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单词 mumble
释义
mumble
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈmʌm.bəl/us
/ˈmʌm.bəl/
B2
tospeakquietlyand in a way that is notclearso that the words aredifficulttounderstand:
含糊地说，咕哝
She mumbledsomethingabout being toobusy.她嘟囔着说太忙了。
[+ speech]"I'msorry," he mumbled.“我很抱歉，”他咕哝道。
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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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Ways of talking
  • babble
  • beg the questionidiom
  • blah
  • blether
  • blither
  • coo
  • declaim
  • declamatory
  • drone on
  • gabble
  • loose
  • pipe
  • ramble
  • rattle on/away
  • stage whisper
  • talk trashidiom
  • throwyourvoiceidiom
  • trill
  • word salad
  • yak
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(Definition ofmumblefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mumble| American Dictionary

mumble
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈmʌm·bəl/
tospeakquietlyor in anunclearway so that the words aredifficulttounderstand:
[T]She mumbled something aboutneedingto behome, thenleft.
[I]He often mumbles, and I neverknowwhat he’saskingme.
(Definition ofmumblefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmumble

mumble
Whenever the singer begins to lament his bad luck or sing in falsetto, ormumbleand cry to himself, the reverb comes on.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A lot of the producers would be mumbling amongst themselves, trying to find a solution to a problem.
From theCambridge English Corpus
At best, they may be permitted to give a static performance andmumblethrough a few disjointed lines.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This method of responding was chosen because prior work in the lab suggested that adult participants often mumbled in speech repetition tasks, making them difficult to comprehend.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Some communication difficulties were attributed to the conversational partner mumbling their words or not being able to communicate with a person who has a sensory loss.
From theCambridge English Corpus
At the left (probabilistic) choice point, a 'random' decision is made whether the user utters something incomprehensible (a 'mumble' intention) or moves to the next choice point.
From theCambridge English Corpus
She mumbled something, repeated it, and the warden gathered that she was looking for her teeth which she thought she had left under the pillow.
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It is regarded as an impertinence to suggest that he cannot be heard from the back row because he is mumbling into his notes.
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One little child of four recited with a diction which some of us might envy when mumbling our speeches.
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One of them was waving an indecipherable piece of paper at him while at the same time mumbling all sorts of incomprehensible phrases.
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We can hear them mumbling because it is getting through to them.
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If he did, he must have done so in an extraordinarily mumbled way.
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He has been mumbling away since the debate commenced.
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Yet wemumbleand grumble about the police.
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He is mumbling and speaking too fast because he does not want us to hear what he is saying.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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