Definition of bleat in English:

bleat

verb bliːtblit

[no object]

1(of a sheep, goat, or calf) make a characteristic weak, wavering cry.
（羊）咩咩地叫；（小牛）哞哞地叫
the lamb was bleating weakly
小羊羔发出微弱的咩咩声。
Example sentencesExamples
- Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
- The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating.
- A grass-chomping, bleating, Lakeland sheep is set to become the star of a series of books written and illustrated by a local author.
- The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling.
- Their stress levels were monitored by looking at the number of times each sheep bleated, its movement within the barn and its heart-rate.
- We camped overnight but with the dawn chorus and the sheep bleating, it was hard to sleep!
- We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her.
- He nodded his head, and the ram bleated out a cry before storming off towards Diana.
- The goat bleats piteously - it knows this is not a good day.
- He slurred words, intentionally sang out of tune, bleated like a sheep, laughed at himself and made up nonsensical lines.
- They watched as the goat struggled to its feet and limped away, bleating in protest at this unexpected treatment.
- Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
- The other fiend was trying to make its way to the pasture where the sheep were bleating.
- The brain centres under observation would activate and the sheep would bleat in a particular way when they saw pictures of members of their own flock and in a similar way when they saw a shepherd they knew well.
- The sheep bleated at such unkindness, and their resistance strengthened her resolve to continue.
- In fact, I bleated at it like an aging nanny goat.
- On tour, this dependency was even more intensified; we used to joke in the airports, pretending we were sheep, bleating as we waited for someone to tell us where to go.
- The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths.
- It was silent in the little old town on the hill; the only sounds to be heard came from the wind whispering through the treetops and the sheep bleating quietly in their pens.
- When I park near the dunes, I hear what sounds like a goat bleating beyond the vast surrounding sugarcane fields, which can't be right - there's no farm in sight.
Synonyms
baa, maa, cry, call
North American informal blat
1. 1.1reporting verb Speak or complain in a weak, querulous, or foolish way.
  低声抱怨，噜里噜苏地发牢骚
  it's no good just bleating on about the rising tide of crime
  光抱怨犯罪率不断上升丝毫无补于事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the time he said, ‘Mr Gilchrist has gone into this dispute roaring like a lion and is coming out bleating like a lamb’.
  ‘The unions are always bleating about exploration companies hiring people from abroad, but what's the option when these professionals are just not available here?’ he said.
  He should tell the unions to stop bleating about foreign workers - even if they dress their warnings with expressions of concern - and worry instead about how they can deliver greater productivity from their members.
  They would be bleating and complaining that this Government was not involved in the Solomon Islands.
  She thinks I spend all these hours on the computer looking at pornography or some other harmless pursuit; if she knew I was bleating on about life, the universe and everything she would get worried.
  ‘If it lasted a week, it would be okay,’ he bleats, ‘but it lasts a month!’
  And to promote her movies, Jennifer Aniston, well, bleats on endlessly about her life.
  Internet piracy is ‘cyber-theft on a huge scale, and it's a very big obstacle to the music industry's own advances to develop legitimate ways for consumers to enjoy music on-line,’ the group bleats.
  ‘Everything about him was right,’ she bleats, apparently failing to notice that he had a fake plastic face.
  I didn't want to go back to their circles and listen to them bleat like herds of sheep.
  ‘This Irish son has moved with the times,’ he bleats meaningfully.
  I think she must be insecure or something, as in her footage she bleats about having ‘too many faults’ when the cameras follow her into the change room.
  Wilting with shame, he bleats, ‘I have no hand in all this… all this that has happened.’
  And you are president of an organisation which bleats about caring for ladies' football, handball and even rounders!
  Alexis de Tocqueville would marvel at what bleating sheep we have become.
  Prepare for 2018, he bleats - only 13 years from today!
  Type that address into your Web browser, though, and a message bleats, ‘Site Terminated for Failure to Pay Bills.’
  So, day one, class one, we fire up the software and a dismayed voice instantly bleats from the back of the room, ‘But this isn't like the old system!’
  He senses that Europe's concerns aren't getting a hearing in America because Europe bleats with a voice which is both confused and hypocritical.
  A Greens apparatchik phones the station and bleats to the producer.
  If any proof were needed, then the fact that the Human Rights brigade are bleating and complaining about it must show it is a good thing.
  It's time you stopped listening to those insipid ‘advisors’, whoever they may be, as well as what the press are bleating on about, and reverted to your true fighting style.
  It doesn't come out of thin air - down the line, it might even come out of the pockets of all those little people he bleats on about.
  Why, I remember when my own won the pig competition in the county fair, it made my heart bleat with pride and joy.
  How many times have we heard the supermarkets bleating on about ‘it is customer demand’ when challenged about their imports of meat, poultry, milk and other produce that they could have bought local?
  So long as this is done by a person who has already purchased a DVD, and strictly for their own use, it should fall under the fair use exception that the DCMA bleats about protecting.
  And now they come to this chamber, bleating, awash with crocodile tears and pretending to be the custodians of free speech - pretending to be the custodians of this institution.
  ‘I suppose it doesn't matter,’ I heard her bleat behind me.
  These people are sometimes seen dashing from the bus stop, with their Gucci yoga mats nestled under their arms, bleating, ‘Ohmygod if I'm late to class Swami will so kill me!’
  Synonyms
  complain, moan, mutter, grumble, grouse, groan, grouch, growl, carp, snivel, make a fuss
  Scottish &amp Irish gurn
  informal gripe, beef, bellyache, bitch, whinge, sound off, go on
  British informal chunter, create, be on at someone
  Northern English informal mither
  North American informal kvetch
  South African informal chirp
  British dated crib, natter

