grumbles

英 [ˈɡrʌmblz]

美 [ˈɡrʌmblz]

v.  咕哝; 嘟囔; 发牢骚; 咕隆; 发轰隆声
grumble的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 抱怨；发牢骚
  If someonegrumbles, they complain about something in a bad-tempered way.
  1. I shouldn't grumble about Mum — she's lovely really...
     我不该抱怨妈妈——她真的很好。
  2. Taft grumbled that the law so favored the criminal that trials seemed like a game of chance...
     塔夫脱抱怨法律如此偏袒罪犯，审判看来像是一场碰运气的游戏。
  3. 'This is inconvenient,' he grumbled...
     “这不方便，”他抱怨道。
  4. It's simply not in her nature to grumble.
     怨天尤人根本就不是她的性格。
  5. Grumbleis also a noun.
     
  6. My grumble is with the structure and organisation of the material.
     我所不满的是素材的结构和组织。
• VERB 隆隆作响
  If somethinggrumbles, it makes a low continuous sound.
  1. It was quiet now, the thunder had grumbled away to the west...
     隆隆的雷声向西边传去，现在寂静下来了。
  2. The dogs made a noise, a rough, grumbling sound.
     这些狗发出刺耳的低吼声。
  3. Grumbleis also a noun.
     
  4. One could often hear, far to the east, the grumble of guns.
     人们经常能听到从东边很远的地方传来的隆隆枪炮声。

双语例句

• Take your grumbles to the boss, not to me.
  你有牢骚对老板去说，不要对我说。
• Overtime and a wide mismatch between low salaries and high housing costs were also grumbles.
  员工们的抱怨还有加班和低工资与高房价间的巨大差距。
• It is a good wife that never grumbles.
  再好的妻子也唠叨。
• China has so far taken a pretty relaxed view of the foreigners 'grumbles.
  迄今为止，中国对外国友人的牢骚一直抱着相当宽容的态度。
• But its efforts to expand have led to grumbles in Europe about subsidies and a backlash in America against its opacity.
  但该公司在努力扩大规模这让欧洲方面有所怨言，称其存在不正常补贴；而美国也指责华为“不透明”。
• Germans moan about a dearth of engineers; Boeing grumbles about capacity constraints in the supply chain.
  德国在抱怨工程师短缺；波音（boeing）则抱怨供应链产能有限。
• But although there were grumbles about its competence, the TSE retained its dominant position in the Japanese market.
  不过，尽管市场对其能力多有抱怨之声，但东京证交所在日本市场仍保持着主导地位。
• She's tired of your unending grumbles.
  她厌倦了你那无休止的抱怨。
• Japanese business folk in China are not short of grumbles these days, what with the unpredictable officialdom, congested roads, soaring prices and thickening smog.
  在华日本商界人士近来一直在抱怨中国难以捉摸的官僚、拥堵的道路、飞涨的物价和越来越污浊的空气。
• A Dutch friend of mine describes a meeting in which 10 Dutch executives speak English to accommodate a single Briton-who, my friend grumbles, sits there feeling superior.
  一位荷兰朋友跟我提起一次会议的情形：会上有10位荷兰高管，为了一位英国人，大家不得不讲英语。我这位朋友抱怨道，那个英国人带着优越感坐在那儿。