warble
verb /ˈwɔːbl/
/ˈwɔːrbl/
动词形式
present simple I / you / we / they warble | /ˈwɔːbl/ /ˈwɔːrbl/ |
he / she / it warbles | /ˈwɔːblz/ /ˈwɔːrblz/ |
past simple warbled | /ˈwɔːbld/ /ˈwɔːrbld/ |
past participle warbled | /ˈwɔːbld/ /ˈwɔːrbld/ |
-ing form warbling | /ˈwɔːblɪŋ/ /ˈwɔːrblɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] warble (something) | + speech (humorous) to sing, especially in a high voice that is not very steady
(尤指用颤音高声)唱 - He warbled his way through the song.
整个歌曲他是用高颤音唱的。
- He warbled his way through the song.
- [intransitive, transitive] warble (something) (of a bird
) to sing with rapidly changing notes鸟 啭鸣
词源late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘melody’): from Old Northern French werble (noun), werbler (verb), of Germanic origin; related to whirl.