| 单词 | bark |
| 释义 | Related topics: Animals, Colours & sounds, Illness & disabilitybark1 /bɑːk $ bɑːrk/ ●●○ verb 1 [intransitive]HBAC when a dog barks, it makes a short loud sound or series of sounds 〔狗〕吠叫 → growlbark at The dog always barks at strangers. 这条狗总是对着陌生人叫。2 (also bark out) [transitive]TELL somebody OFF to say something quickly in a loud voice 大声嚷，吼叫bark at ‘Don’t just stand there, give me a hand, ’ she barked at the shop assistant. “别光站在那里，帮我一把。”她对那店员吼道。3 bark up the wrong tree informalWRONG/INCORRECT to have a wrong idea, or do something in a way that will not give you the information or result you want 打错主意；认错目标 The police spent three months barking up the wrong tree on the murder investigation. 警方调查这起凶杀案时方向不对头，枉费了三个月的精力。4 [transitive]MIINJURE to rub the skin off your knee, elbow etc by falling or knocking against something 擦破，蹭破〔皮〕 SYN graze I barked my shin against the step. 我在台阶上蹭破了胫部。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusbark• They began to bark as she walked the few yards to his front door.• The symptoms are periodic spells of regression: They drop to all fours, bark, befoul their apartments.• Rin Tin Tin barked in sync, but the cowboys kept talking long after their mouths were closed.• One minute the coach was barking orders at kids kicking off down the field.• Meanwhile our lord and master would sit and drink one cup of tea after another, barking orders from time to time.• Was he about to bark out a reprimand? she wondered.• I knocked on the door; the knocks barked sharply over stone floors.bark at• Can you make the dog stop barking at the mailman?• The sergeant barked orders at us.Related topics: Animals, Pets, Plants, Colours & soundsbark2 ●●○ noun 1. HBADHP[countable] the sharp loud sound made by a dog 狗叫声，吠声2. HBP[uncountable] the outer covering of a tree 树皮 →5 see picture at 见图 tree3 C[countable] a loud sound or voice 很大的响声；吼叫声 Amy’s voice was a hoarse bark. 艾美发出的是粗哑的吼声。4. somebody’s bark is worse than their bite ANGRYused to say that someone who seems unpleasant or difficult to deal with is not really too bad 某人表面上厉害，某人嘴凶心不狠Examples from the Corpusbark• Wood and bark Wood and bark are essential constituents of a vast number of instruments.• The slow, languid monologue was followed by yips, then by barks, and more howls.• Their inner bark was used to cure frostbite.• Despite appearances, its bark is definitely worse than its bite.• Guilt, cosmic guilt, stains the knobbly bark.• Flat nostrils opened in the bark of its face.• the bark of the guns• The bark beetle in this tree does not kill them, unless they are going to die anyway.• Black too is a color, and the deep ridges of persimmon tree bark are an almost-black striated with dark gray.Origin bark1 Old English beorcan bark2 1. (1500-1600) → BARK12. (1200-1300) Old Norse börkrbark1 verbbark2 nounChinese a barks, makes dog Corpus a when it |
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