mumble
mumble 英 [ˈmʌmbl] 美 [ˈmʌmbəl]
vt. 含糊地说；抿着嘴嚼 vi. 含糊地说话 n. 含糊的话；咕噜
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- To mumble is to talk quietly and indistinctly. When people speak in a mumble, it's hard to understand them.
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- vt. 含糊地说；抿着嘴嚼
- vi. 含糊地说话
- n. 含糊的话；咕噜
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1. May: (mumble) I want to be like her.
阿美：（喃喃自语）我想像她一样。
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2. What! "Frickin' Tax Man", you mumble to yourself.
什么！ 你咕哝了一声“该死的税赋！”
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3. When I ask how much they had to rely on their emergency store during the famine of 1984, they bow their heads and mumble a response before falling completely silent, their eyes welling with tears.
当我问及1984年饥荒时他们有多依赖他们的紧急仓库时，他们都垂下了脑袋，嗫嚅着，到了最后，完全没了声音，泪水夺眶而出。
- mumble (n.) 1902, from mumble (v.).
- mumble (v.) early 14c., momelen, "to eat in a slow, ineffective manner" (perhaps "to talk with one's mouth full"), probably frequentative of interjection mum. The -b- is unetymological. Meaning "to speak indistinctly" is from mid-14c. Related: Mumbled; mumbling.
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