laughter

A2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #1055 ★★★☆☆

n. 笑, 笑声 [医] 笑, 大笑

发音

UK /ˈlɑːftə/
US /ˈlæftɚ/

词形变化

laughters 复数 laughters

别名

laughtre

教材释义与例句

名词

笑；笑声

when people laugh, or the sound of people laughing

Foster joined in the laughter.

福斯特也跟着笑了起来。

He looked shocked, then burst into laughter (= started laughing ).

他一脸的震惊，接着便放声大笑起来。

释义与例句

n. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

    笑声

    不可数

    Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.

  2. 2.

    A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

    笑

    不可数
  3. 3.

    A reason for merriment.

    古体 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

laugh

上位词 3

activity vocalization utterance

下位词 10

chuckle ha-ha giggle snort hee-haw cackle snicker chortle snigger belly laugh

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English laughter, laghter, laȝter, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout”). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment”), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter”), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter”). More at laugh.

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