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說(shuō)起“笑”，你最熟悉的也許是 smile 或 laugh。除此之外，英語(yǔ)中還有

不少詞匯可表示各種各樣的笑，你知道嗎？                                                        

beam   指人因心情舒暢而發(fā)出的笑，即面帶喜悅地笑 (smile happily and cheerfully)。 

1）She beamed back at me in an idiotic manner.

她回頭沖著我傻乎乎地笑笑。

2）The children 's faces beamed with happy smiles.

孩子們的臉上充溢著幸福的笑容。

3）He greeted me with a beam of joy.

他笑容滿面地迎接我。

4）Yusef chuckled with a beam of pride on his face.

尤塞夫呵呵笑起來(lái)，臉上露出得意的笑容。

grin   指咧嘴露齒而笑，可用作動(dòng)詞或名詞。 

1）He grinned when he was delighted at the memory of the matter.

想到往事，他開(kāi)心地咧嘴笑了起來(lái)。

2）A large cat was lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

一只大貓正趴在爐邊，它正咧著嘴笑。

3）I know she is joking because she has a big grin on her face.

她咧著嘴在笑，我知道她是在開(kāi)玩笑。

4）They looked at each other in a grin of understanding.

他們會(huì)心地笑著，互相瞅了一眼。

chuckle   指偷笑、暗自低聲輕笑，咯咯地笑 ( to laugh softly or amusedly, 

usually with satisfaction)，可用作動(dòng)詞或名詞。

1）  He chuckled to himself over the success of the scheme .

想到那條妙計(jì)很靈驗(yàn)，他得意地偷笑起來(lái)。

2）She was happy to talk about it. She held me tight and continued to chuckle. 

她興高采烈地談?wù)撨@件事，緊緊地?fù)е?，咯咯地笑個(gè)不停。

3）I couldn't suppress a soft chuckle at the thought of it.

想到這個(gè)，忍不住輕輕地笑起來(lái)。

4）He gave a mild chuckle and looked at me with his kind and candid blue eyes。

他輕輕地咯咯一笑，用那雙和善又坦率的藍(lán)眼睛望著我。

giggle  “傻笑”、“咯咯地笑”  指情不自禁發(fā)出咯咯的笑聲（laugh repeatedly

in silly but uncontrolled way when one is amused, embarraseed or nervous），

較多地用于女人或孩子，可用作動(dòng)詞或名詞。

1）Scarlett wanted to giggle at her discomfiture, for Rhett had caught her fairly.

思嘉看見(jiàn)她這副狼狽相忍不住要笑出聲來(lái), 因?yàn)槿鸬伦プ∷囊α恕?/p>

2） The absurd story made all the children started to giggle.

那個(gè)荒謬的故事使所有的孩子們都吃吃地笑開(kāi)了。

3）Stop giggling , children; this is a serious matter.

孩子們，別傻笑了，這是嚴(yán)肅的事情。

4）There was a giggle from the back of the class.

從教室后面?zhèn)鱽?lái)咯咯的笑聲。

5）She gave a delighted giggle. 

她高興地發(fā)出吃吃笑聲。

chortle  指哈哈大笑、得意地歡笑（laugh when one feels amused or pleased 

about something),可用作動(dòng)詞或名詞。

1）My parents chortled with mirth, when they heard the funny story。

當(dāng)我的父母聽(tīng)到這件趣事，他們開(kāi)心得咯咯笑起來(lái)了。

2）Now and then there came chortles of the children from the next room.

隔壁房間里不時(shí)傳來(lái)孩子們的歡笑聲。

cachinnate   指放聲大笑、哄笑（laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way） 

1）He cachinnated till his sides ached .

他笑得肚皮都痛。

2）Every time you take a full breath, or when you cachinnate well, the diaphragm descends 

and gives the stomach an extra squeeze and shakes it.

每一次深呼吸或大笑，橫膈膜會(huì)下降，使胃部受到額外的擠壓和振動(dòng)。

guffaw  “狂笑”、“哄笑”， 指哈哈大笑、開(kāi)心地放聲大笑，可用作動(dòng)詞或名詞。

1）Paul beat his rival at last , and he guffawed boisterously

保羅最終戰(zhàn)勝他的對(duì)手，發(fā)出一陣狂笑。

2）He guffawed with delight when he heard the news.

