wheeze

C2 FREQ #41489 ★☆☆☆☆

vi. 喘气 vt. 喘息着说 n. 喘气声, 喘息

发音

其它 /ʍiːz/

词形变化

wheezes 复数 wheezes wheezed wheezes 三单 wheezing wheezing 现在分词 wheezed 过去式 wheezed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

    喘息

  2. 2.

    An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

  3. 3.

    An ulterior scheme or plan.

    爱尔兰 非正式
  4. 4.

    Something very humorous or laughable.

    俚语

    The new comedy is a wheeze.

    You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!

  5. 5.

    A sound that resembles a human wheezing.

v. C2
  1. 1.

    To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.

  2. 2.

    To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

    喘气

    喘息

    If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.

  3. 3.

    To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.

    俚语

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词源

From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).

来源:wiktionary