grouse是什么意思,grouse怎么用

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grouse

SAT GRE


📰 外刊例句

A third group is the regulators themselves, who often privately grouse about being bewildered by their own remit and distrust other regulators with overlapping briefs. 第三类需要这种服务的群体便是监管者自身,他们经常私下抱怨被自己的工作搞晕了,也不信任工作内容近似的其他监管者。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[verb] complain about something
trivial
; grumble
[动词] 抱怨琐事;发牢骚


💡 深入解读

Grouse 一词最早出现于 16世纪30年代,作名词表示“一种猎鸟(gamebird)”,对应今义“松鸡”或“松鸡肉”,

比如:

Allow the grouse to thaw completely before cooking it.这些松鸡肉烹制之前要先彻底解冻。

不过 grouse 同小站之前推过的staunch

steep

cue

trump

secrete

retort等一样,也是个同形异义词。其更为常用的含义是作动词表示“抱怨、发牢骚”,多见于口语或非正式表达,强调以一种令其他人感到厌烦的方式抱怨别人或者琐事,常用搭配为 grouse about sb/sth ,

比如:

She's always grousing about how she's been treated by the tramp like dirt.她老是抱怨那个贱妇是如何不把她放在眼里的。

His main grouse is over the inadequacy of the wage.另外, grouse 也可以作名词表示“牢骚、不满的缘由”或“发牢骚的人”,比如:他主要的牢骚是嫌工资太少。

I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.名人用例

carp: complain or find fault continually about trivial matters grumble: complain about something in a bad-tempered way whine: give or make a long, high-pitched complaining cry or sound我是一个非常幸运的女孩,能以演戏为生!那么,为什么要闲坐在那里抱怨和牢骚一些不存在的东西呢。出自美国女演员梅丽莎·里奥(Melissa Leo,1960年9月14日-)。2011年,里奥以《斗士》(The Fighter)一片获得金球奖最佳女配角奖和奥斯卡最佳女配角奖。同近义词


🔍 同近义词

  • carp: complain or
  • find
  • fault continually about
  • trivial
  • matters
  • grumble: complain about something in a bad-tempered way
  • whine: give or make a long, high-pitched complaining cry or sound
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