| 单词 | chitter |
| 例句 | The shadows chittered and hissed around her, a chill making goose bumps prickle her skin. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He heard the eyases chittering, saw Frightful sitting erect on her stub, and let his nictitating membranes slip across each eye. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z ‘I is hearing the little ants chittering to each other as they scuddle around in the soil.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Swifts chased and chittered, in fluttering pairs, through the sky. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Another cliff-ghast and then a third fell in the stream or on the rocks nearby, stark dead; and then the rest fled, skirling and chittering into the dark toward the north. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The square was deserted, save for a lirkmunk who chittered in annoyance at the smell and ran for the safety of a nearby thicket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He lunged at the Owner, sending the squirrels chittering in all directions. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A squirrel up in a tall oak tree set up a terrific chittering. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Gale the weasel chittered—maybe a good-bye, maybe a warning—and disappeared in the folds of her mistress’s skirts. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The rat chittered, then it ran through the open door that led back to Coraline’s own flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The squirrels chittered their fear and ran high into the treetops. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fig chittered, his head bouncing from side to side, following the dancing dots. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z ‘Just now I is hearing him chittering away to one of them in his cave!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She scurried up Hazel’s side and curled around her neck, chittering crossly as if to say: Where have you been? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z ‘Stay there please,’ he said, ‘and no chittering. I is needing to listen only to silence when I is mixing up such a knotty plexicated dream as this.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was chittering and now that all eyes were upon it, began coming down the tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A chipmunk, usually an amiable companion, chittered angrily and bit his finger when he held his hand toward it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The leaves shimmer in the heat, and the chitter of cicadas rises across the field. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Next to her on the rail, Gale the weasel chittered impatiently. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Pet made a pleased chitter in its chest, its fur ruffling like grass in wind, but Jam was still worried. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z We sit on the porch in the evening and listen to the insects chitter like the fever of our drained, exhausted Earth. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now there were no birds to sing, no squirrels to chitter, no frogs to croak, no fish to play in the forest pool. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As they followed after Mr. Viboon, a parrot flew out from the forest, chittering as it glided overhead. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It lifted its muzzle and chittered at them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Now there were no birds to sing or squirrels to chitter in the trees. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The birds are chittering and stuff, and I’m riding no hands with the wind on my face. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Outside the brush house in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hello there, Jessie,” I say as my old friend greets me with a chittering purr. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s here. You stole her,” the attic said, communicating through creaky timbers and the chittering sounds of rodents nesting in forgotten boxes of clothing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Mr. Dargel’s earliest New York songs, like “Accutane” and “Little Blue Pill,” sound like quirky, kinetic indie pop, with rubbery keyboards, chittering drum machines and darkly playful lyrics about physical infirmities. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z It becomes guttural as Tagaq drops to her knees, and she chitters high and desperate as she flutters her hands about her face. Feminist performance series brings Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq to the Broad 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Above me the chittering of birds punctuated the silence, and the smell of tidal waters drifted in from the Wilmington River, which nearly encircles the cemetery. 2010-01-29T14:51:00Z The dreams look like multicolored fireflies, whizzing around with a mischievous chittering sound. The Screenwriter of “E.T.” and “The BFG” Says Goodbye 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z A rich silence hung in the air, broken only by the occasional chitter of a kingfisher. A Family Adventure in the Wild Heart of Tanzania 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Missing in their account, obviously, was Varèse’s extraordinary instrumental palette with its heaving groans and desiccated chitters. