2.1.1 Звукоподражания, обозначающие звуки природы
Прямое значение звукоподражаний
echo
Now to cause laughter to echo from those lavish jungles and frowing crags where formerly rang the cries of pirate's victims; to lay aside pike and cutlass and attack with quip and jollity; to draw one saving titter of mirth from the rusty casque of Romance – this were pleasant to do in the shade of the lemon-trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling. [2]
tap
It tapped on the yellow hood of the boy's slicker, sounding to his ears like rain on a shed roof . . . a comfortable, almost cozy sound. [3]
flick
He could hear his mother playing the piano, not For Elise now but something else he didn't like so well - something that sounded dry and fussy; he could hear rain flicking steadily against the kitchen windows. [3]
rustle
The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me. [7]
thunder
Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies come tearing in, with the thunder and lightning a-ripping around and the smoke a-rolling, and everything they're told to do they up and do it. [7]
Переносное значение звукоподражаний
rattle
Over his head, a grim gust of October wind rattled the trees, now almost completely unburdened of their freight of colored leaves by the storm, which had been this year a reaper of the most ruthless sort. [3]
roar
The Dyea River as of old roared turbulently down to the sea; but its ancient banks were gored by the feet of many men, and these men labored in surging rows at the dripping tow-lines, and the deep-laden boats followed them as they fought their upward way. [4]
2.1.2 Звукоподражания, производимые различными предметами
Прямое значение звукоподражаний
jingle
Their buckles made a jolly jingling as George Denbrough ran toward his strange death. [3]
whistle
The boat nearly whistled along the diagonal channel, just a page torn from the Classified section of the Derry News, but now George imagined it as a FT boat in a war movie, like the ones he sometimes saw down at the Derry Theater with Bill at Saturday matinees. [3]
scrape
They both looked in the direction of the parlor, listening for the piano-bench to scrape back, listening for their mother's impatient footsteps. [3]
scratch
For half an hour the pen scratched without stopping. [5]
zip
splash
Zip! Splash! She shook the water from her eyes, squirming the while as some of it ran down her warm back. [4]
boom
Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom-boom-boom – twelve licks; and all still again – stiller than ever. [7]
scrape
We went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads. [7]
click
Miss Fromsett's elegant hand moved over her papers and the muted peep of the kitten at the PBX was audible at moments, and the little click of the plugs going in and out. [1]
phooey
His door closed on the pneumatic closer and made a sound like "phooey." [1]
screech
Mingled with harsh high voices as of birds of prey, and the shrill neighing of horses wild with rage and fear, there came a rending screech, shivering, rising swiftly to a piercing pitch beyond the range of hearing. [6]
thud
Iron wheels revolved there endlessly, and hammers thudded. [6]
Переносное значение звукоподражаний
snore
gutter
The tall, red, iron-clamped pump-beam rose and fell, and the pumps snored and guttered and shrieked as the first water poured out of the pipe. [5]
jangling
The “two-circle” and the “circle-and-dot” brands caused endless jangling, while every whipsaw discovered a dozen claimants. [4]
tremble
And in her eyes there was always a smiling light, just trembling on the verge of dawn. [4]
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