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whimper about sth
The child whimpered about losing his toy.
孩子因丢了玩具而呜咽。
呜咽；啜泣；低声抱怨
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呜咽；啜泣；低声抱怨
To cry or sob softly and intermittently; to make a low, whining, broken sound; to whine or complain weakly.
The child whimpered about losing his toy.
孩子因丢了玩具而呜咽。
轻声断续地哭泣
To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
低声呜咽；哀鸣；抱怨
To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
呜咽地说
To say something in a whimpering manner.
whimper
Base
原形
whimpers
3rd person
第三人称单数
whimpering
-ing
现在分词
whimpered
Past
过去式
whimpered
Past participle
过去分词
The dog whimpers when it is scared.
狗害怕时呜咽。
She whimpered softly during the movie.
她看电影时轻声啜泣。
The child is whimpering in the corner.
孩子正在角落抽泣。
规则动词
The puppy whimpered softly when I left the room.
当我离开房间时，小狗轻轻地呜咽起来。
She was whimpering in her sleep after the bad dream.
做了噩梦后，她在睡梦中低声啜泣。
He whimpered with pain as the nurse cleaned the wound.
护士清理伤口时，他疼得低声呻吟。
The child whimpered about losing his toy.
孩子因丢了玩具而呜咽。
He whimpered that he didn't want to go.
他呜咽着说他不想去。
The dog whimpered in the corner.
狗在角落里呜咽。
Not this
He whimpered fear when he saw the spider.
Use this
He whimpered in fear when he saw the spider.
Whimper 是不及物动词，不能直接跟宾语，需要加介词 in 来连接原因。
Not this
The child whimpered loudly all night.
Use this
The child cried loudly all night.
Whimper 表示低声啜泣，与 loudly 矛盾，应该使用 cry 或 sob 等表示大声哭泣的动词。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
轻声呜咽
The puppy whimpered softly in its sleep.
小狗在睡梦中轻声呜咽。
疼得低声呜咽
He whimpered in pain as the nurse cleaned the wound.
护士清理伤口时，他疼得低声呜咽。
因害怕而低声呜咽
The child whimpered with fear during the thunderstorm.
雷雨时，孩子因害怕而低声呜咽。
像孩子一样呜咽
He whimpered like a child when he lost the game.
输掉比赛时，他像孩子一样呜咽。
呜咽着道歉
She whimpered an apology before leaving the room.
她呜咽着道了歉，然后离开了房间。
不是轰然爆发，而是悄然收场；指事情以软弱无力、令人失望的方式结束。
The marriage ended not with a bang but a whimper.
这段婚姻并不是轰轰烈烈地结束，而是悄无声息地走到了尽头。
黯然退场；无精打采地结束。
The team went out of the competition with a whimper.
这支球队在比赛中黯然出局。
世界就是这样终结的——不是砰然巨响，而是低声呜咽。
In "The Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot imagines the world ending with a whimper, not a bang, to express a quiet, hopeless ending.
在《空心人》中，T.S.艾略特想象世界以呜咽而非巨响告终，表达一种寂静而绝望的结局。
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联想小狗受伤时发出“呜呜”的低声断续哭声，whim 像一阵阵的抽泣，pe 是短促尾音。
语域：neutral 常见场景：描述哭泣或哀鸣、低声抱怨、叙述中带哭声说话 该词通常用于描写人或动物因疼痛、悲伤或恐惧而小声断续地哭泣，也可指低声、带委屈地抱怨或呜咽着说出某事；多用于日常叙述或口语化描写，不属于正式书面语。
与 whimper 真正押韵的有 simper、crimper、limper，它们的重读元音和后面的 /mpə/ 与 whimper 一致；whimper 以 /hw/ 开头，这些词以其他辅音开头，但不影响押韵。whisper 拼写相近但中间是 /sp/，读作 /ˈwɪspə/，不押韵；wimp 和 whim 分别是 /wɪmp/ 和 /wɪm/，缺少 whimper 末尾的 /ə/ 或 /pə/，也不押韵。
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