cackled v. (尤指母鸡或鹅)咯咯叫;发出格格的笑声;喋喋不休地谈(cackle 的过去式及过去分词)
- The boy cackled with delight.
男孩高兴得格格地笑。 - Another young worker at the diner cackled with laughter when I asked her about the plague of illness which suddenly seems to be affecting so many on Grand Isle.
近日岛上盛传因为此次原油泄漏很多人似乎突然都得了病,我问一个在餐馆工作的年轻女孩怎么看,她咯咯地笑了起来。 - The old lady cackled, pleased to have produced so dramatic a reaction.
看到引起如此大的反应,老太太高兴得咯咯笑了起来。
Cackle \Cac"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cackled} (-k'ld); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Cackling}.] [OE. cakelen; cf. LG. kakeln, D.
kakelen, G. gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf.
{Gagle}, {Cake} to cackle.]
1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose
does.
When every goose is cackling. --Shak.
2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen
or a goose; to giggle. --Arbuthnot.
3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. --Johnson.