groan

1. V-I If you groan, you make a long, low sound because you are in pain, or because you are upset or unhappy about something. 呻吟

Slowly, he opened his eyes. As he did so, he began to groan with pain. 他慢慢地睜開眼睛，竝開始痛苦地呻吟。

They glanced at the man on the floor, who began to groan. 他們掃了一眼地板上那個開始呻吟的男子。

2. N-COUNT Groan is also a noun. 呻吟

She heard him let out a pitiful, muffled groan. 她聽到他發出一聲可憐、壓抑的呻吟。

3. V-T If you groan something, you say it in a low, unhappy voice. 呻吟著說

"My leg – I think it's broken," Eric groaned. “我的腿–我想是斷了，”埃裡尅呻吟著說。

4. V-I If you groan about something, you complain about it. 抱怨

His parents were beginning to groan about the price of college tuition. 他的父母開始抱怨大學的學費。

5. N-COUNT Groan is also a noun. 抱怨

Listen sympathetically to your child's moans and groans about what she can't do. 要充滿同情地去傾聽孩子對她不能做的事而發的牢騷和抱怨。

6. V-I If wood or something made of wood groans, it makes a loud sound when it moves. (木頭移動時) 發吱嘎聲

The timbers groan and creak and the floorboards shift. 木料吱嘎作響，地板也跟著動。

7. V-I If you say that something such as a table groans under the weight of food, you are emphasizing that there is a lot of food on it. 堆滿[強調]

The bar counter groans under the weight of huge plates of the freshest fish. 酒吧櫃台上堆滿了大磐大磐最新鮮的魚。

8. V-I If you say that someone or something is groaning under the weight of something, you think there is too much of that thing. 受重壓[usu cont] [表不滿]

Consumers were groaning under the weight of high interest rates. 消費者受著高利率的重壓。