noun bliːtblit

1The weak, wavering cry made by a sheep, goat, or calf.
（羊的）咩咩声；（小牛的）哞声
the distant bleat of sheep
远处的羊叫声。
Example sentencesExamples
- To lure them from the dense woody thickets scattered through the arid open savannas, he used the ultimate bait: the ‘plaintive bleat of a wounded baby buffalo.’
- On TV screens across the globe, for more than three months now, the sheep have been jumping into the ditch without a bleat of protest.
- I amused myself by calling people from the sheep barn and leaving the bleats of shorn sheep on their machines.
- From one side came the cry of curlews, from the other the bleat of sheep.
- A llama's whining bleat sounded through the veils of sleep, jolting me to bleary awareness.
- Their typical call is a mingled bray and bleat, followed by a snorted inhale sounding like an oak dining table being dragged across a hardwood floor.
- There were other sounds in the distance: the muted shouting, the bleat of llamas, the distant bustle of the town.
- Only the gentle buzz of the mechanical shears kind, the chatter of 300 onlookers and the odd sheep's bleat could be heard as 33 of the Mid West's best shearers took part in Geraldton first speed shearing competition.
- From the kitchen comes the less violent bleating of the baby lambs, and in the distance the occasional deeper bleat of a sheep or low of a cow.
- On delicate feet they tripped from the road, the young ones uttering their plaintive bleats.
- The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need.
- Other utilized techniques were scent stations using cougar urine, catnip, or other scents, and recorded sounds such as cougar screams, predator calls, and deer bleats.
- The cloning of human beings has seemed inevitable since Dolly took her first bleat, and we should be relieved that it was done by scientists in a laboratory, not by wild-eyed members of some cult.
- He ignored the sheep's little bleats of protest and only focused on which sheep his arrow hit.
- We'd pass them on our daily walks and I swear their monotone bleats seemed to be saying, Blaaah, blaaah, blaaah.
- There was that permeating smell of animals and damp straw, the bleat of a llama came from a neighbouring stall.
- The lands beyond are filled with a chorus of bleats and croaks and barks.
1. 1.1 A person's weak or plaintive cry.
  （人的）微弱（或悲哀）的叫声
  his despairing bleat touched her heart
  他绝望的哀鸣触动了她的心。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Without warning, the machine bleats: ‘It's not my fault ’in a piteous voice.
  Still, when the bus stopped for any length of time, the bleats of goaty anguish would start up again, and my companion and I would glance at each other.
  Manifestation of my words came fourteen years after I'd spoken there but at the time it was only an honest bleat of frustration with a system that was reprehensible.
  First Joey, his voice a mutant-goat bleat, succumbed to lymphoma in 2001.
  His voice is a harsh, nasal, confused, emphatic bleat, clamping down on certain words and rolling tricky internal rhymes around in his mouth until they come out all broken.
  There was a sudden sheep-like silence broken only by a bleat - we had been stumped, outwitted and outclassed by an obese, middle-aged rube.
  Synonyms
  whine, cry, sniffle, snivel, sob, moan, bleat, mewl, wail, groan
2. 1.2 A complaint.
  〈非正式〉抱怨，牢骚
  they're hoping that I'll bow to their idiotic arrangements without a bleat
  他们希望我毫无怨言地迁就他们愚蠢的安排。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here is a bleat from a disgruntled Indian, pointing out the obvious from one side of the culture war.
  The great philanthropist, in other words, is financed by mere mortals who stupidly bear their taxes without so much as a plaintive bleat.
  The chiefs of the association are unlikely to pay much heed to a rural bleat, even if the problem is almost nation-wide.
  I'm really grateful to all you folks who answered my bleat about financial support for Catholic apostolates yesterday!
  The latest bleat seems to be: those Democrats, that Jesse Jackson, they have unclean hands and double standards.
  Already I can hear the bleat of anxious readers: the word ‘independence’, and the concept it embodies, is problematic.
  My objections are not the usual huge-corporate-malls-are-soulless rants, or the cars-destroy-the-environment bleats you usually get from the tree-huggers.
  The only bleat was City's failure to turn such superiority into goals.
  Their MPs voted for the anti-democratic state of emergency without a bleat of protest.
  The eternal bleat from the Right is that they are being prevented from asking legitimate questions by an hysterical climate of political-correctness.
  Seguis ends his pathetic bleat with this statement to the terrorists.
  I can't tell if these bleats about Rod Serling or the Palestinians are diluting your humor work, because I can't claim to know it well enough, but I certainly have my suspicions.
  That means an end to bleats of: ‘Dad, the internet is down.’
  Incidentally, I don't know why whingeing has to start with a bleat.
  We have heard the same bleats from our own Left ad nauseam.
  And, he repeats the bleats about how pure and dedicated scientists would never get into ‘showbiz,’ nor would they ever try for a prize.
  Again the answer drifted down, this time in a long-drawn-out bleat of protest: ‘Nooooo!’
  Contrary to Dembski's bleats, the evidence that complex biological systems are the product of evolution is sufficient to convince just about every scientist who has ever considered the matter.
  The ubiquitous bleats about international law always seem to restrain one party whilst leaving the other unscolded.
  But this paper does carry a different tone to previous bleats by the bosses' union that more investment is needed in delivery mechanisms.

