twittering

英 [ˈtwɪtərɪŋ]

美 [ˈtwɪtərɪŋ]

v.  (鸟)唧啾，吱喳，啁啾; 唧唧喳喳地说话
twitter的现在分词

复数：twitterings　现在分词：twittering　

BNC.43284 / COCA.38693

柯林斯词典

• VERB (鸟)吱喳，唧啾
  When birdstwitter, they make a lot of short high-pitched sounds.
  1. There were birds twittering in the eucalyptus trees.
     桉树上鸟儿在吱吱喳喳地叫。
  2. ...a tree filled with twittering birds.
     枝头落满了啁啾鸟雀的树
  3. Twitteris also a noun.
     
  4. Naomi would waken to the twitter of birds.
     娜奥米会被鸟儿吱吱喳喳的叫声唤醒。
• VERB 嘁嘁喳喳地说
  If you say that someoneis twittering aboutsomething, you mean that they are speaking about silly or unimportant things, usually rather fast or in a high-pitched voice.
  1. ...debutantes twittering excitedly about Christian Dior dresses...
     嘁嘁喳喳兴奋地谈论着克里斯汀·迪奥女装的初入社交界的富家小姐们
  2. She laughs, blushes and twitters: 'Oh, doesn't Giles have just the most charming sense of humour?'
     她羞赧地笑了，尖声细气地说道：“哦，难道贾尔斯的幽默感不正是特招人喜欢的那种吗？”

双语例句

• The birds were twittering and trilling in the tall leafy boughs of oak and elm.
  小鸟们在高大的橡树和榆树的绿叶垂垂的枝头上啾啾地叫着或颤声唱歌。
• The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes.
  小鸟在树丛中跳来跳去，叽叽喳喳。
• Suddenly her flight wound to an end in a dozen twittering steps.
  突然，她的奔逃以十几个颤抖的碎步结束了。
• Sparrows are twittering outside.
  麻雀在外边叽叽喳喳地叫。
• What is he twittering about?
  他唧唧喳喳地说什么呢？
• The twittering of birds distracted me from sleeping.
  小鸟的鸣叫令我睡意全无。
• The buds were flying about and twittering with delight.
  鸟儿飞来飞去，愉快地啁啾。
• The Egyptian military is reluctant to surrender power and, given a chance, voters have preferred Muslim conservatives to twittering liberals.
  埃及军方不甘心交出权力，而埃及选民在得到投票机会后，却倾向于选择穆斯林保守派，而不是吵吵嚷嚷的自由派。
• Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cockcrow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.
  他坚持认为，凌晨雄鸡第一声啼叫，黎明时分小鸟吱喳欢叫，冉冉升起的朝阳染红树木、牧场，此番美景无与伦比。
• They talked all the time in high, twittering voices.
  他们一直在嘁嘁喳喳地大声讲话。