Word · Frequency #26239
twitters
啁啾；唧唧喳喳声
twitters is the plural of twitter.
a series of chirps
- 1.
The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
鸟儿发出的一连串啁啾声。
- 2.
a series of chirps
一连串的啁啾声
- 3.
Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
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。
- 4.
A tremulous broken sound.
颤抖断续的声音。
- 5.
A slight trembling of the nerves.
神经的轻微颤抖。
鸟儿发出的一连串啁啾声。；一连串的啁啾声；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。；颤抖断续的声音。；神经的轻微颤抖。
In use
We woke up to the gentle twitter of sparrows outside our window.
The morning air was filled with the twitter of small birds in the trees.
From the garden came the cheerful twitter of finches.
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 + speech
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。
the twitter of [sth]
此处 twitter 为名词，指鸟鸣声。
I love the twitter of birds in the morning.
Connections
Collocations
- the twitter of birds
- 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。
- twittering birds
- 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。
- twitter softly
- 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。
- a faint twitter
- 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。
Idioms & figurative uses
- in a twitter
- 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。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
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。
Context & Register
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。
Pronunciation & Spelling
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.
Learn the forms together
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Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.