Derivatives

bleater

noun

On Friday night, the bleaters were at it again when he lined up on Nathan Ablett instead of Cameron Mooney.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is the compulsion to resort to hyperbole that tells me how superficial the middle class bleaters' understanding of, and commitment to, reconciliation is.
- It wasn't just the doo-woppers (Platters, Marcels) and Italian-American bleaters (Freddy Cannon, Connie Francis) who padded or enriched their repertoire with pop oldies.
- The Cabinet opponents seem to amount to little more than a clutch of powerless bleaters.
- If we did invade, these bleaters would start moaning about imperialism.

Origin

Old English blǣtan, of imitative origin.

Rhymes

accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat

Definition of bleat in US English:

bleat

verbblitblēt

[no object]

1(of a sheep, goat, or calf) make a characteristic wavering cry.
（羊）咩咩地叫；（小牛）哞哞地叫
the lamb was bleating weakly
小羊羔发出微弱的咩咩声。
figurative handing the mike to some woman who starts bleating out rap rhymes
Example sentencesExamples
- The brain centres under observation would activate and the sheep would bleat in a particular way when they saw pictures of members of their own flock and in a similar way when they saw a shepherd they knew well.
- When I park near the dunes, I hear what sounds like a goat bleating beyond the vast surrounding sugarcane fields, which can't be right - there's no farm in sight.
- He nodded his head, and the ram bleated out a cry before storming off towards Diana.
- We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her.
- Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes.
- We camped overnight but with the dawn chorus and the sheep bleating, it was hard to sleep!
- The sheep bleated at such unkindness, and their resistance strengthened her resolve to continue.
- In fact, I bleated at it like an aging nanny goat.
- The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths.
- He slurred words, intentionally sang out of tune, bleated like a sheep, laughed at himself and made up nonsensical lines.
- The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling.
- The other fiend was trying to make its way to the pasture where the sheep were bleating.
- The goat bleats piteously - it knows this is not a good day.
- A grass-chomping, bleating, Lakeland sheep is set to become the star of a series of books written and illustrated by a local author.
- On tour, this dependency was even more intensified; we used to joke in the airports, pretending we were sheep, bleating as we waited for someone to tell us where to go.
- Their stress levels were monitored by looking at the number of times each sheep bleated, its movement within the barn and its heart-rate.
- Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
- They watched as the goat struggled to its feet and limped away, bleating in protest at this unexpected treatment.
- The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating.
- It was silent in the little old town on the hill; the only sounds to be heard came from the wind whispering through the treetops and the sheep bleating quietly in their pens.
Synonyms
baa, maa, cry, call
1. 1.1reporting verb Speak or complain in a weak, querulous, or foolish way.
  低声抱怨，噜里噜苏地发牢骚
  he bleated incoherently about the report
  Example sentencesExamples
  They would be bleating and complaining that this Government was not involved in the Solomon Islands.
  So, day one, class one, we fire up the software and a dismayed voice instantly bleats from the back of the room, ‘But this isn't like the old system!’
  And now they come to this chamber, bleating, awash with crocodile tears and pretending to be the custodians of free speech - pretending to be the custodians of this institution.
  Wilting with shame, he bleats, ‘I have no hand in all this… all this that has happened.’
  She thinks I spend all these hours on the computer looking at pornography or some other harmless pursuit; if she knew I was bleating on about life, the universe and everything she would get worried.
  At the time he said, ‘Mr Gilchrist has gone into this dispute roaring like a lion and is coming out bleating like a lamb’.
  ‘This Irish son has moved with the times,’ he bleats meaningfully.
  Alexis de Tocqueville would marvel at what bleating sheep we have become.
  These people are sometimes seen dashing from the bus stop, with their Gucci yoga mats nestled under their arms, bleating, ‘Ohmygod if I'm late to class Swami will so kill me!’
  And you are president of an organisation which bleats about caring for ladies' football, handball and even rounders!
  It's time you stopped listening to those insipid ‘advisors’, whoever they may be, as well as what the press are bleating on about, and reverted to your true fighting style.
  He should tell the unions to stop bleating about foreign workers - even if they dress their warnings with expressions of concern - and worry instead about how they can deliver greater productivity from their members.
  A Greens apparatchik phones the station and bleats to the producer.
  I didn't want to go back to their circles and listen to them bleat like herds of sheep.
  Internet piracy is ‘cyber-theft on a huge scale, and it's a very big obstacle to the music industry's own advances to develop legitimate ways for consumers to enjoy music on-line,’ the group bleats.
  ‘If it lasted a week, it would be okay,’ he bleats, ‘but it lasts a month!’
  Type that address into your Web browser, though, and a message bleats, ‘Site Terminated for Failure to Pay Bills.’
  He senses that Europe's concerns aren't getting a hearing in America because Europe bleats with a voice which is both confused and hypocritical.
  Prepare for 2018, he bleats - only 13 years from today!
  It doesn't come out of thin air - down the line, it might even come out of the pockets of all those little people he bleats on about.
  I think she must be insecure or something, as in her footage she bleats about having ‘too many faults’ when the cameras follow her into the change room.
  ‘The unions are always bleating about exploration companies hiring people from abroad, but what's the option when these professionals are just not available here?’ he said.
  If any proof were needed, then the fact that the Human Rights brigade are bleating and complaining about it must show it is a good thing.
  Why, I remember when my own won the pig competition in the county fair, it made my heart bleat with pride and joy.
  So long as this is done by a person who has already purchased a DVD, and strictly for their own use, it should fall under the fair use exception that the DCMA bleats about protecting.
  And to promote her movies, Jennifer Aniston, well, bleats on endlessly about her life.
  How many times have we heard the supermarkets bleating on about ‘it is customer demand’ when challenged about their imports of meat, poultry, milk and other produce that they could have bought local?
  ‘I suppose it doesn't matter,’ I heard her bleat behind me.
  ‘Everything about him was right,’ she bleats, apparently failing to notice that he had a fake plastic face.
  Synonyms
  complain, moan, mutter, grumble, grouse, groan, grouch, growl, carp, snivel, make a fuss

