此处为不及物动词,表示鸟发出短促连续的鸣叫声。
The birds twittered in the garden.
鸟儿在花园里啁啾。
啁啾;唧唧喳喳声
先理解核心含义,再看它在真实句子里的用法。
啁啾;唧唧喳喳声
a series of chirps
The birds twittered in the garden.
鸟儿在花园里啁啾。
鸟儿发出的一连串啁啾声。
The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
一连串的啁啾声
a series of chirps
隔行扫描显示中,当图像包含接近视频格式水平分辨率的垂直细节时出现的不必要的闪烁。
Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
颤抖断续的声音。
A tremulous broken sound.
We woke up to the gentle twitter of sparrows outside our window.
我们醒来时听到窗外麻雀轻柔的啁啾声。
The morning air was filled with the twitter of small birds in the trees.
晨间的空气里充满了树林中小鸟的唧唧喳喳声。
From the garden came the cheerful twitter of finches.
从花园里传来雀鸟欢快的啁啾声。
此处为不及物动词,表示鸟发出短促连续的鸣叫声。
The birds twittered in the garden.
鸟儿在花园里啁啾。
twitter 可引出直接引语,表示用尖细、急促的声音说话。
'Where have you been?' she twittered.
“你去哪儿了?”她叽叽喳喳地说。
此处 twitter 为名词,指鸟鸣声。
I love the twitter of birds in the morning.
我喜欢早晨鸟儿啁啾的声音。
Not this
A twitter bird sat on the branch.
Use this
A twittering bird sat on the branch.
twitter 是名词或动词,不能直接作定语修饰名词;描述正在啁啾的鸟应用现在分词 twittering 作形容词。
Not this
I heard a twitter outside the window.
Use this
I heard a chirp outside the window.
twitter 作名词指一连串的啁啾声(a series of chirps),不是单个鸟叫声;表示单个声音用 chirp 或 tweet。
Not this
The birds are twittering on the tree.
Use this
The birds are twittering in the tree.
表示鸟在树上栖息或鸣叫时,英文用 in the tree(在树枝间),而 on the tree 通常指果实、树叶等附着在树表;这是中文‘树上’的直译导致的介词误用。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
鸟儿的啁啾声
We woke to the twitter of birds outside the window.
我们醒来时听到窗外鸟儿的啁啾声。
啁啾的鸟儿
Twittering birds filled the garden with their song.
啁啾的鸟儿让花园里充满歌声。
轻轻地啁啾
A wren twittered softly in the hedge.
一只鹪鹩在树篱里轻轻地啁啾。
微弱的唧唧喳喳声
A faint twitter came from the nest.
巢里传来微弱的唧唧喳喳声。
紧张不安;激动慌乱
She was all in a twitter before her job interview.
她在工作面试前紧张得不得了。
Use twitter naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 twitter 拆成 twit-ter 两个短音节,像小鸟急促轻快的“叽叽喳喳”声,嘴巴一张一合就是连续的啁啾。
语域:mixed 常见场景:自然文学中描写鸟鸣、观鸟者的笔记或散文、童话与儿童故事 作“啁啾、鸟鸣”讲时,这个词多用于书面或文学性描述,比较常见于自然文学、观鸟记录和童话故事;日常口语更常用 chirp 或 tweet,请根据语境选择。
These six words all rhyme with twitter /ˈtwɪtə/: their stressed vowel and following /tə/ match. They share the transparent spelling chunk -itter. Beware lookalikes: tweet /twiːt/ has a long /iː/, twit /twɪt/ ends in /t/, and writer /ˈraɪtə/ uses /aɪ/ — none rhymes with twitter.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.