skirl
n. 尖叫声, 风笛声音 vi. 发出尖锐声 vt. 用风笛演奏
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释义与例句
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1.
A shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
苏格兰2006 [Bantam], Nick Drake, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead, 2011, Black Swan, page 191, The last servants and late officials hurried into their places, the guards took their positions, and then, with a beating of the drums and a skirl of reed pipes, the whole group made its way back across the courtyard and up the stairs to the Window of Appearances between the palace and the Great Temple.
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2.
A blast (of wind-blown snow or rain); a gust (especially if accompanied by snow or rain, or a shill or whistling sound).
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To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
苏格兰1829, James Hogg (as the Ettrick Shepherd), The p and the q, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 26, page 693, He gloom'd and he skirl'd, and, when in hard case, / He whiles gae his mother a yerk on the face;
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Alternative form of shirl.
词汇关系
词源
Originally from Scots and Northern English dialects (as a verb), probably of Old Norse origin; ultimately imitative.
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