常见的英语象声词
1)有关动物的象声词
apes: (猿)gibber叽哩咕噜 asses: (驴)bray, heehaw babies: cry
bear: growl
bees: buzz, hum, murmur, drone beetles(甲虫): drone
birds: chatter, chirp, chirrup, flap, peck, sing, squawk, twitter,
bulls: bellow, bow
camels: grunt
cats: miaow, mew, purr cattle: low
chicken: cheep, peep, pip chicks: cheep
child: chatter
cock: crow, cock-a-doodle-do cows: boo, low, moo, moo, crickets(蟋蟀): chirp
crows: caw, croak
deer: beat
dogs: bark, bay, bow-wow, grow, how, whine, yap, yelp
donkeys: bray, hee-haw
doves: coo, crood, croud, croodle ducks: quack, screech
eagle: scream
elephants: trumpet
flies: buzz, hum, drone
foxes: yelp, bark
frogs: croak
geese: cackle, gabble, gaggle, hiss goats: bleat, baa
hawks: scream,
hens: cackle, chuckle
horse: whiney, nicker, neigh, snort, hounds: bay
insects: chirp
kittens(小猫): mew
larks(百灵): sing, warble
lions: roar
magpies,喜鹊,: chatter
man: giggle, hem(哼),ouch, hush, mumble, chatter, bravo, murmur, whisper
mice: peep, squeak
monkeys: chatter, japer, screech, chatter
mosquitoes: buzz, hum, drom night eagles: ner
owls: hoot, scream, screech, whop owls: hoot, screech, scream ox: bo, how, moo
parrots: talk, quack
pigeons: coo, crood, croodle pigs crowd
puppies: yelp
rabbits: suqeak
seagulls(海鸥): screamsheep: bleat, baa
snakes: hiss
sparrows: chatter, chirp, twitter swallows: twitter
swans: cry
tigers: roar, groul, gaoll
turkeys: gobble
vultures(秃鹫): scream
whales: blow
wide goose(大雁): honk wolves: howl growl
2)有关物体的象声词
abacus(算盘) balls: pit-a-pat, pita pat arrows: whistle, whiz
artillery(大炮): booms
balls: bounce
bank notes: rustle
bayonets: clink and clash beats: pit-a-pat, pita pat, thump, thud, patter
bellows(风箱): flip-flap
bells: clink, clang, jingle, jingle-jangles-jingle, ding dong.
bikes: jangle
boots(皮靴): crunch
bottles: crack, crick-crack, rattle bow string: snap
bowels: rumble
brakes: screech
branches: snap
breeze: puffs
bullets: whistle, whiz, zip buses: rattle, hoot, and thump cameras: snick
candles: splutter
cars: crash, toot(horn)
carts: rumble, creak
cattle: low
chains: clank
clocks: ding dang, tick, ticktack, tic tak
clothes: rustle
coins: jingle
cooking pots: sizzle
cords: pop
curtains: flap
dishes: ding dang, jingle, clatter doors: creak, rat-tat-tat, rat tattoo, rattle,
drums: rub-a-dub, rataplan dry leaves: rustle
eating: slurp
engines: chug, chum, whistle feet: chatter, tramp
fingers snap
fire crackers: bang, pup fire snap
flags: flap flutter
floor: creak
glass: crash, clinks,
gongs: ding-dang
guns pup, boom, click hands: clap, flick
high heal shoes: click horns: toot
horse's hooves: dip-clop jade: tickle
keys: clink
knife and fork: clack leather shoes: click-clack leaves: whisper, rustle, locks: snap, click,
locomotive(火车头): puff machines: buzz,
machines guns: rattle, chatter, tat-rat, tat-tat-tat
metal: ting, clash, clink, tinkle, jing dong, ticktack
mind: buzz
oil: sizzle
paper: rustle
planes: zoom, crash, radios: squeak
rain: patters, pit-pat-pit-pat
rifle: crack, pop
ropes: crack, snap, pop scissors: clip-clop
silk: rustle
snow: spatters
steam: hoop, hoos, hoot stick: swish
stomach: rumble
stones: smack, flop
tears: plop
teeth: chatter
telephone: ring, jangle
thunder: clap, peal, rumble, tongue: click
trains: rattle, clatter, whistle, murmur
trumps(号): toot
trucks: rumble, grunt
type writers: tap, clatter watches: tick, ticktack
water: babbles, bubbles, drip-draps, splashes, sizzles, spish-splash, hiss,
wheels: rumble, crunch, whir whips(鞭子): flick, smack, snap, swish
whistles: whack
wind: haot, toot, howl, rattle, sough
windows: rattle