Whistling

(noun.) the act of whistling a tune; 'his cheerful whistling indicated that he enjoyed his work'.

柯蒂斯校对

• I say, said Legree, stamping and whistling to the dogs, wake up, some of you, and keep me company! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Lorne was sitting in a very pastoral fashion on a gate near my door, whistling. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• George neither spoke to nor looked at Legree, who did not countermand his orders, but stood, whistling, with an air of forced unconcern. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• My room door is open, and I can hear the shrill singing and whistling at this very moment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my _whistle_, but disturbing all the family. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Mr. Pickwick sat opposite the tipstaff; and the tipstaff sat with his hat between his knees, whistling a tune, and looking out of the coach window. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Meanwhile the object of this soliloquy was striding up the avenue of the Grange at a rapid pace, and whistling gayly, out of sheer light-heartedness. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He was growling again, and whistling a half-strangled whistle, being an inheritance from the bulldog side of his ancestry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Drummle, an old-looking young man of a heavy order of architecture, was whistling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Here, Bruno, he called, whistling to the lumbering Newfoundland, who came pitching tumultuously toward them. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I waited a little while, and the singing and the whistling ceased. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The Sergeant stood at the window with his hands in his pockets, looking out, and whistling the tune of ?The Last Rose of Summer softly to himself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He seemed to find an immense fund of reflection in this circumstance, and sat pondering and inwardly whistling for some time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The boy laughed too and said something which I could not catch for the whistling of the wind of our awful speed. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He renewed his whistling, Mr. Moore his reading. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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