cough
n. 咳嗽 vi. 咳嗽 vt. 咳出
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教材释义与例句
咳嗽，咳嗽声；咳嗽病
a medical condition that makes you cough a lot
咳出
to suddenly push air out of your throat with a short sound, often repeatedly
释义与例句
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1.
A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
咳嗽
Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.
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2.
A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
whooping cough
Sorry, I can’t come to work today—I’ve got a nasty cough.
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3.
A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2, noun sense 1).
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A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
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Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
及物 医学Sometimes she coughed up blood.
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2.
To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
及物 医学He almost coughed himself into a fit.
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3.
To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
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To surrender (information); to confess.
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Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
比喻 俚语 及物 医学 -
6.
To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.
咳嗽
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不及物I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
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To make a noise like a cough.
咳嗽
不及物The engine coughed and sputtered.
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To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
不及物 俚语
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1.
Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem.
He was—cough—indisposed.
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The noun is derived from Middle English cough (“a cough; illness causing coughing”) [and other forms], from coughen (verb): see etymology 1. The interjection is probably derived from the noun.
来源：wiktionary