grunt
grunt 英 [grʌnt] 美 [ɡrʌnt]
n. 咕哝；呼噜声 vi. 作呼噜声；发哼声 vt. 咕哝着说
进行时:grunting 过去式:grunted 过去分词:grunted 第三人称单数:grunts 名词复数:grunts
- If your younger brother is particularly grouchy, he might simply grunt in answer to your question about whose turn it is to take out the garbage. A grunt is a short, deep sound.
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- n. 咕哝；呼噜声
- vi. 作呼噜声；发哼声
- vt. 咕哝着说
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1. No matter how bound up you are you can usually make some sort of noise, like a grunt.
无论你被捆绑到什么程度，一般情况下你都可以发出某种声音，比如咕哝。
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2. One grunt might be an accident, but in an emergency you need to communicate quickly, so don't make your safe sound anything complicated.
咕哝一声代表可能要出问题了。 有时候会发生紧急情况，你需要尽快交流，不要让安全声音过于复杂。
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3. Volunteering to do the grunt work on a project you rank high enough to walk away from shows everybody you work with that you’re strong and still in the game.
当你的级别足够高，不需要承担繁重的工作，而你依然主动承担的时候，你其实是在告诉每一个同事，你很有担当，并且跟他们同甘共苦。
- grunt (n.) 1550s, from grunt (v.); as a type of fish, from 1713, so called from the noise they make when hauled from the water; meaning "infantry soldier" emerged in U.S. military slang during Vietnam War (first recorded in print 1969); used since 1900 of various low-level workers. Grunt work first recorded 1977.
- grunt (v.) Old English grunnettan "to grunt," frequentative of grunian "to grunt," probably imitative (compare Danish grynte, Old High German grunnizon, German grunzen "to grunt," French grogner, Latin grunnire "to grunt"). Related: Grunted; grunting. Grunter "a pig" is from 1640s.
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