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a light, high ringing sound 丁零声;当啷响 the tinkle of glass breaking 玻璃破碎发出的当啷声
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- faint
- gentle
- little
- …
- hear
- with a tinkle
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal)
a phone call 电话通话 - (informal)
an act of urinating 撒尿;小便 to have a tinkle 撒尿
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘tingle’): frequentative of obsolete tink ‘to chink or clink’, of imitative origin.