| 单词 | roar |
| 释义 | roar I. intransitive verb 1. a. < the lions roared > < the little brass cannon roared again and again — American Guide Series: Texas > b. < the lumbermen had their own songs, roared in the forests and in mill-town saloons — American Guide Series: Michigan > 2. a. < a city that normally grumbles and screeches and roars — I.J.C.Brown > b. < the audience roaring at the pantomime > 3. a. < desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town — R.A.Billington > b. < around which all this controversy roars — A.H.Vandenberg †1951 > c. < rivers roared in the abandoned channels of the glaciers — John Muir †1914 > < get a good view of the express as she roared through — O.S.Nock > 4. transitive verb 1. < roaring names … like a railway porter shouting out a list of stations — Robert Lynd > < delegates to the union's … convention roared approval of a resolution — Mary K. Hammond > < roar defiance > 2. < the river roared him to sleep > 3. < pressed on the accelerator, savagely roaring the engine — Russell Thacher > Synonyms: < far away guns roar — Virginia Woolf > < the harsh north wind … roared in the piazzas — Osbert Sitwell > < roared the blacksmith, his face black with rage — T.B.Costain > howl indicates a higher, less reverberant sound often suggesting the doleful or agonized or the sounds of unrestrained laughter < frequent howling of jackals and hyenas — James Stevenson-Hamilton > < how the wind does howl — J.C.Powys > < roared at his subject … howled at … inconsistencies — Martin Gardner > ululate is a literary synonym for howl but may suggest mournful protraction and rhythmical delivery < an ululating baritone mushy with pumped-up pity — E.B.White > bellow suggests the loud, abrupt, hollow sound made typically by bulls or any similar loud, reverberating sound < most of them were drunk. They went bellowing through the town — Kenneth Roberts > bawl suggests a somewhat lighter, less reverberant, unmodulated sound made typically by calves < a woman bawling abuse from the door of an inn — C.E.Montague > < the old judge was in the hall bawling hasty orders — Sheridan Le Fanu > bluster suggests the turbulent noisiness of gusts of wind; it often suggests swaggering and noisy threats or protests < expressed her opinion gently but firmly, while he blustered for a time and then gave in — Sherwood Anderson > < swagger and bluster and take the limelight — Margaret Mead > clamor suggests sustained, mixed and confused noisy outcry as from a number of agitated persons < half-starved men and women clamoring for food — Kenneth Roberts > < easy … for critics … to clamor for action — Sir Winston Churchill > vociferate suggests loud vehement insistence in speaking < was not willing to break off his talk; so he continued to vociferate his remarks — James Boswell > II. a. < the roar of a lion > b. c. < the ominous, steady roar of airplane engines — Erle Stanley Gardner > < a roar of conversation coming from the bar — Claud Cockburn > < able to make his thin whistling rise above the roar of the stream — T.B.Costain > d. < a roar of laughter > |
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