Word · Frequency #26548
titter
傻笑
a nervous restrained laugh
- 1.
A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
一种紧张或有些压抑的轻笑。
一种紧张或有些压抑的轻笑。；嗤笑
In use
She let out a nervous titter when she recognized the actor in the supermarket.
A quiet titter ran through the class when the teacher mispronounced a word.
There were nervous titters from the audience before the magician began his trick.
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。
titter nervously
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。
give a titter
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。
Common mistakes
The girls tittered the teacher's joke.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。
There was sudden titter in the room.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。
Connections
Collocations
- titter nervously
- 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。
- titter at
- 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。
- suppress a titter
- 忍住傻笑
- He bit his lip to suppress a titter.他咬住嘴唇忍住傻笑。
- titter with embarrassment
- 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。
- titter behind one's hand
- 捂嘴傻笑
- The girls tittered behind their hands.女孩们捂嘴傻笑。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
titter 中两个 t 像并拢的手指，捂着嘴发出‘嗤嗤’的压抑笑声
Context & Register
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。
Pronunciation & Spelling
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/.
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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