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单词 mutter
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mutter
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈmʌt.ər/us
/ˈmʌt̬.ɚ/
B2
tospeakquietlyand in alowvoicethat is noteasytohear, often when you areworriedorcomplainingabout something:
嘟囔，咕哝
Stop muttering andspeakup!别咕哝了，大声说出来！
He was muttering(away) tohimself.他在喃喃自语。
Laurence muttered somethingabouthiswifeandleft.劳伦斯低声说了他妻子的什么事就离开了。
He muttered somethingunderhisbreathto thepersonnext to him.他压低声音对他身边的人咕哝了些什么。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to talk to someone
  • talkA group of men were talking in the street.
  • speakCould I speak to you privately?
  • sayI couldn't hear what they were saying.
  • chatWe were just chatting about the party.
  • have a chatWe had a little chat over the garden wall.
  • chatterThey spent the morning chattering away.
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More examples
  • Oneguestat thecrowdedreceptionwasheardto mutter "It's like theBlackHole of Calcutta in here."
  • She was mutteringcursesas shefumbledfor thelightswitch.
  • 'I didn'tknowit would be thisexpensive,' he muttered.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Ways of talking
  • beg the questionidiom
  • blah
  • blether
  • blither
  • coo
  • declaim
  • declamatory
  • drone on
  • gabble
  • loose
  • mumble
  • pipe
  • ramble
  • rattle on/away
  • stage whisper
  • talk trashidiom
  • throwyourvoiceidiom
  • trill
  • word salad
  • yak
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Complaining
mutter
noun
uk
/ˈmʌt.ər/us
/ˈmʌt̬.ɚ/

mutternoun(QUIET WORDS)

[S]
(thesoundof) words being said veryquietly:
低语（声）
Iheardthesoftmutter ofvoicesin the nextroom.我听到隔壁有人轻声低语。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Ways of talking
  • beg the questionidiom
  • blah
  • blether
  • blither
  • coo
  • declaim
  • declamatory
  • drone on
  • gabble
  • loose
  • mumble
  • pipe
  • ramble
  • rattle on/away
  • stage whisper
  • talk trashidiom
  • throwyourvoiceidiom
  • trill
  • word salad
  • yak
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mutternoun(COMPLAINT)

[C]
acomplaintthat is made to only a fewpeople:
嘀咕，私下抱怨
There were muttersthatotherdepartmentsreceivedmoremoneythan ours.私下里有人发牢骚说其他部门比我们部门拿的钱多。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Complaining
  • be/go on atsomeoneidiom
  • bellyaching
  • bewail
  • brouhaha
  • bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
  • complain
  • complaining
  • create/kick up/raise a stinkidiom
  • gnashing of teethidiom
  • grouch
  • lodge
  • make noisesidiom
  • nark
  • raise a rumpusidiom
  • rumpus
  • squawk
  • start on atsomeone
  • vituperation
  • whinging
  • whiny
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(Definition ofmutterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mutter| American Dictionary

mutter
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈmʌt̬·ər/
tospeakquietlyand in avoicethat is noteasytohear, often when you areanxiousorcomplainingabout something:
[I]He muttered to himself as hewalked.
[T]Iheardhim mutter something.
"There has to be another way," he muttered.
(Definition ofmutterfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmutter

mutter
If he thought something interesting, he would desert what he was doing and amble off to meditate on the new idea, muttering to himself as he walked.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Theymutterloudly to each other through the show.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We did not sit passively on the fence, muttering under our breath, but took a pro-active approach in tabling amendments.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I imagine people are muttering to themselves about the inadequacy of legislative powers.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I have no time for those whomutterthat it is all hot air and will evaporate tomorrow.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I am not one of those people who were born muttering, "single transferable vote".
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There he was all by himself, apparently muttering to himself.
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They imagine that, by sitting on their bottoms on the benches and muttering, they will escape.
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He muttered that we did not ask him.
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I heard them muttering something about it yesterday.
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Perhaps he would care to listen to me, instead of muttering under his breath.
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Anybody who is willing, who has the strength, if he is muttering about it, can go and try.
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I think that he muttered something about my having missed out the ethnic minorities.
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Let us have no muttering under the breath.
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He was wrong when he said he was not muttering.
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