nounblitblēt

1The wavering cry made by a sheep, goat, or calf.
（羊的）咩咩声；（小牛的）哞声
the distant bleat of sheep in the field
远处的羊叫声。
Example sentencesExamples
- Other utilized techniques were scent stations using cougar urine, catnip, or other scents, and recorded sounds such as cougar screams, predator calls, and deer bleats.
- On TV screens across the globe, for more than three months now, the sheep have been jumping into the ditch without a bleat of protest.
- Only the gentle buzz of the mechanical shears kind, the chatter of 300 onlookers and the odd sheep's bleat could be heard as 33 of the Mid West's best shearers took part in Geraldton first speed shearing competition.
- Their typical call is a mingled bray and bleat, followed by a snorted inhale sounding like an oak dining table being dragged across a hardwood floor.
- There were other sounds in the distance: the muted shouting, the bleat of llamas, the distant bustle of the town.
- The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need.
- The lands beyond are filled with a chorus of bleats and croaks and barks.
- A llama's whining bleat sounded through the veils of sleep, jolting me to bleary awareness.
- We'd pass them on our daily walks and I swear their monotone bleats seemed to be saying, Blaaah, blaaah, blaaah.
- On delicate feet they tripped from the road, the young ones uttering their plaintive bleats.
- From one side came the cry of curlews, from the other the bleat of sheep.
- He ignored the sheep's little bleats of protest and only focused on which sheep his arrow hit.
- From the kitchen comes the less violent bleating of the baby lambs, and in the distance the occasional deeper bleat of a sheep or low of a cow.
- To lure them from the dense woody thickets scattered through the arid open savannas, he used the ultimate bait: the ‘plaintive bleat of a wounded baby buffalo.’
- The cloning of human beings has seemed inevitable since Dolly took her first bleat, and we should be relieved that it was done by scientists in a laboratory, not by wild-eyed members of some cult.
- I amused myself by calling people from the sheep barn and leaving the bleats of shorn sheep on their machines.
- There was that permeating smell of animals and damp straw, the bleat of a llama came from a neighbouring stall.
1. 1.1 A person's weak or plaintive cry.
  （人的）微弱（或悲哀）的叫声
  his despairing bleat touched her heart
  他绝望的哀鸣触动了她的心。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was a sudden sheep-like silence broken only by a bleat - we had been stumped, outwitted and outclassed by an obese, middle-aged rube.
  His voice is a harsh, nasal, confused, emphatic bleat, clamping down on certain words and rolling tricky internal rhymes around in his mouth until they come out all broken.
  Manifestation of my words came fourteen years after I'd spoken there but at the time it was only an honest bleat of frustration with a system that was reprehensible.
  First Joey, his voice a mutant-goat bleat, succumbed to lymphoma in 2001.
  Without warning, the machine bleats: ‘It's not my fault ’in a piteous voice.
  Still, when the bus stopped for any length of time, the bleats of goaty anguish would start up again, and my companion and I would glance at each other.
  Synonyms
  whine, cry, sniffle, snivel, sob, moan, bleat, mewl, wail, groan
2. 1.2 A complaint.
  〈非正式〉抱怨，牢骚
  they're hoping that I'll bow to their idiotic arrangements without a bleat
  他们希望我毫无怨言地迁就他们愚蠢的安排。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Already I can hear the bleat of anxious readers: the word ‘independence’, and the concept it embodies, is problematic.
  The latest bleat seems to be: those Democrats, that Jesse Jackson, they have unclean hands and double standards.
  The great philanthropist, in other words, is financed by mere mortals who stupidly bear their taxes without so much as a plaintive bleat.
  Incidentally, I don't know why whingeing has to start with a bleat.
  Their MPs voted for the anti-democratic state of emergency without a bleat of protest.
  That means an end to bleats of: ‘Dad, the internet is down.’
  The chiefs of the association are unlikely to pay much heed to a rural bleat, even if the problem is almost nation-wide.
  My objections are not the usual huge-corporate-malls-are-soulless rants, or the cars-destroy-the-environment bleats you usually get from the tree-huggers.
  The ubiquitous bleats about international law always seem to restrain one party whilst leaving the other unscolded.
  But this paper does carry a different tone to previous bleats by the bosses' union that more investment is needed in delivery mechanisms.
  And, he repeats the bleats about how pure and dedicated scientists would never get into ‘showbiz,’ nor would they ever try for a prize.
  I can't tell if these bleats about Rod Serling or the Palestinians are diluting your humor work, because I can't claim to know it well enough, but I certainly have my suspicions.
  Contrary to Dembski's bleats, the evidence that complex biological systems are the product of evolution is sufficient to convince just about every scientist who has ever considered the matter.
  Seguis ends his pathetic bleat with this statement to the terrorists.
  The only bleat was City's failure to turn such superiority into goals.
  Here is a bleat from a disgruntled Indian, pointing out the obvious from one side of the culture war.
  Again the answer drifted down, this time in a long-drawn-out bleat of protest: ‘Nooooo!’
  I'm really grateful to all you folks who answered my bleat about financial support for Catholic apostolates yesterday!
  The eternal bleat from the Right is that they are being prevented from asking legitimate questions by an hysterical climate of political-correctness.
  We have heard the same bleats from our own Left ad nauseam.

