groan
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they groan | |
| he / she / it groans | |
| past simple groaned | |
| past participle groaned | |
| -ing form groaning |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to make a long deep sound because you are annoyed, upset or in pain, or with pleasure 呻吟；叹息；哼哼 He lay on the floor groaning. 他躺在地板上呻吟。 - groan with something
to groan with pain/pleasure 痛苦地呻吟；高兴得直哼哼 - groan at something
We all groaned at his terrible jokes. 他讲的笑话很糟糕，我们都发出不满的抱怨声。 - + speech
‘It's a complete mess!’ she groaned. “这简直是一团糟！” 她叹息道。 ‘Don’t move me,’ he groaned. “别动我，”他呻吟着说。
Homophones groan | growngroan grown- groan verb
The awful jokes made us all groan. 可怕的笑话让我们都呻吟起来。
- groan noun
He let out a groan of pain. 他发出痛苦的呻吟。
- grown (past participle of grow)
The business has grown hugely in the last ten years. 在过去的十年里，这个行业发展迅速。
- grown adjective
Although he's a grown man, he'll always be our little boy. 虽然他是个成年人，但他永远是我们的小男孩。
Extra ExamplesHe groaned at the pain. 他痛苦地呻吟着。 Some of the patients were groaning with pain. 一些病人痛苦地呻吟着。 He groaned inwardly at the thought of spending another day in that place. 一想到要在那儿再待上一天，他就暗自叫苦。 She groaned out loud in protest. 她大声抱怨，以示抗议。 There's no point in moaning and groaning about not having any money. 为没钱而不停地抱怨是毫无意义的。 She tried to get up and groaned with pain. 她试图站起来，痛苦地呻吟着。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- loudly
- quietly
- softly
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- in
- with
- at
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- moan and groan
- [intransitive, transitive]
to complain about something, especially in an annoying way 呻吟： 抱怨某事，特别是以恼人的方式抱怨（1）抱怨某事- groan about something
They were all moaning and groaning about the amount of work they had. 他们对工作量都怨声载道。 - + speech
‘It's not fair!’ she groaned. “这不公平，”。她呻吟着。
- groan about something
- [intransitive]
to make a sound like a person groaning 发出似呻吟的声音
Word OriginOld English grānian, of Germanic origin; related to German greinen ‘grizzle, whine’, grinsen ‘grin’, also probably to grin.
Idioms
groan under the weight of something
- (formal)
used to say that there is too much of something 在某物的折磨（或重压）下呻吟；被某物压得喘不过气来（或无法忍受） The table groaned under the weight of the biggest buffet they had ever seen. 桌子在他们所见过的最大自助餐的重压下嘎吱作响。