| 单词 | bellow |
| 释义 | bellow (once / 722 pages) vn To bellow is to shout in a deep, angry voice. If you constantly bellow at other drivers on the road, consider signing up for anger management classes. Bellow comes from Middle English, and means "to roar like a bull." A cow's deep moo is called a low, so bellow just adds a big angry bull to the standard moo. We use bellow for human speech that has that angry power of a loud bovine, or for any loud, threatening noise. It can be a noun, as in the bellow of the thundercloud, or a verb, as when you bellow at your kid brother. WORD FAMILYbellow: bellowed, bellower, bellowing, bellows+/bellower: bellowers/bellowing: bellowings/bellows: bellowses USAGE EXAMPLESEfforts to connect the war to fears of masculine inadequacy seem now almost as comical as Bellows’s work is macabre. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) She whinnys for him if he’s not nearby and he bellows back for her. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) “Britain’s last Remaining hope”, bellows a headline on the Politico website. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) 1v make a loud noise, as of animal The bull bellowed Syn|Hyper roar emit, let loose, let out, utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) 2v shout loudly and without restraint Syn|Hyper bawl shout utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) 3n a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) his bellow filled the hallway Syn|Hyper bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl call, cry, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition Bellow (once / 31945 pages) n WORD FAMILY Bellow USAGE EXAMPLESIt was nothing to find signed copies of Saul Bellow novels. Salon(Oct 29, 2016) Is he in the same league with previous laureates — Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez, to pick four almost at random? Washington Post(Oct 27, 2016) The Nobel laureate received a prize named for a previous Nobel winner, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. Washington Times(Oct 27, 2016) n United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005) Syn|Exp Saul Bellow, Solomon Bellow author, writer writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
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