(亦作tweet tweet)
1
- the chirp of a small or young bird（小鸟的）啁啾声, 啾啾声。
2
- a posting made on the social networking service Twitter在推特网上发的帖子, 微博：
he started posting tweets via his mobile phone to let his parents know he was safe.
他用手机发微博, 告诉父母自己是安全的。
no obj.
1
- make a chirping noise啾啾地叫：
the birds were tweeting in the branches.
鸟儿们在枝头啁啾。
2
- make a posting on the social networking service Twitter在推特网上发微博：
it's easy to tweet all the time.
什么时候发微博都很方便。
WORD TRENDS
Once invoking nothing beyond the sound of birds gently chirping， tweet is a striking example of the Internet's influence on language trends. Since the social networking service Twitter was set up in 2006， 'tweeting' （posting short messages， known as tweets, on the Web） has become so popular that the frequency of the noun tweet in the Oxford English Corpus has risen tenfold. The millions of people using Twitter may take themselves and their tweets very seriously， but the site's name suggests otherwise: the Corpus shows that the majority of uses of twitter in the sense 'talk rapidly and at length' imply foolishness or triviality: two posh English girls twitter incessantly ｜ twittering on about the good old days.
词源
mid 19th cent.: imitative.