caterwaul的翻译与解释是什么
发布于 2023-06-06 01:02:49
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caterwaul
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音标：英 ['kætəwɔːl] 美 ['kætɚwɔl]
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解释：
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vi. 叫春；发出猫叫春的声音
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n. 猫叫春声；像猫叫春的声音
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中文词源：
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caterwaul 猫叫cat, 猫。-waul, 嚎叫，拟声词。
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英文词源：
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caterwaul
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caterwaul: [14] The earliest known use of this word comes in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue 1386: ‘If the cat’s skin be slick and grey, forth she will, ere any day be dawned, to show her skin, and go a-caterwauling’. The first element of the word is generally accepted to be cat, while the second (in Middle English it was usually -wawe or -wrawe) is presumably onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of a cat wailing or yowling. It is not clear whether it was a purely native creation, or whether English borrowed it from Low German katerwaulen (where kater means ‘tom cat’).
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caterwaul (v.)
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late 14c., caterwrawen, perhaps from Low German katerwaulen "cry like a cat," or formed in English from cater, from Middle Dutch cater "tomcat" + Middle English waul "to yowl," apparently from Old English *wrag, *wrah "angry," of uncertain origin but all somehow imitative. Related: Caterwauled; caterwauling.
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更多相关例句：
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...shrieking and caterwauling in mock distress.
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