2.1.3 Звукоподражания, производимые человеком и животными
Прямое значение звукоподражаний
hue
cry
Even with the hundred thousand unfound, though they greatly coveted, the hue and cry went no further than that. [2]
bark
"Whatcha want?" he barked. [1]
laughter
titter
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]
scream
The waves swished along the smooth beach; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba-trees; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter. [2]
shriek
A native boy dashed down a grass-grown street, shrieking: “Busca el Senor Goodwin. Ha venido un telegrafo por el!” [2]
carol
Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gathered at street corners and plaintively carolled: “Un telegrafo por Senor Goodwin!” [2]
robustious
clamor
shout
When the meaning of the disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted: "Hey! Frank!" in such a robustious voice that the feeble clamor of the natives was drowned and silenced. [2]
growl
It, growling deeply – he would hear the growl in those lunatic seconds before it pounced on him and unzipped his guts. [3]
bang
It banged gustily. [3]
slam
The piano had come to a stop, and his mom's voice floated to him: “Georgie, can't you slam that door a little harder next time? Maybe you could break some of the plates in the Welsh dresser, if you really tried.” [3]
snot
“W-What a fool you are, Juh-Georgie,” Bill said, amiably enough, and pushed back some of the sick-stuff on his night table: an empty glass, a pitcher of water, Kleenex, books, a bottle of Vicks VapoRub - the smell of which Bill would associate all his life with thick, phlegmy chests and snotty noses. [3]
whisper
There followed a whispered conversation of the sort which means very little to anyone save small boys. [3]
cough
Bill's laughter turned into a coughing fit. [3]
yell
“No, no, no!” he yelled, dismayed. [3]
cry out
Then one of his feet slipped and he went sprawling, skinning one knee and crying out in pain. [3]
giggle
George giggled. “I guess so.” [3]
croon
chuckle
“They float,” the thing in the drain crooned in a clotted, chuckling voice. [3]
applause
The long lame gaps in his plays he filled up with hasty words of apology and description and swept on, seeing all that he intended to do so clearly that he esteemed it already done, and turned to me for applause. [5]
sigh
Then Charlie sighed and tugged his hair. [5]
babble
But Charlie babbled on serenely, interrupting the current of pure fancy with samples of horrible sentences that he purposed to use. [5]
sniff
An elderly gentleman called away from his lunch put an end to my search by holding the note-paper between finger and thumb and sniffing at it scornfully. [5]
mutter
“Guess I'd be in a hurry myself,” he muttered, sympathetically, as he piloted her along the crowded deck. [4]
proclaim
Everybody was in everybody else's way; nor was there one who failed to proclaim it at the top of his lungs. [4]
rap
Mr. Thurston gripped tight hold of the gunwale, and as reward for his chivalry had his knuckles rapped sharply by the oar-blade. [4]
plunk
Well, he drinks his whiskey, plunks down two horseshoe nails, and it's O.K. [4]
murmur
“Oh, you'll do!” he murmured ecstatically, bending afresh to the oars. [4]
buzz
When they reached the sand-spit, crowded with heterogeneous piles of merchandise and buzzing with men, she stopped long enough to shake hands with her ferryman. [4]
utter
Just then Frona uttered a glad little cry and darted forward. [4]
chatter
“Oh, you don't remember me!” she chattered. [4]
ring
The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. [7]
grumble
When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, – that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. [7]
scrunch
Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry – set up straight;" and pretty soon she would say, “Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry – why don't you try to behave?” [7]
who-whoo
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]
scratch
There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders. [7]
snarl
The king snarls around on him and says: “I was trying to do for the best in sellin' 'em out so quick. If the profits has turned out to be none, lackin' considable, and none to carry, is it my fault any more'n it's yourn?” [7]
peep
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]
snap
He clamped it in his paw and scowled down at it. “Who's M'Gee?” he snapped. [1]
thump
People on bicycles wobbled cautiously over the highway and now and then an anxious-looking bird thumped past on a powerscooter. [1]
neigh
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]
flap
stamp
“My very bones are chilled,” said Gimli, flapping his arms and stamping his feet. [6]
snort
A horse snorted and reared. [6]
splutter
“Ach! No!” he spluttered. “You try to choke poor Sméagol.” [6]
chuckle
croak
He seemed greatly delighted to feel the water, and chuckled to himself, sometimes even croaking in a sort of song. [6]
hum
Sam was beaming and humming to himself, but when Frodo spoke he was at first content to listen, only occasionally venturing to make an exclamation of agreement. [6]
howl
Borne upon the wind they heard the howling of wolves. [6]
Переносное значение звукоподражаний
pound
Sir John Morgan, Lafitte and other eminent swashbucklers bombarded and pounded it in the name of Abaddon. [2]
hiss
The comandante, Don Senor el Coronel Encarnacion Rios, who was loyal to the Ins and suspected Goodwin's devotion to the Outs, hissed: "Aha!" and wrote in his secret memorandum book the accusive fact that Senor Goodwin had on that momentous date received a telegram. [2]
crisp
crackle
A man on the barge leaned over from above and baptized him with crisp and crackling oaths, while the whites and Indians in the canoe laughed derisively. [4]
me-yow
Directly I could just barely hear a "me-yow! me-yow!" down there. [7]
knock
From the yells and screeches that came from the knoll the hobbits guessed that their disappearance had been discovered: Uglúk was probably knocking off a few more heads. [6]
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