I asked him what he thought, but he just grunted. 我问他在想什么,他只哼了一声。
grunt
[ noun ]
the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
<noun.event>
an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
<noun.person> infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts he went from grunt to chairman in six years
medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
<noun.animal> [ verb ]
issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
<verb.communication> He grunted his reluctant approval
Grunt \Grunt\ (gr[u^]nt), n. 1. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus {H[ae]mulon}, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt ({A. Plumieri}), and the redmouth grunt ({H. aurolineatus}), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera {Pomadasys}, {Orthopristis}, and {Pristopoma}. Called also {pigfish}, {squirrel fish}, and {grunter}; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.
3. A U. S. infantryman; -- used especially of those fighting in the war in Vietnam. [slang] [PJC]
Grunt \Grunt\ (gr[u^]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grunting}.] [OE. grunten; akin to As. grunian, G. grunzen, Dan. grynte, Sw. grymta; all prob. of imitative; or perh. akin to E. groan.] To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. --Shak.
{Grunting ox} (Zo["o]l.), the yak.
Redmouth \Red"mouth`\ (-mouth`), n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus {Diabasis}, or {H[ae]mulon}, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also {flannelmouth}, and {grunt}.
"Both bucks and does grunt softly under a variety of circumstances.
Dennis Sheehy, a Marine grunt then, knew it well.
THIS afternoon Monica Seles, the queen of women's tennis, will face the 20-year-old American, Mary Joe Fernandez, in an attempt to grunt her way to a second Australian Open crown to retain tenure of three of the four grand slam championships.
He glanced at the console with its rabbit ears antenna (that's a joke, Boris) and made a sound that sounded like a grunt.
The paper's next issue included a reproduction of what was claimed to be a letter from the front lines written by a local grunt to his mother: The soldier was homesick but feeling better now that another local boy had been transferred to his unit.
His voice ranges from a smooth operatic baritone to a wail, a cluck, a grunt.