cackle
cackle 英 [ˈkækl] 美 [ˈkækəl]
n. 饶舌；咯咯声；闲谈 vi. 咯咯叫；喋喋不休；饶舌 vt. 格格笑著表示；喋喋不休地说
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- To cackle is to laugh in a loud, harsh way. Your dad's jokes might be so bad that they're funny, making you cackle every time.
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- n. 饶舌；咯咯声；闲谈
- vi. 咯咯叫；喋喋不休；饶舌
- vt. 格格笑著表示；喋喋不休地说
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1. We swear with flair, sing and cackle like hyenas. Our humour is not sophisticated but it is joyful.
我们发誓赌咒，像土狼一样唱歌闲聊，我们的幽默并不老于世故，但确实很开心。
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2. The cock, who is never so sure about anything as the hen is about the egg she has laid, immediately starts to cackle like the female of his species.
公鸡对任何东西从来没有像母鸡产下蛋时那么自信过，因此他立即开始学他的同类母鸡一样咯咯叫起来。
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3. “We are circling the drain here, and I am bailing like hell, ” said Ms. Reid, emitting an incongruous cackle, as if laughter is the only response to her plight.
“我们的船在臭水沟里打转，我已经拼命的把船中渗入的水舀出去，”里德太太说，她无奈地咯咯傻笑，似乎对她现在处境回应只有笑。
- cackle (n.) 1670s, "sound made by a hen or goose," from cackle (v.). From 1856 as "a short laugh." Cackleberries, slang for "eggs" is first recorded 1880.
- cackle (v.) early 13c., imitative of the noise of a hen (see cachinnation); perhaps partly based on Middle Dutch kake "jaw," with frequentative suffix -el (3). As "to laugh," 1712. Related: Cackled; cackling.
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