drawl

★☆☆☆☆

v. 慢吞吞地说, 故意拉长调子讲话 n. 慢吞吞拉长调子的说话方式

发音

UK /dɹɔːl/
其它 /dɹɑl/
US /dɹɔl/

词形变化

drawls 复数 drawls drawled drawling drawls 三单 drawling 现在分词 drawled 过去式 drawled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.

v.
  1. 1.

    To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

accent
动词

上位词 6

say pronounce articulate enunciate enounce sound out

相关短语

Southern drawl southern drawl

词源

From a modern frequentative form of draw, equivalent to draw + -le. Compare draggle. Compare also Dutch dralen (“to drag out, delay, linger, tarry, dawdle”), Old Danish dravle (“to linger, loiter”), Icelandic dralla (“to loiter, linger”).

来源：wiktionary