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小词详解 | grouse
grouse 英 [ɡraʊs] 美 [ɡraʊs]
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外刊例句
A third group is the regulators themselves, who often privately grouse about being bewildered by their own remit and distrust other regulators with overlapping briefs.
第三类需要这种服务的群体便是监管者自身,他们经常私下抱怨被自己的工作搞晕了,也不信任工作内容近似的其他监管者。
——《经济学人》During the 1990s and 2000s, such estates and their accompanying sports of red deer stalking, grouse shooting and salmon fishing attracted international buyers, notably from England and Scandinavia.
20世纪90年代至21世纪初,这些房产及与之相伴的运动——猎马鹿、打松鸡、钓鲑鱼——吸引了国际购房者,尤其是来自英格兰和斯堪的纳维亚的买家。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] complain about something trivial; grumble
[动词] 抱怨琐事;发牢骚
这些松鸡肉烹制之前要先彻底解冻。
Allow the grouse to thaw completely before cooking it.
她老是抱怨那个贱妇是如何不把她放在眼里的。
She's always grousing about how she's been treated by the tramp like dirt.
他主要的牢骚是嫌工资太少。
His main grouse is over the inadequacy of the wage.
I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.
我是一个非常幸运的女孩,能以演戏为生!那么,为什么要闲坐在那里抱怨和牢骚一些不存在的东西呢。
carp: complain or find fault continually about trivial matters grumble: complain about something in a bad-tempered way whine: give or make a long, high-pitched complaining cry or sound