Word · Frequency #24895
clucks
咯咯的叫声
clucks is the plural of cluck.
the sound that a hen makes, especially when calling her chicks
- 1.
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
母鸡发出的声音,尤指抱窝或召唤小鸡时。
- 2.
Any sound similar to this.
类似这种声音的其他杂音。
- 3.
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
用来催促马匹的一种弹舌声。
母鸡发出的声音,尤指抱窝或召唤小鸡时。；类似这种声音的其他杂音。；用来催促马匹的一种弹舌声。
In use
The hen clucked loudly when she saw the cat.
I heard a soft cluck coming from the nest.
The old hen clucks to call her chicks together.
cluck
此处 cluck 为不及物动词，不带宾语。
The hen clucked.
母鸡咯咯叫。
a cluck from sth
cluck 作名词时为可数名词，指母鸡发出的短促叫声。
I heard a cluck from the hen.
我听到母鸡咯咯叫了一声。
Common mistakes
The hen is cluck.The hen is clucking.
主语 + be 后应用现在分词构成进行时；cluck 是动词原形，不能直接作表语。改为 clucking 表示“正在咯咯叫”。
I heard cluck outside.
Connections
Collocations
- a hen's cluck
- 母鸡的咯咯声
- We could hear a hen's cluck from the next yard.我们能听到隔壁院子传来一只母鸡的咯咯声。
- hens cluck
- 母鸡咯咯叫
- The hens cluck loudly every morning.母鸡每天早晨大声咯咯叫。
- cluck softly
- 轻声咯咯叫
- The hen clucked softly at her chicks.母鸡对小鸡轻声咯咯叫。
- give a cluck
- 发出咯咯声
- The hen gave a low cluck before laying her egg.母鸡在下蛋前发出低沉的咯咯声。
- clucking sound
- 咯咯声
- A clucking sound came from the chicken coop.鸡舍里传来一阵咯咯声。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
母鸡召唤小鸡时发出“咯咯”声，cluck 的读音就在模仿这种叫声。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：animal-sound descriptions、farmyard scenes、storybook narration cluck 作名词指母鸡咯咯的叫声，作动词指发出这种声音；两种用法都常见于日常口语和一般书面叙事，语域中性，没有明显的正式或非正式限制。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 duck、luck、pluck、truck 押韵（/ʌk/）。注意：clock（/klɑk/）和 click（/klɪk/）拼写相似但发音不同。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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