. a. Making, or given to making, a loud noise; clamorous, turbulent.
1693Dryden Epist. to Sir G. Kneller 83 A noisy crowd, Like women's anger, impotent and loud. 1700Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. i. i, Stir the simple hinds to noisie Faction. a1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 335 It is more noisy in its pursuits even than the dog. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. 139 The noisiest advocates of the most violent measures were probably its retainers. 1869Daily News 22 Dec., That noisier section of the agitators.
b. noisy scrub bird Austral., a ground-dwelling bird, Altrichornis clamosus, found in parts of Western Australia.
[1848J. Gould Birds Austral. III. tab. 34 (heading) Altrichia clamosa, Gould. Noisy Brush-bird.] 1901A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds I. 504 The Noisy Scrub Bird..lives in the thickets of undergrowth. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Feb. 21 One of the rarest and most curious of Australian birds is the ‘noisy scrub-bird’..whose home, if perchance the secretive creature survives, is in the dense forest of the Leeuwin Peninsula. 1966Evening Standard 14 July 18/2 One of Australia's rarest birds, the noisy scrub bird, has forced the Western Australian State Government to abandon plans to establish a new town. The town..was to have been in the heart of the noisy scrub bird country near Albany, 300 miles south of Perth. Ibid. 18/3 Between 1889 and 1961 the bird was neither seen nor heard. But then it reappeared... The noisy scrub bird is extremely elusive. The male has a call like the crack of a whip. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus x. 218 In Australia they rediscovered the Noisy Scrub Bird which had been thought to be extinct.
2. a. Full of, characterized by, noise.
1693Dryden Juvenal iii. (1697) 43 In quiet Cumæ fixing his Repose: Where, far from noisie Rome secure he lives. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan i. 61 Where thousands crowded in the noisie street. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 153 ⁋4 With little envy of the noisy happiness which my elder brother had the fortune to enjoy. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 338 Aquatic birds have shrill and piercing cries..in perfect correspondence with their noisy situations. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 358 In Covent Garden a filthy and noisy market was held close to the dwellings of the great. 1877M. Arnold Sonn., Quiet Work, Labour, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes.
Comb.1798B. Johnson Orig. Poems 187 Gay Mirth, and Laughter noisy-loud.
b. (In the sense of noise n. 7.)
1944Phil. Mag. XXXV. 394 If [the resistance] r{caret} were thermally ‘noisy’. 1949Proc. R. Soc. A. CXCVII. 480 (facing caption) Noisy background chiefly due to imperfections of illuminating objective. 1951Sci. Amer. Aug. 14/3 Transistors..were ‘noisy’. 1973Nature 5 Oct. 258/1 In the galactic plane, the 1,420 MHz line is noisy, which decreases its attractiveness.
3. transf. Very loud in colour.
1900Westm. Gaz. 9 Aug. 3/2 The effect from the reverse of the simple serge costume was not the least noisy. |