howler
howler 英 [ˈhaʊlə(r)] 美 [ˈhaʊlɚ]
n. 大声叫喊者；嚎叫的人或动物；滑稽可笑的错误
名词复数:howlers
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- n. 大声叫喊者；嚎叫的人或动物；滑稽可笑的错误
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1. The howler monkeys sounded an alarm call just after the earthquake.
吼猴们在地震一来就发出了警报呼叫。
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2. Suddenly I feel a bite and remember I had seen tropical leeches earlier. I am slapping and screeching in a way not dissimilar to a howler monkey.
突然感觉被咬了一口，记得先前看见过热带水蛭，我拍了一把并尖叫起来，和一只滑稽的猴子没有什么两样。
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3. He owns a cacao plantation in this swath of untamed cloud forest in northern Venezuela, where ocelots dart under towering saman trees and howler monkeys shriek at visitors.
他在委内瑞拉北部的这一带阴云笼罩的森林中拥有一处可可种植园，在那里豹猫在高耸的雨木下飞蹿而过，还有吼猴对着来访者尖叫。
- howler (n.) 1800, "animal that howls," originally in reference to the South American monkey, agent noun from howl (v.). Meaning "glaring blunder, ridiculous mistake" is first recorded 1890. In early telephony (1886 - c. 1920) the name of a device used by the exchange to produce a loud howl in the receiver to attract a subscriber who has not hung up his end of the connection.
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