(亦作tut)
- expressing disapproval or annoyance表示不同意、不耐烦啧啧:
tut-tut, Robin, you disappoint me.
啧啧, 罗宾, 你令我失望。
- such an exclamation啧啧声:
tut-tuts of disapproval.
反对的啧啧声。
tut-tutted, tut-tutting
no obj. make such an exclamation以啧啧声表示:Aunt Mary tut-tutted at all the goings-on.
玛丽姨妈对发生的一切都啧啧反对。
词源
natural utterance (representing a reduplicated clicking sound made by the tongue against the teeth): first recorded in English in the early 16th cent.