| 单词 | cough |
| 释义 | cough (once / 444 pages) nv A cough is a reflex in which your throat or lungs are cleared by a sudden, sharp burst of air escaping. A bad cough can make it very hard to sleep at night. A cough is evidence that someone's sick, and it's a verb as well: "She began to cough and couldn't stop until someone brought her a bottle of water." You can also describe a cough-like sound that an engine makes when it's not working properly as a cough. The Old English source of cough is coughen, from a Germanic root — every version of the word is imitative, the word itself sounding like a cough. WORD FAMILYcough: coughed, coughing, coughs+/coughing: coughings USAGE EXAMPLESSome people are so sensitive to this effect that they develop uncontrollable coughing. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) The most common symptoms are fever, cough, sore throat, headache, chills and body aches. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) And on Dec. 3 he woke up with a bad cough. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis Syn|Hyper coughing symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease 2v exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion The smoker coughs all day Hypo|Hyper hack, whoop cough spasmodically clear the throat, hawkclear mucus or food from one's throat cough out, cough up, expectorate, spit out, spit up discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth |
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