(noun.) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone.
(verb.) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds; 'he grumbled a rude response'; 'Stones grumbled down the cliff'.
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双语例句
Nay, said the Knight, an he have the gift of showing my road, I shall not grumble with him that he desires to make it pleasant. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
I've heard you often enough, mother, grumble at the English Sunday when we've been in London. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
It's all very fine,' Lavinia began to grumble, when Mrs Wilfer repeated: 'Hold! 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Never mind the commoners, whom we will leave to grumble anonymously. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
I will never grumble on that subject again. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
But she says it has been a hard week for her, so we mustn't grumble but take care of ourselves. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
When I was at home, and only knew what it was to be poor, I grumbled but didn't so much mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
In secret, too, grumbled the gaoler, looking at the written paper. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
I don't see why,' grumbled the son. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
It will hardly be enough to pay the inn bill, grumbled the Guardsman. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
The black grumbled something that I could not understand, and then I heard him unlocking the door into one of the other cells on the further side. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
At least Mr. Crawley grumbled a good deal about paying half as much to Miss Hester for her constant attendance upon the Baronet his father. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
This lamp is smoking again; I should think the servants might see that it's kept properly trimmed, he grumbled nervously. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
However, this was as good a road as we had found in Palestine, and possibly even the best, and so there was not much grumbling. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I have not been in town half-a-dozen hours, and those I have been dozing and grumbling away at the play. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
I should hear less grumbling when my tithe is paid. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
She was speaking, but I could not hear what she said, nor could I make out the low grumbling of his reply. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
It won't do to begin making a fuss about one, said Mr. Vincy, wishing to combine a little grumbling with domestic cheerfulness. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
It appears to me,' said Mr Boffin, grumbling over the fire in an injured manner, 'that the right is with me, if it's anywhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
She grumbles so much about the stairs at Heston; and the girl is to have that sloping attic over your room and mamma's. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.