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z Tree frogs and rain frogs croak and chirp while Antillean nighthawks chitter overhead. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Her vocal music is cast in a virtuosic, tight counterpoint of coos and chitters, emulating bird calls at one moment, yelping atop a purely musical glissando the next. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “Hang Time” begins with a visual declaration of horror but, amid its chitter and chatter, never seems to finish the conversation. Review: In ‘Hang Time,’ Lynched Men Tell Finely Tuned Tales 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “Her laughter was high-pitched like a monkey’s chittering,” Ms. Oates writes. Books of The Times: ‘Carthage,’ by Joyce Carol Oates 2014-02-05T21:32:23Z The artists and visual effects experts created 950 shots and 35 speaking characters, from alluring sea goddesses to chittering lemmings. Travails of ‘Legend of Sarila,’ Canadian Animated 3-D Film 2014-02-07T22:08:01Z A blue jay called; a red squirrel chittered. Meet the Mice Who Make the Forest 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Talk of either team winning the title is hyperbole but great for North London chitter chatter and the prospect of thrilling derby when the teams meet for the first time next month. Who is a 'must' for England in this form? - Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z It's just a little more than 100 days before the midterm elections, and the Republicans are outwardly giddy and chittering like rabid field mice. With 100 days to go, Republicans are flatlining — yet somehow still poised to win 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z And sure: Everyone loves the chittering of Flipper, until … well, Google “male dolphin gangs” — just not on your work computer. Review | ‘The Bad Guys’ is a good movie: A heist flick with humor and heart 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Sally Humphries, of Llys Nini Animal Centre, Swansea, said: "Most dogs are more in tune with our body language than our constant chitter chatter so it's not that tricky for a deaf dog to learn." Deaf rescue dog learns sign language for new home 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Its handful of houses hide behind a dune covered with morning glories and pandanus trees, the chitter of cicadas interrupted only by the cadence of waves and the call of an azure-winged jay. This pristine beach is one of Japan’s last. Soon it will be filled with concrete 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z It began to chitter with calls of alarm. Birds jumped from their nests to escape Seattle’s June heat wave. Some died. Others needed help. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z That makes cicadas, with their patient underground waiting and their sudden, chittering emergence, an excellent tool — a kind of yardstick that can be used to measure the future or the past. Cicadas like to be on time. But are they getting confused by climate change? 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z When swifts migrate, chittering clouds of birds circle big school or factory chimneys at dusk and drop into the opening a few at a time in what birdwatchers call a “swiftnado.” Fake chimneys for birds that need vertical hollows to rest 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Ultimately, though, sound can be a sign of life: from the chitter of children to the muffled voices from a neighbour’s TV. Cities are louder than ever – and it's the poor who suffer most 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Their chittering haunts every corner of the internet. Has the internet been overtaken by the eldritch horror of Yog-Sothoth? 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Carol leads the two girls like a pair of chittering ducklings across the campus, silent and abandoned during spring break. In a down-on-its-luck Oregon mill town, the savior they're waiting for is Donald Trump 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z A mindless beast of chittering teeth, eating through copies. Copyfactory : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z It doesn’t linger long before it flies off and chitters in a tree. Partnership will elevate Boise State, African park 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The paper’s UPI teletype machine, a cumbersome beast that required its own closet-sized space off the newsroom, clanged 10 bells and began chittering copy as it delivered the news. Retired WVU journalism professor Paul Atkins recalls career 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Maybe accompanied by some sort of cranky chittering noise, which anyone whose ticked off a squirrel in the woods will recognize. What Does a Marmot Sound Like? 2012-08-07T17:15:00.200Z With a huge chitter, the Countess's glass chariot, with its outriders, running footmen, and lolling waiting-women, rolled up to the door; and in a moment my lady was announced. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z "I wouldn't dare to do that," he chittered. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z A soft cooing and a low chittering note produced by striking the mandibles together. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z We thought much of these words as we passed down a sandy lane hung with honeysuckles, which were full of little birds who made a sweet chittering. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z And a soft, hard-to-place chittering sound that if you pay close attention turns out to be hundreds of human conversations weaving in and out of one another in a great collective murmuration. A Restorative Racket 2011-06-30T21:57:37Z There was a quick inflow of the populace, and the man on the platform lifted up a chittering voice. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z That chittering you'll hear as you aim is just part of my proof. Be swift, my darling 2011-05-25T17:20:56.830Z Where wilt thou cow’r thy chittering wing, And close thy ee?” Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z From dawn till noon, from an hour before sundown till the breaking foam along the wild-cherry flushed fugitively because of the crimson glow out of the west, there was a ceaseless chittering of birds. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Ms Owens also said there was "chitter chatter" on the internet but no firm intelligence that protesters were planning to disrupt April's royal wedding. May warns demo's 'mindless thugs' 2011-03-28T15:42:37Z The smoking pellet is jammed into the tiny bowl of the thick, bamboo-stemmed pipe, and all speech ceases, except the unearthly chitter of the mongoose. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Birds rarely ventured down into this snowy shadowland, except only the tiny Telateuties, blood-red as ladybirds, that ran chittering up the trees. The Three Mulla-mulgars In the vast stillness that hung like a pall over the place, the only sound was that of a bird, chittering sleepily in the dark woods. Sinister Paradise The little insect-eater chittered in alarm and dashed off to safety across the highway. Insidekick Again, by the side of the trail, there was a sudden chittering and a tiny furry form made a fantastic leap to the safety of a rattan vine. The Pirates of Shan Here was a clumsy box with wire gratings, behind which an untamed little wild beast sat up and chittered at his harmless foes. Strangers and Wayfarers If mischief came to my brother, how could I live on, listening to the chittering of his mother's Meermut asking me, 'Where is Nod?' The Three Mulla-mulgars Charley made eerie, chittering noises and settled on Denver's shoulder, waiting for his master to stroke the filaments of his blunt head. Master of the Moondog An’ he sat down like ane wi’ a fever, an’ his teeth chittered in his heid. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) The great nightcap and plaid, the dark unshaven cheeks of the man, and the white, thin hands that held the plaid about his chittering body, made a sorrowful picture. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI She was teasing a chittering, cigar-smoking trained ape on a bicycle, and she proved to be an extraordinarily ordinary, painfully plebeian girl, common in voice and diction, awkward and rather contemptuous of the stage-door Johnnie. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards The sky was blue and sweet, the yellow leaves down the lane seemed like free, wandering flowers as they chittered round the feet, making a keen, poignant, almost unbearable music to her heart. The Rainbow They chittered excitedly as they skittered down the trunk. Collector's Item The moment his eyes fell upon madam of the fluffy hair, he burst out with a loud, rapid woodpecker "chitter," gradually growing higher in key and louder in tone. A Bird-Lover in the West He had just returned from far distant lands, and all the other birds gathered chittering around him, eager to hear the news he had brought. Parables from Flowers "I figured as much," Rat said in his chittering birdlike voice. Starman's Quest A chitter of sound came from his audience, so that it appeared that they were all of a strain. The Fifth Queen Crowned You decide at last to cast off your ignorance and be of the elect—to know what chit means and if possible become a chitter. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan It winked, chittered, chortled, and chuckled with almost sinister softness. The Success Machine As he stands there the canary bird, the survivor of his happier days, to which he had clung with stubborn affection, begins “chittering feebly in its little gilt prison.” A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Then he edged back from his vantage point, and raising his fingers to his lips, made a small angry chittering, three times repeated. The Defiant Agents Snow buntings came in March, flocking familiarly round the cow-shed at the Maltese Cross, now chittering on the ridge-pole, now hovering in the air with quivering wings, warbling their loud, merry song. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands There was an endless chittering whistling tok-tok-toking in the gloom beyond the lights. Missing Link The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot. The Success Machine A way was made through the chittering crowd around the entrance. Exile He crept out of his place, gave the chittering signal call of the fluff-ball, and heard Jil-Lee's answer in a cleverly mimicked trill of a night insect. The Defiant Agents I could hear his teeth chittering as if he had come out of the sea. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn There was a chittering commotion from the natives in the trees around the sled. Missing Link He flipped the lever, and the Personnelovac, now hot with usage, winked, chittered, chortled, and chuckled with amazing speed. The Success Machine What ghost Has given you a gliff, and set you chittering? Krindlesyke But first he gave the chittering signal in four sharp bursts. The Defiant Agents The birds sit chittering in the thorn, A’ day they fare but sparely; And lang’s the night frae e’en to morn— I’m sure it’s winter fairly. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham He was conscious of the chitter of insects, but no animals lingered here. Star Born The machine, though still heated by the day's activity, seemed to take longer than usual for its chittering, chuckling examination of the pin-holed facts on the record. The Success Machine He pointed to two figures, more dead than alive, chittering with cold. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade The squirrel sat up on his hind legs and chittered, whether at the Senator's brands or their heresy it would be hard to tell; but they both laughed. The Freebooters of the Wilderness It chittered like a roulette wheel and shifted to firmly support him. Super Man and the Bug Out Four AM and I'm going nuts, hamsters in my mind spinning their wheels at a thousand RPM, chittering away. Eastern Standard Tribe At every moment he came and went between the tree-tops and the grass-plots, very important, very preoccupied, chittering and calling the while, as though he would never tire. A Man's Woman It is a long time since he came over, but he still chitters with a strong New England accent. Living Alone There was everywhere a great chittering of sparrows, and the cable-cars, as yet empty, trundled down the cross streets, the conductors cleaning the windows and metal work. Vandover and the Brute As always, cars chittering in long queues in the persimmon light of dusk, on freeways dreary with drizzle and distance, at the encoded city-bound intersections. Unmanned Art followed the dance from his ergonomic chair, swiveling around as the interface tchotchkes that branched from its undersides chittered to keep his various bones and muscles firmly supported. Eastern Standard Tribe Then at last, while it was yet dark, a faint chittering of waking birds began from under the eaves and from the apple-trees in the yard about the house. A Man's Woman Hidden in the dense jungle, some hundred yards below, sits Mrs. Locock on the matted top of a hazel, while Jane, chittering with suppressed excitement, crouches a few paces behind me. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil "I think it must be perfectly fascinating to talk that way to persons miles off," said Evadna, eying the chittering sounder with something approaching awe. Good Indian The great night-cap and plaid, the dark unshaven cheeks of the man, and the white, thin hands that held the plaid about his chittering body, made a sorrowful picture. Lay Morals And he sat down like ane wi’ a fever, an’ his teeth chittered in his heid. Merry Men From the direction of the ticket window, Presley heard the unsteady chittering of the telegraph key. The Octopus : A story of California Aroused at length by the chittering of the canary, McTeague had awakened slowly. McTeague She was as ignorant of the pang which went like an arrow through his heart at the sight of her as the bobolink which whirrs and chitters and tweedles over a grave. Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England "Why, my land, I love her," Mrs. Bett explained, "but she wiggles and chitters." Miss Lulu Bett He'll be chittering in the cold As he hovers round the fold, With his locks of glimmering gold Twined about his shoulders bare. Elves and Heroes Quivers and chitters the tail of the cheerful rattlesnake; silently slips out the forked tongue, and is as silently absorbed. The Fiend's Delight The canary in its little gilt prison chittered feebly from time to time. McTeague And he sat down like ane wi' a fever, an' his teeth chittered in his heid. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) The shadows of night wrapped him round, and little things in the hedgerows chirped and chittered mockery at him as he stumbled down the lane. A Damsel in Distress Close beside him a little brown bird chittered briskly and flew away into the dawn. The Flying U's Last Stand The birds sit chittering in the thorn, A' day they fare but sparely; And lang's the night frae e'en to morn— I'm sure it's winter fairly. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns The stone pug dog before the little stove reflected it in his protruding eyes; the canary woke and chittered feebly at this new gilt, so much brighter than the bars of its little prison. McTeague It stirred and began to chitter feebly, very sleepy and cross at being awakened. McTeague McTeague remained stupidly looking around him, now at the distant horizon, now at the ground, now at the half-dead canary chittering feebly in its little gilt prison. McTeague By the one window, chittering all day in its little gilt prison, hung the canary bird, a tiny atom of life that McTeague still clung to with a strange obstinacy. McTeague |
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