whine

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
    — The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.
  2. A peevish or self-pitying complaint or criticism.
    — I need to have a quick whine about my boss before we start talking about the holiday.
动词 v.
  1. To utter a high-pitched cry. intransitive
  2. To make a sound resembling such a cry. intransitive
    — The jet engines whined at take off.
  3. To complain or protest with a whine (compare whinge) or as if with a whine, i.e. in a peevish or self-pitying way. intransitive
    — [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
  4. To move with a whining sound. intransitive
    — The jet whined into the air.
  5. To utter with the sound of a whine. transitive
    — The child whined all his complaints.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hwīnan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hwīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian Nynorsk kvina, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine. Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (for which see dialectal English ween (“to weep, lament”)).
词源 2
From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hwīnan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hwīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian Nynorsk kvina, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine. Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (for which see dialectal English ween (“to weep, lament”)).
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