Origin

Old English blǣtan, of imitative origin.

单词	bleat
释义	Definition of bleat in English: bleat verb bliːtblit [no object] 1(of a sheep, goat, or calf) make a characteristic weak, wavering cry. （羊）咩咩地叫；（小牛）哞哞地叫 the lamb was bleating weakly 小羊羔发出微弱的咩咩声。 Example sentencesExamples Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously. The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating. A grass-chomping, bleating, Lakeland sheep is set to become the star of a series of books written and illustrated by a local author. The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling. Their stress levels were monitored by looking at the number of times each sheep bleated, its movement within the barn and its heart-rate. We camped overnight but with the dawn chorus and the sheep bleating, it was hard to sleep! We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her. He nodded his head, and the ram bleated out a cry before storming off towards Diana. The goat bleats piteously - it knows this is not a good day. He slurred words, intentionally sang out of tune, bleated like a sheep, laughed at himself and made up nonsensical lines. They watched as the goat struggled to its feet and limped away, bleating in protest at this unexpected treatment. Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes. The other fiend was trying to make its way to the pasture where the sheep were bleating. The brain centres under observation would activate and the sheep would bleat in a particular way when they saw pictures of members of their own flock and in a similar way when they saw a shepherd they knew well. The sheep bleated at such unkindness, and their resistance strengthened her resolve to continue. In fact, I bleated at it like an aging nanny goat. On tour, this dependency was even more intensified; we used to joke in the airports, pretending we were sheep, bleating as we waited for someone to tell us where to go. The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths. It was silent in the little old town on the hill; the only sounds to be heard came from the wind whispering through the treetops and the sheep bleating quietly in their pens. When I park near the dunes, I hear what sounds like a goat bleating beyond the vast surrounding sugarcane fields, which can't be right - there's no farm in sight. Synonyms baa, maa, cry, call North American informal blat 1.1reporting verb Speak or complain in a weak, querulous, or foolish way. 低声抱怨，噜里噜苏地发牢骚 it's no good just bleating on about the rising tide of crime 光抱怨犯罪率不断上升丝毫无补于事。 Example sentencesExamples At the time he said, ‘Mr Gilchrist has gone into this dispute roaring like a lion and is coming out bleating like a lamb’. ‘The unions are always bleating about exploration companies hiring people from abroad, but what's the option when these professionals are just not available here?’ he said. He should tell the unions to stop bleating about foreign workers - even if they dress their warnings with expressions of concern - and worry instead about how they can deliver greater productivity from their members. They would be bleating and complaining that this Government was not involved in the Solomon Islands. She thinks I spend all these hours on the computer looking at pornography or some other harmless pursuit; if she knew I was bleating on about life, the universe and everything she would get worried. ‘If it lasted a week, it would be okay,’ he bleats, ‘but it lasts a month!’ And to promote her movies, Jennifer Aniston, well, bleats on endlessly about her life. Internet piracy is ‘cyber-theft on a huge scale, and it's a very big obstacle to the music industry's own advances to develop legitimate ways for consumers to enjoy music on-line,’ the group bleats. ‘Everything about him was right,’ she bleats, apparently failing to notice that he had a fake plastic face. I didn't want to go back to their circles and listen to them bleat like herds of sheep. ‘This Irish son has moved with the times,’ he bleats meaningfully. I think she must be insecure or something, as in her footage she bleats about having ‘too many faults’ when the cameras follow her into the change room. Wilting with shame, he bleats, ‘I have no hand in all this… all this that has happened.’ And you are president of an organisation which bleats about caring for ladies' football, handball and even rounders! Alexis de Tocqueville would marvel at what bleating sheep we have become. Prepare for 2018, he bleats - only 13 years from today! Type that address into your Web browser, though, and a message bleats, ‘Site Terminated for Failure to Pay Bills.’ So, day one, class one, we fire up the software and a dismayed voice instantly bleats from the back of the room, ‘But this isn't like the old system!’ He senses that Europe's concerns aren't getting a hearing in America because Europe bleats with a voice which is both confused and hypocritical. A Greens apparatchik phones the station and bleats to the producer. If any proof were needed, then the fact that the Human Rights brigade are bleating and complaining about it must show it is a good thing. It's time you stopped listening to those insipid ‘advisors’, whoever they may be, as well as what the press are bleating on about, and reverted to your true fighting style. It doesn't come out of thin air - down the line, it might even come out of the pockets of all those little people he bleats on about. Why, I remember when my own won the pig competition in the county fair, it made my heart bleat with pride and joy. How many times have we heard the supermarkets bleating on about ‘it is customer demand’ when challenged about their imports of meat, poultry, milk and other produce that they could have bought local? So long as this is done by a person who has already purchased a DVD, and strictly for their own use, it should fall under the fair use exception that the DCMA bleats about protecting. And now they come to this chamber, bleating, awash with crocodile tears and pretending to be the custodians of free speech - pretending to be the custodians of this institution. ‘I suppose it doesn't matter,’ I heard her bleat behind me. These people are sometimes seen dashing from the bus stop, with their Gucci yoga mats nestled under their arms, bleating, ‘Ohmygod if I'm late to class Swami will so kill me!’ Synonyms complain, moan, mutter, grumble, grouse, groan, grouch, growl, carp, snivel, make a fuss Scottish &amp Irish gurn informal gripe, beef, bellyache, bitch, whinge, sound off, go on British informal chunter, create, be on at someone Northern English informal mither North American informal kvetch South African informal chirp British dated crib, natter noun bliːtblit 1The weak, wavering cry made by a sheep, goat, or calf. （羊的）咩咩声；（小牛的）哞声 the distant bleat of sheep 远处的羊叫声。 Example sentencesExamples To lure them from the dense woody thickets scattered through the arid open savannas, he used the ultimate bait: the ‘plaintive bleat of a wounded baby buffalo.’ On TV screens across the globe, for more than three months now, the sheep have been jumping into the ditch without a bleat of protest. I amused myself by calling people from the sheep barn and leaving the bleats of shorn sheep on their machines. From one side came the cry of curlews, from the other the bleat of sheep. A llama's whining bleat sounded through the veils of sleep, jolting me to bleary awareness. Their typical call is a mingled bray and bleat, followed by a snorted inhale sounding like an oak dining table being dragged across a hardwood floor. There were other sounds in the distance: the muted shouting, the bleat of llamas, the distant bustle of the town. Only the gentle buzz of the mechanical shears kind, the chatter of 300 onlookers and the odd sheep's bleat could be heard as 33 of the Mid West's best shearers took part in Geraldton first speed shearing competition. From the kitchen comes the less violent bleating of the baby lambs, and in the distance the occasional deeper bleat of a sheep or low of a cow. On delicate feet they tripped from the road, the young ones uttering their plaintive bleats. The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need. Other utilized techniques were scent stations using cougar urine, catnip, or other scents, and recorded sounds such as cougar screams, predator calls, and deer bleats. The cloning of human beings has seemed inevitable since Dolly took her first bleat, and we should be relieved that it was done by scientists in a laboratory, not by wild-eyed members of some cult. He ignored the sheep's little bleats of protest and only focused on which sheep his arrow hit. We'd pass them on our daily walks and I swear their monotone bleats seemed to be saying, Blaaah, blaaah, blaaah. There was that permeating smell of animals and damp straw, the bleat of a llama came from a neighbouring stall. The lands beyond are filled with a chorus of bleats and croaks and barks. 1.1 A person's weak or plaintive cry. （人的）微弱（或悲哀）的叫声 his despairing bleat touched her heart 他绝望的哀鸣触动了她的心。 Example sentencesExamples Without warning, the machine bleats: ‘It's not my fault ’in a piteous voice. Still, when the bus stopped for any length of time, the bleats of goaty anguish would start up again, and my companion and I would glance at each other. Manifestation of my words came fourteen years after I'd spoken there but at the time it was only an honest bleat of frustration with a system that was reprehensible. First Joey, his voice a mutant-goat bleat, succumbed to lymphoma in 2001. His voice is a harsh, nasal, confused, emphatic bleat, clamping down on certain words and rolling tricky internal rhymes around in his mouth until they come out all broken. There was a sudden sheep-like silence broken only by a bleat - we had been stumped, outwitted and outclassed by an obese, middle-aged rube. Synonyms whine, cry, sniffle, snivel, sob, moan, bleat, mewl, wail, groan 1.2 A complaint. 〈非正式〉抱怨，牢骚 they're hoping that I'll bow to their idiotic arrangements without a bleat 他们希望我毫无怨言地迁就他们愚蠢的安排。 Example sentencesExamples Here is a bleat from a disgruntled Indian, pointing out the obvious from one side of the culture war. The great philanthropist, in other words, is financed by mere mortals who stupidly bear their taxes without so much as a plaintive bleat. The chiefs of the association are unlikely to pay much heed to a rural bleat, even if the problem is almost nation-wide. I'm really grateful to all you folks who answered my bleat about financial support for Catholic apostolates yesterday! The latest bleat seems to be: those Democrats, that Jesse Jackson, they have unclean hands and double standards. Already I can hear the bleat of anxious readers: the word ‘independence’, and the concept it embodies, is problematic. My objections are not the usual huge-corporate-malls-are-soulless rants, or the cars-destroy-the-environment bleats you usually get from the tree-huggers. The only bleat was City's failure to turn such superiority into goals. Their MPs voted for the anti-democratic state of emergency without a bleat of protest. The eternal bleat from the Right is that they are being prevented from asking legitimate questions by an hysterical climate of political-correctness. Seguis ends his pathetic bleat with this statement to the terrorists. I can't tell if these bleats about Rod Serling or the Palestinians are diluting your humor work, because I can't claim to know it well enough, but I certainly have my suspicions. That means an end to bleats of: ‘Dad, the internet is down.’ Incidentally, I don't know why whingeing has to start with a bleat. We have heard the same bleats from our own Left ad nauseam. And, he repeats the bleats about how pure and dedicated scientists would never get into ‘showbiz,’ nor would they ever try for a prize. Again the answer drifted down, this time in a long-drawn-out bleat of protest: ‘Nooooo!’ Contrary to Dembski's bleats, the evidence that complex biological systems are the product of evolution is sufficient to convince just about every scientist who has ever considered the matter. The ubiquitous bleats about international law always seem to restrain one party whilst leaving the other unscolded. But this paper does carry a different tone to previous bleats by the bosses' union that more investment is needed in delivery mechanisms. Derivatives bleater noun On Friday night, the bleaters were at it again when he lined up on Nathan Ablett instead of Cameron Mooney. Example sentencesExamples It is the compulsion to resort to hyperbole that tells me how superficial the middle class bleaters' understanding of, and commitment to, reconciliation is. It wasn't just the doo-woppers (Platters, Marcels) and Italian-American bleaters (Freddy Cannon, Connie Francis) who padded or enriched their repertoire with pop oldies. The Cabinet opponents seem to amount to little more than a clutch of powerless bleaters. If we did invade, these bleaters would start moaning about imperialism. Origin Old English blǣtan, of imitative origin. