groan
verb /ɡrəʊn/
/ɡrəʊn/
动词形式
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they groan | /ɡrəʊn/ /ɡrəʊn/ |
| he / she / it groans | /ɡrəʊnz/ /ɡrəʊnz/ |
| past simple groaned | /ɡrəʊnd/ /ɡrəʊnd/ |
| past participle groaned | /ɡrəʊnd/ /ɡrəʊnd/ |
| -ing form groaning | /ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/ /ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to make a long deep sound because you are annoyed, upset or in pain, or with pleasure
呻吟；叹息；哼哼 - He lay on the floor groaning.
他躺在地板上呻吟。 - groan with something to groan with pain/pleasure
痛苦地呻吟；高兴得直哼哼 - groan at something We all groaned at his terrible jokes.
他讲的笑话很糟糕，我们都发出不满的抱怨声。 - + speech ‘It's a complete mess!’ she groaned.
“这简直是一团糟！” 她叹息道。 - ‘Don’t move me,’ he groaned.
“别动我，”他呻吟着说。
Homophones groan | growngroan grown/ɡrəʊn//ɡrəʊn/- groan verb
- The awful jokes made us all groan.
可怕的笑话让我们都呻吟起来。
- The awful jokes made us all groan.
- groan noun
- He let out a groan of pain.
他发出痛苦的呻吟。
- He let out a groan of pain.
- grown (past participle of grow)
- The business has grown hugely in the last ten years.
在过去的十年里，这个行业发展迅速。
- The business has grown hugely in the last ten years.
- grown adjective
- Although he's a grown man, he'll always be our little boy.
虽然他是个成年人，但他永远是我们的小男孩。
- Although he's a grown man, he'll always be our little boy.
- He groaned at the pain.
他痛苦地呻吟着。 - Some of the patients were groaning with pain.
一些病人痛苦地呻吟着。 - He groaned inwardly at the thought of spending another day in that place.
一想到要在那儿再待上一天，他就暗自叫苦。 - She groaned out loud in protest.
她大声抱怨，以示抗议。 - There's no point in moaning and groaning about not having any money.
为没钱而不停地抱怨是毫无意义的。 - She tried to get up and groaned with pain.
她试图站起来，痛苦地呻吟着。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- loudly
- quietly
- softly
- …
- in
- with
- at
- …
- moan and groan
- He lay on the floor groaning.
- [intransitive, transitive] to complain about something, especially in an annoying way
呻吟： 抱怨某事，特别是以恼人的方式抱怨（1）抱怨某事- groan about something They were all moaning and groaning about the amount of work they had.
他们对工作量都怨声载道。 - + speech ‘It's not fair!’ she groaned.
“这不公平，”。她呻吟着。
- groan about something They were all moaning and groaning about the amount of work they had.
- [intransitive] to make a sound like a person groaning
发出似呻吟的声音 - The trees creaked and groaned in the wind.
树在风中嘎吱作响。
- The trees creaked and groaned in the wind.
词源Old English grānian, of Germanic origin; related to German greinen ‘grizzle, whine’, grinsen ‘grin’, also probably to grin.
Idioms
groan under the weight of something
- (formal) used to say that there is too much of something
在某物的折磨（或重压）下呻吟；被某物压得喘不过气来（或无法忍受） - The table groaned under the weight of the biggest buffet they had ever seen.
桌子在他们所见过的最大自助餐的重压下嘎吱作响。
- The table groaned under the weight of the biggest buffet they had ever seen.