cackles是什么意思？

cackles

• n. （母鸡的）咯咯声( cackle的名词复数 )，咯咯的笑声，刺耳的谈笑声，停止闲谈开始做事；
• v. 发出咯咯声( cackle的第三人称单数 )，饶舌，叽叽呱呱地讲，格格笑着表示；

例句

• It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another's. 这样的母鸡可不好:在你家里咯咯叫,却到别家去下蛋.
• There were a few cackles from the audience when I began to talk. 我开始讲话时听众中发出一些格格笑声.
• The hen cackles when she has laid an egg. 母鸡下了蛋就咯咯地叫.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  (常指幸灾乐祸地)咯咯笑
  If someone cackles, they laugh in a loud unpleasant way, often at something bad that happens to someone else.
  例句
  The old lady cackled, pleased to have produced so dramatic a reaction... 看到引起如此大的反应,老太太高兴得咯咯笑了起来。 Newington threw his head back and cackled with laughter. 纽因顿仰头大笑。