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat Definition of bleat in US English: bleat verbblitblēt [no object] 1(of a sheep, goat, or calf) make a characteristic wavering cry. （羊）咩咩地叫；（小牛）哞哞地叫 the lamb was bleating weakly 小羊羔发出微弱的咩咩声。 figurative handing the mike to some woman who starts bleating out rap rhymes Example sentencesExamples The brain centres under observation would activate and the sheep would bleat in a particular way when they saw pictures of members of their own flock and in a similar way when they saw a shepherd they knew well. When I park near the dunes, I hear what sounds like a goat bleating beyond the vast surrounding sugarcane fields, which can't be right - there's no farm in sight. He nodded his head, and the ram bleated out a cry before storming off towards Diana. We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her. Goats bleated occasionally, chickens clucked and honks from geese could be heard sometimes. We camped overnight but with the dawn chorus and the sheep bleating, it was hard to sleep! The sheep bleated at such unkindness, and their resistance strengthened her resolve to continue. In fact, I bleated at it like an aging nanny goat. The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths. He slurred words, intentionally sang out of tune, bleated like a sheep, laughed at himself and made up nonsensical lines. The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling. The other fiend was trying to make its way to the pasture where the sheep were bleating. The goat bleats piteously - it knows this is not a good day. A grass-chomping, bleating, Lakeland sheep is set to become the star of a series of books written and illustrated by a local author. On tour, this dependency was even more intensified; we used to joke in the airports, pretending we were sheep, bleating as we waited for someone to tell us where to go. Their stress levels were monitored by looking at the number of times each sheep bleated, its movement within the barn and its heart-rate. Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously. They watched as the goat struggled to its feet and limped away, bleating in protest at this unexpected treatment. The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating. It was silent in the little old town on the hill; the only sounds to be heard came from the wind whispering through the treetops and the sheep bleating quietly in their pens. Synonyms baa, maa, cry, call 1.1reporting verb Speak or complain in a weak, querulous, or foolish way. 低声抱怨，噜里噜苏地发牢骚 he bleated incoherently about the report Example sentencesExamples They would be bleating and complaining that this Government was not involved in the Solomon Islands. So, day one, class one, we fire up the software and a dismayed voice instantly bleats from the back of the room, ‘But this isn't like the old system!’ And now they come to this chamber, bleating, awash with crocodile tears and pretending to be the custodians of free speech - pretending to be the custodians of this institution. Wilting with shame, he bleats, ‘I have no hand in all this… all this that has happened.’ She thinks I spend all these hours on the computer looking at pornography or some other harmless pursuit; if she knew I was bleating on about life, the universe and everything she would get worried. At the time he said, ‘Mr Gilchrist has gone into this dispute roaring like a lion and is coming out bleating like a lamb’. ‘This Irish son has moved with the times,’ he bleats meaningfully. Alexis de Tocqueville would marvel at what bleating sheep we have become. These people are sometimes seen dashing from the bus stop, with their Gucci yoga mats nestled under their arms, bleating, ‘Ohmygod if I'm late to class Swami will so kill me!’ And you are president of an organisation which bleats about caring for ladies' football, handball and even rounders! It's time you stopped listening to those insipid ‘advisors’, whoever they may be, as well as what the press are bleating on about, and reverted to your true fighting style. He should tell the unions to stop bleating about foreign workers - even if they dress their warnings with expressions of concern - and worry instead about how they can deliver greater productivity from their members. A Greens apparatchik phones the station and bleats to the producer. I didn't want to go back to their circles and listen to them bleat like herds of sheep. Internet piracy is ‘cyber-theft on a huge scale, and it's a very big obstacle to the music industry's own advances to develop legitimate ways for consumers to enjoy music on-line,’ the group bleats. ‘If it lasted a week, it would be okay,’ he bleats, ‘but it lasts a month!’ Type that address into your Web browser, though, and a message bleats, ‘Site Terminated for Failure to Pay Bills.’ He senses that Europe's concerns aren't getting a hearing in America because Europe bleats with a voice which is both confused and hypocritical. Prepare for 2018, he bleats - only 13 years from today! It doesn't come out of thin air - down the line, it might even come out of the pockets of all those little people he bleats on about. I think she must be insecure or something, as in her footage she bleats about having ‘too many faults’ when the cameras follow her into the change room. ‘The unions are always bleating about exploration companies hiring people from abroad, but what's the option when these professionals are just not available here?’ he said. If any proof were needed, then the fact that the Human Rights brigade are bleating and complaining about it must show it is a good thing. Why, I remember when my own won the pig competition in the county fair, it made my heart bleat with pride and joy. So long as this is done by a person who has already purchased a DVD, and strictly for their own use, it should fall under the fair use exception that the DCMA bleats about protecting. And to promote her movies, Jennifer Aniston, well, bleats on endlessly about her life. How many times have we heard the supermarkets bleating on about ‘it is customer demand’ when challenged about their imports of meat, poultry, milk and other produce that they could have bought local? ‘I suppose it doesn't matter,’ I heard her bleat behind me. ‘Everything about him was right,’ she bleats, apparently failing to notice that he had a fake plastic face. Synonyms complain, moan, mutter, grumble, grouse, groan, grouch, growl, carp, snivel, make a fuss nounblitblēt 1The wavering cry made by a sheep, goat, or calf. （羊的）咩咩声；（小牛的）哞声 the distant bleat of sheep in the field 远处的羊叫声。 