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titter at sb/sth
The audience tittered at the comedian's joke.
观众对喜剧演员的笑话吃吃地笑。
傻笑
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傻笑
a nervous restrained laugh
The audience tittered at the comedian's joke.
观众对喜剧演员的笑话吃吃地笑。
一种紧张或有些压抑的轻笑。
A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
She let out a nervous titter when she recognized the actor in the supermarket.
当她在超市认出那位演员时，她紧张地吃吃笑了一声。
A quiet titter ran through the class when the teacher mispronounced a word.
当老师念错一个单词时，教室里响起一阵轻轻的吃吃笑声。
There were nervous titters from the audience before the magician began his trick.
魔术师开始变戏法之前，观众席上传来几声紧张的吃吃笑声。
The audience tittered at the comedian's joke.
观众对喜剧演员的笑话吃吃地笑。
titter 常与副词连用，表示紧张或尴尬的笑。
She tittered nervously during the interview.
她在面试中紧张地傻笑。
作名词时常用 give a titter 表示“发出一声傻笑”。
He gave a nervous titter.
他紧张地傻笑了一声。
Not this
The girls tittered the teacher's joke.
Use this
The girls tittered at the teacher's joke.
titter 是不及物动词，不能直接跟宾语；要表示“因……而吃吃地笑/傻笑”时，必须加介词 at。
Not this
There was sudden titter in the room.
Use this
There was a sudden titter in the room.
titter 作名词是可数名词，表示“一声/一阵嗤笑”，单数形式前需要加冠词 a/an，不能像 laughter 那样作不可数名词使用。
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紧张地傻笑
She tittered nervously while waiting for her exam results.
她等待考试结果时紧张地傻笑。
对……傻笑
The audience tittered at the speaker's slip of the tongue.
观众对演讲者的口误傻笑。
忍住傻笑
He bit his lip to suppress a titter.
他咬住嘴唇忍住傻笑。
尴尬地傻笑
She tittered with embarrassment when she tripped on stage.
她在台上绊倒时，尴尬地傻笑。
捂嘴傻笑
The girls tittered behind their hands.
女孩们捂嘴傻笑。
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titter 中两个 t 像并拢的手指，捂着嘴发出‘嗤嗤’的压抑笑声
语域：neutral 常见场景：describing nervous or awkward laughter、narrating someone's short silly laugh 该词通常为中性，多用于描写一种紧张、克制或略带傻气的笑声，正式与非正式场合都能用，但不算高频词。
The target /ˈtitə/ rhymes with pita, beta, and meter (stressed /iː/ + /tə/). The words bitter, litter, and glitter share the spelling ending -tter but are pronounced with /ɪ/, not /iː/.
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