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单词 clunk
释义
clunkclunk /klʌŋk/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINclunk
Origin:
1700-1800 From the sound
Examples
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  • Eight digits, a six-second delay, and a clunk, then the hard burr of the country telephone.
  • He hears the two-part clunk of the receiver being set down.
  • I shove aside a pile of dehydrated red and black typewriter ribbons and set my machine down with a clunk.
  • If I accelerate hard then release the throttle suddenly, the transmission makes a clunk.
  • She was just about to rattle the huge gates in fury when there was a clunk and the gates whirred open.
  • The bottle fell inside with a hollow clunk.
  • There was the rattle and heavy clunk of a fridge door being opened and closed.
  • This time there was one ominous clunk.
a loud sound made when two solid objects hit each other:  the clunk of the car door being shutclunk verb [intransitive, transitive]
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