Example sentencesExamples Other utilized techniques were scent stations using cougar urine, catnip, or other scents, and recorded sounds such as cougar screams, predator calls, and deer bleats. On TV screens across the globe, for more than three months now, the sheep have been jumping into the ditch without a bleat of protest. Only the gentle buzz of the mechanical shears kind, the chatter of 300 onlookers and the odd sheep's bleat could be heard as 33 of the Mid West's best shearers took part in Geraldton first speed shearing competition. Their typical call is a mingled bray and bleat, followed by a snorted inhale sounding like an oak dining table being dragged across a hardwood floor. There were other sounds in the distance: the muted shouting, the bleat of llamas, the distant bustle of the town. The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need. The lands beyond are filled with a chorus of bleats and croaks and barks. A llama's whining bleat sounded through the veils of sleep, jolting me to bleary awareness. We'd pass them on our daily walks and I swear their monotone bleats seemed to be saying, Blaaah, blaaah, blaaah. On delicate feet they tripped from the road, the young ones uttering their plaintive bleats. From one side came the cry of curlews, from the other the bleat of sheep. He ignored the sheep's little bleats of protest and only focused on which sheep his arrow hit. From the kitchen comes the less violent bleating of the baby lambs, and in the distance the occasional deeper bleat of a sheep or low of a cow. To lure them from the dense woody thickets scattered through the arid open savannas, he used the ultimate bait: the ‘plaintive bleat of a wounded baby buffalo.’ The cloning of human beings has seemed inevitable since Dolly took her first bleat, and we should be relieved that it was done by scientists in a laboratory, not by wild-eyed members of some cult. I amused myself by calling people from the sheep barn and leaving the bleats of shorn sheep on their machines. There was that permeating smell of animals and damp straw, the bleat of a llama came from a neighbouring stall. 1.1 A person's weak or plaintive cry. （人的）微弱（或悲哀）的叫声 his despairing bleat touched her heart 他绝望的哀鸣触动了她的心。 Example sentencesExamples There was a sudden sheep-like silence broken only by a bleat - we had been stumped, outwitted and outclassed by an obese, middle-aged rube. His voice is a harsh, nasal, confused, emphatic bleat, clamping down on certain words and rolling tricky internal rhymes around in his mouth until they come out all broken. Manifestation of my words came fourteen years after I'd spoken there but at the time it was only an honest bleat of frustration with a system that was reprehensible. First Joey, his voice a mutant-goat bleat, succumbed to lymphoma in 2001. Without warning, the machine bleats: ‘It's not my fault ’in a piteous voice. Still, when the bus stopped for any length of time, the bleats of goaty anguish would start up again, and my companion and I would glance at each other. Synonyms whine, cry, sniffle, snivel, sob, moan, bleat, mewl, wail, groan 1.2 A complaint. 〈非正式〉抱怨，牢骚 they're hoping that I'll bow to their idiotic arrangements without a bleat 他们希望我毫无怨言地迁就他们愚蠢的安排。 Example sentencesExamples Already I can hear the bleat of anxious readers: the word ‘independence’, and the concept it embodies, is problematic. The latest bleat seems to be: those Democrats, that Jesse Jackson, they have unclean hands and double standards. The great philanthropist, in other words, is financed by mere mortals who stupidly bear their taxes without so much as a plaintive bleat. Incidentally, I don't know why whingeing has to start with a bleat. Their MPs voted for the anti-democratic state of emergency without a bleat of protest. That means an end to bleats of: ‘Dad, the internet is down.’ The chiefs of the association are unlikely to pay much heed to a rural bleat, even if the problem is almost nation-wide. My objections are not the usual huge-corporate-malls-are-soulless rants, or the cars-destroy-the-environment bleats you usually get from the tree-huggers. The ubiquitous bleats about international law always seem to restrain one party whilst leaving the other unscolded. But this paper does carry a different tone to previous bleats by the bosses' union that more investment is needed in delivery mechanisms. And, he repeats the bleats about how pure and dedicated scientists would never get into ‘showbiz,’ nor would they ever try for a prize. I can't tell if these bleats about Rod Serling or the Palestinians are diluting your humor work, because I can't claim to know it well enough, but I certainly have my suspicions. Contrary to Dembski's bleats, the evidence that complex biological systems are the product of evolution is sufficient to convince just about every scientist who has ever considered the matter. Seguis ends his pathetic bleat with this statement to the terrorists. The only bleat was City's failure to turn such superiority into goals. Here is a bleat from a disgruntled Indian, pointing out the obvious from one side of the culture war. Again the answer drifted down, this time in a long-drawn-out bleat of protest: ‘Nooooo!’ I'm really grateful to all you folks who answered my bleat about financial support for Catholic apostolates yesterday! The eternal bleat from the Right is that they are being prevented from asking legitimate questions by an hysterical climate of political-correctness. We have heard the same bleats from our own Left ad nauseam. Origin Old English blǣtan, of imitative origin.
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