toots

英 [tuːts]

美 [tuːts]

n.  (喇叭、哨子等发出的)嘟嘟声
v.  (使汽车喇叭)发出短促尖锐的声音，发出嘟嘟声
toot的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)(汽车喇叭)发出嘟嘟声
  If someonetootstheir car horn or if a car horntoots, it produces a short sound or series of sounds.
  1. People set off fireworks and tooted their car horns...
     人们点燃烟花，按响汽车喇叭。
  2. Car horns toot as cyclists dart precariously through the traffic...
     骑车人危险地在车流中飞速穿行时，汽车喇叭的嘟嘟声响成一片。
  3. A man behind her tooted angrily.
     她后面的一名男子愤怒地摁着汽车喇叭。
  4. Tootis also a noun.
     
  5. The driver gave me a wave and a toot.
     司机冲我挥挥手，按了下喇叭。

双语例句

• No word more spoke Toots that night; but he stood looking at Paul as if he liked him; and as there was company in that, and Paul was not inclined to talk, it answered his purpose better than conversation.
  我也喜欢，图茨说道。那天夜里图茨没有再说别的话；但他站在那里看着保罗，仿佛他喜欢他；由于这里有着情谊，而保罗又不想说话，这比交谈更符合他的意愿。
• Mr toots, who had been detained by an important letter from the Duke of Wellington, found Paul out after a time; and having looked at him for a long while, as before, inquired if he was fond of waistcoats.
  图茨先生由于忙着草拟惠灵顿公爵寄来的一封重要信件，刚才耽搁了一些时候，这时把保罗找到了；他像先前一样看了他好久之后问他，他是不是喜欢背心。
• After stating this curious and unexpected fact, Mr Toots fell into a deep well of silence.
  图茨先生叙述了这个奇妙的、意想不到的事实之后，掉进了沉默的深井中。
• Ideas, like ghosts ( according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves; and Toots had long left off asking any questions of his own mind.
  思想就像鬼（一般概念中的鬼）一样，必须先跟它们先谈一会儿，它们才会显示出自己，而图茨已长久停止向他的头脑提出任何问题了。
• Unless young Toots had some idea on the subject, to the expression of which he was wholly unequal.
  也许，年轻的图茨对这个问题有某些想法，可是他完全没有能力把这些想法表达出来。
• Mr Toots generally said again, after a long interval of staring and hard breathing, 'How are you?
  图茨先生在长久的注视与喘气之后，一般又会再问道，您好吗？
• Toots, as an old hand, had a desk to himself in one corner: and a magnificent man, of immense age, he looked, in Paul's young eyes, behind it.
  图茨是最大的一位，在一个角落里有他自己的一张书桌；在保罗年幼的眼睛中，他是坐在书桌后面的一位年纪很大的庄严的男子。
• Toots shor's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
  图茨绍尔的餐馆太拥挤了，再也没人会去那儿了。
• Paul thanked Mr Feeder for these hints, and pocketing his invitation, sat down on a stool by the side of Mr Toots, as usual.
  保罗谢谢菲德先生的这些指点，把请柬装进衣袋，像往常一样在图茨先生身旁的一条凳子上坐下来。
• Mr Toots responded with a chuckle.
  图茨先生吃吃地笑了一下，作为回答。