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snivel

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古英語 *snyflan，还有记载作snyflung (“鼻涕，粘液”)[1]，源自snofl，最终源自snout的词根。

与sniff、snuff有关。[2].

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snivel (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 snivels，現在分詞 (UK) snivelling 或 (US) sniveling，一般過去時及過去分詞 (UK) snivelled 或 (US) sniveled)

  1. (不及物) 吸鼻涕
    近義詞：sniffle
    • 1611, Josuah Sylvester (translator), Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes, London, Book 4, Week 2, Day 4, p. 623,[1]
      […] a Hagg, a Fury by my side;
      With hollow, yellow teeth (or none perhaps)
      With stinking breath, swart-cheeks, and hanging chaps;
      With wrinkled neck; and stooping as she goes,
      With driveling mouth, and with a sniveling nose.
    • 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 16, Subsection 2, p. 149,[2]
      […] in severe frosty weather, snivelling and tears are produced by the coldness and dryness of the air.
    • 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, 章號 9, 出自 The Hobbit, New York: Random House, 出版於 1982，第 187 頁:
      […] he began to snivel, and wherever he tried to hide he was found out by the terrific explosions of his suppressed sneezes.
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  2. (貶義，不及物) 啜泣，呜咽；哭哭啼啼，哭诉
    近義詞：參見Thesaurus:complain
    • 1660, Roger L’Estrange, “No Fool to the Old Fool”, 出自 A Short View of Some Remarkable Transactions‎[3], London: Henry Brome，第 95 頁:
      Let things come to the Worst; when we have Overturned the Government;—Polluted the very Altar, with our MASTERS BLOOD—Cheated the Publick, &c. ’Tis but to Whine and Snivel to the People; tell them we were mis-led, by Cardinall Appetites;
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    • 1748, Tobias Smollett, 章號 61, 出自 The Adventures of Roderick Random‎[4], 第 2 卷, London: J. Osborn，第 267 頁:
      […] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed me into matrimony […]
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    • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, 章號 15, 出自 Little Women‎[5]:
      I never snivel over trifles like that.
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    • 1957, Graham Greene, The Potting Shed‎[6], New York: Viking, act 1, scene 1，第 17 頁:
      ANNE: Aunt Sara’s in the garden, snivelling in a deck chair.
      BASTON: What a hard child you are.
      ANNE: It’s no good being mushy, is it? It’s the truth that matters. and she is snivelling.
      BASTON: You could have said “crying.”
      ANNE: But crying’s quite a different thing.
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  3. (貶義，及物) 哭哭啼啼地说，哭诉说

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snivel (複數 snivels)

  1. 吸鼻涕；呜咽；哭哭啼啼
  2. 鼻涕
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    • 1653, Thomas Urquhart（譯者）, The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais‎[10], London: Richard Baddeley, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 53:
      He did let his snot and snivel fall in his pottage […]
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    • 1770, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 3rd edition, Volume 2, Book 8, p. 44,[11]
      In streams the blood and snivel flows
      From many a Grecian’s snotty nose,
    • 1860, Ellis Wynne, 譯者 George Borrow, The Sleeping Bard; or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell‎[12], London: John Murray，第 86 頁:
      On quitting this den of furious heat, I got a sight of a lair, exceeding all the rest I had seen in Hell, but one, in frightful stinking filthiness, where was a herd of accursed drunken swine, disgorging and swallowing, swallowing and disgorging, continually and without rest, the most loathsome snivel.
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    • 1952, Flannery O’Connor, 章號 3, 出自 Wise Blood‎[13], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 出版於 1962，第 59 頁:
      […] he ran his sleeve under his nose to stop the snivel.
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  1. ↑ “snivel” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
  2. ↑ “snivel” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.

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