rattle

英 ['r?t(?)l] 美['r?tl]

CET6+TEM8GRETOEFLCET6中低頻詞常用詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?rattles;過去式:?rattled;過去分詞:?rattled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?rattling;

rattle 吧嗒響

擬聲詞，-le,表反復(fù)。

rattle: rattle: [14] Rattle probably existed in Old English, but in the absence of any direct evidence, it is usually suggested that the word was borrowed from Middle Low German rattelen, a relative of German rasseln ‘rattle’. Whatever its ultimate source, it no doubt originally imitated the sound of rattling.
rattle (v.): c. 1300 (intransitive), "To make a quick sharp noise with frequent repetitions and collisions of bodies not very sonorous: when bodies are sonorous, it is called jingling" [Johnson]. Perhaps in Old English but not recorded; if not, from Middle Dutch ratelen, probably of imitative origin (compare German rasseln "to rattle," Greek kradao "I rattle"). Sense of "utter smartly and rapidly" is late 14c. Meaning "to go along loosely and noisily" is from 1550s. Transitive sense is late 14c.; figurative sense of "fluster" is first recorded 1869. Related: Rattled; rattling.
rattle (n.): c. 1500, "rapid succession of short, sharp sounds," from rattle (v.). As a child's toy, recorded from 1510s. As a sound made in the throat (especially of one near death) from 1752.

1. The baby, dressed in a flowery jumpsuit, waved her rattle.: 寶寶穿著印花的連身衣，揮動(dòng)著她手中的撥浪鼓。

2. His rhetoric sounds like the death rattle of a fading leadership.: 他的慷慨陳詞聽起來像是一個(gè)衰落的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層垂死的掙扎。

3. She slams the kitchen door so hard I hear dishes rattle.: 她把廚房門重重地關(guān)上，我甚至聽到了碟子的震顫聲。

4. If he's trying to rattle your cage, it's working.: 如果他存心要讓你不得安寧的話，那他是得逞了。