chime
verb /tʃaɪm/
/tʃaɪm/
[intransitive, transitive]动词形式
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they chime | /tʃaɪm/ /tʃaɪm/ |
he / she / it chimes | /tʃaɪmz/ /tʃaɪmz/ |
past simple chimed | /tʃaɪmd/ /tʃaɪmd/ |
past participle chimed | /tʃaɪmd/ /tʃaɪmd/ |
-ing form chiming | /ˈtʃaɪmɪŋ/ /ˈtʃaɪmɪŋ/ |
- (of a bell or a clock
) to ring; to show the time by making a ringing sound铃或时钟 鸣响;敲响;报时 - I heard the clock chime.
我听见钟响报时。 - Eight o'clock had already chimed.
已敲过八点钟了。 - chime something The clock chimed midday.
时钟响过正午十二点。
Collocations DictionaryChime is used with these nouns as the subject:- bell
- clock
- doorbell
- …
词源Middle English (in the senses ‘cymbal’ and ‘ring out’): probably from Old English cimbal (from Latin cymbalum, from Greek kumbalon, from kumbē ‘cup’), later interpreted as chime bell. - I heard the clock chime.