| 单词 | chime in |
| 释义 | chime in (once / 2730 pages) v When you chime in, you offer your opinion or add your voice to a conversation. If your friends are discussing where to go for dinner, you could chime in, "Anywhere but Olive Garden!" Some students are quick to chime in during classes, answering the teacher's questions and asking their own as well. When you attend a lecture by a famous writer, it's appropriate to chime in during question and answer sessions, but it's not okay to chime in while she's reading aloud from her latest book. Chime in originally meant "to join harmoniously in music." WORD FAMILYchime in: chimed in, chimes in, chiming in USAGE EXAMPLESBut every now and then as she spoke he chimed in, his voice rising alongside hers like an echo. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) On Thursday, Trump chimed in on another hot-button issue without providing context or clarity: the nation’s nuclear stockpiles. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) And in a display of unity unthinkable between modern rivals, even other schools chimed in to declare their immense pride in Alabama’s invitation. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) v break into a conversation her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation Syn|Hypo|Hyper barge in, break in, butt in, chisel in, cut in, put in disrupt, interrupt interfere in someone else's activity cut ininterrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner cut shortcause to end earlier than intended break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt make a break in |
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