詞彙精選：grumble的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

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n.

怨言，抱怨，牢騷；嘟囔

例句：

My grumble is with the structure and organisation of the material.

我所不滿的是素材的結構和組織。

例句：

My main grumble is about the lack of privacy.

我最想抱怨的是缺乏隱私。

隆隆聲

例句：

A distant grumble of thunder comes out.

遠方雷聲隆隆。

例句：

One could often hear, far to the east, the grumble of guns.

人們經常能聽到從東邊很遠的地方傳來的隆隆槍炮聲。

v.

抱怨，發牢騷；嘟囔，喃喃地說 [I,T]

例句：

Consumers grumbled their endless complaints.

消費者無休止地抱怨。

例句：

The man is grumbling.

這人正在發牢騷。

（雷等）隆隆響 [I]

例句：

My stomach begins to grumble around lunch-time.

差不多中午飯的時候我的肚子就開始咕咕響。

例句：

It was quiet now, the thunder had grumbled away to the west.

隆隆的雷聲向西邊傳去，現在寂靜下來了。

二、詞義辨析：

complain,grumble,murmur

這些動詞均含“抱怨、埋忽”之意。complain側重因對處境不滿、待遇不公或自己有痛苦等而向別人訴說、埋怨。grumble指因對處境、待遇不滿或其他個人因素而憤憤不平地向他人訴苦或自言自語。murmur多指因不滿某人或某事而揹着人自言自語地發怨言。

三、參考例句：

A distant grumble of thunder comes out.

遠方雷聲隆隆。

My stomach begins to grumble around lunch-time.

差不多中午飯的時候我的肚子就開始咕咕響。

A lot of students grumble about heavy reading assignments.

許多學生髮牢騷說閱讀量太大。

They grumble about how hard they have to work.

他們抱怨自己工作得很辛苦。

My main grumble is about the lack of privacy.

我最想抱怨的是缺乏隱私。

Why grumble at me about your own stupid mistakes

你自己犯了愚蠢的錯誤，爲什麼向我抱怨？

One could often hear, far to the east, the grumble of guns.

人們經常能聽到從東邊很遠的地方傳來的隆隆槍炮聲。

My grumble is with the structure and organisation of the material.

我所不滿的是素材的結構和組織。

You can grumble about work not being distributed evenly or crib about you being singled out for working on harder tasks.

你可以抱怨工作分配不均或者自己被挑去做了更難的任務。