gaggle

英 [ˈɡæɡl]

美 [ˈɡæɡl]

n.  一群(吵闹的人); 一群(鹅); (鹅)群

复数：gaggles　现在分词：gaggling　过去式：gaggled　第三人称单数：gaggles　过去分词：gaggled　

GRE

BNC.24272 / COCA.19525

牛津词典

noun

• 一群（吵闹的人）
  a group of noisy people
  1. a gaggle of tourists/schoolchildren
     一群喧闹的游客 / 唧唧喳喳的小学生
• 一群（鹅）；（鹅）群
  a group of geese

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT-COLL （尤指吵闹或无秩序的）一群人
  You can usegaggleto refer to a group of people, especially if they are noisy or disorganized.
  1. A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.
     一群乱哄哄的记者坐在酒店大堂里焦急地等待着。

英英释义

noun

• a flock of geese

verb

• make a noise characteristic of a goose
  1. Cackling geese

双语例句

• Almost as soon as crop circles became public knowledge, they attracted a gaggle of self-appointed experts.
  麦田圈刚一被大众知晓立刻就吸引了一大群喧闹的自封专家。
• Earlier this month a gaggle of Chinese academics arrived in Zimbabwe for a symposium in which the model was lionised.
  本月初，一群中国学者抵达津巴布韦参加一个把这种模式奉为圭臬的研讨论。
• The farmer rears a gaggle of geese on his farm.
  那位农夫在他的农场里饲养了一群鹅。
• The video ad zooms in on a gaggle of green crabs scurrying around under the water, and then a corporate jet taking off with Shanghai in the background.
  这支电视广告的镜头先从水下聚焦四散奔逃的绿螃蟹，紧接着是一架商务飞机扶摇直上，离背景中的上海渐行渐远。
• Venture capitalists on sandhill road swooned for their attention like a gaggle of girls at a one direction concert.
  风险投资人争相对他们进行投资，就像一群痴狂的女歌迷们在英国男子组合OneDirection的演唱会上，完全神魂颠倒。
• A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.
  一群乱哄哄的记者坐在酒店大堂里焦急地等待着。
• One afternoon when I was ten. I found myself the leader of an after-school gaggle of boys.
  我十岁时的一天下午，发觉得自己成为一群孩子们的头。
• Either way, Posh's daughter inherits a gaggle of hunky older brothers and one heck of a wardrobe.
  不管怎样，维多利亚的小女儿不仅生来就有三位帅哥庇护，还继承了一大衣橱的衣服。
• The masses might think that getting to the top of a major finance company while raising a full gaggle of kids is impossible.
  人们可能觉得，一边养育一堆子女，一边晋升到一家主要金融公司的最高管理层，这简直是不可能的事。
• I can't stop. there's a gaggle of perverts.
  我现在有事，那有一帮变态。