聽(tīng)到這個(gè)消息，他高興得狂笑不已。

3）What he said aroused a blast of guffaw.

他的話引起大家一陣哄笑。

4）The crowd laugh an guffaw as soon as they see the ridiculous manner of the buffoon.

見(jiàn)小丑那種滑稽樣子, 觀眾不禁哈哈大笑大起來(lái)。

titter  “竊笑”， 指窘迫時(shí)的短促的竊笑（laugh nervously, often at something 

that you feel you should not be laughing at),可用作動(dòng)詞或名詞。

1）He heard some girls tittering behind his back. 

他聽(tīng)到背后有一些女孩子在竊笑。

2）Mention sex therapy and most people will titter in embarrassment.

提及性治療，大多數(shù)人會(huì)尷尬地偷笑。

3）The titter that rippled around the room appeared to abash the boy,

教室里到處都是竊竊輕笑聲，似乎是這讓男孩臉紅。

4）The love scene raised a few titters from a party of schoolboys.

這個(gè)愛(ài)情情景引起一群男生的竊笑。

simper  指癡笑，傻笑或做作地笑（smile affectedly or derisively）可用作動(dòng)詞或名

詞。

1）What are you simpering about now？

你在傻笑什么？

2）When I told him that news, he simply simpered.

當(dāng)我把那消息告訴他時(shí)，他只假笑了一下。

3）The model looked at her reflection in the mirror with an idiotic simper.

模特兒帶著傻乎乎的微笑望著鏡子里自己。

4）He had small, watery eyes, a pointed nose, and wore an unpleasant simper.

他長(zhǎng)了一雙水汪汪的小眼睛，一個(gè)尖頭鼻子，臉上掛著令人討厭的假笑。

smirk  “假笑”、“得意的笑”； 指洋洋得意、自鳴得意地笑，或指輕蔑地笑 ( laugh in an 

affected, smug, or offensively familiar way or laugh with pleasure at someone else's

unhappiness or misfortu呢）， 可用作動(dòng)詞或名詞。

1）She stood there, smirking at me without a word.

她站在那里，一言不語(yǔ)，沖著我傻笑。

2）I don't like the way he winks and smirks at me whenever he sees me.

我不喜歡他每次看到我總是眨眨眼，捂著嘴偷笑我的樣子。

3）A smirk flickered at the corner of his mouth as he watched my struggle.

他看我掙扎的樣子，嘴角閃過(guò)一絲幸災(zāi)樂(lè)禍的笑容。

4）"I told you it would end in disaster," said Polly with a self-satisfied smirk on her face.

“我告訴你它會(huì)以悲劇收?qǐng)?”波利自鳴得意地笑著說(shuō)。

snicker  “壞笑”、“竊笑”、“暗笑”，常含有不敬之意（laugh quietly in 

a disrespectful way),多用作動(dòng)詞。

1） On hearing his absurd opinion, I went snickering.

聽(tīng)了他荒謬的意見(jiàn)，我忍不住暗笑著走開(kāi)了。

2）She stood there, snickering at what he was saying.

她站在那里，對(duì)他說(shuō)的偷偷發(fā)笑。

3）The class snickered but she said, "try," encouragingly .

全班同學(xué)聽(tīng)了都竊竊發(fā)笑，然而她卻鼓勵(lì)說(shuō)：“試試吧！”

snigger  “暗笑”，“竊笑”，常不帶善意（to laugh at someone or something 

in a silly and often unkind way), 多用作動(dòng)詞。

1） He sniggered, and then pulled himself and tried to look particularlysolemn. 

他偷偷地噗嗤笑了出來(lái)，接著又?jǐn)咳菡?，做出特別莊重嚴(yán)肅的樣子。

2）How can I forget, with people sniggering behind my back?

我怎么會(huì)忘記呢？人們一直在我背后偷偷地笑話我。

sneer  指某人傲慢、盛氣凌人而冷言冷語(yǔ)地嘲笑、譏笑他人（smile or speak in

a very unkind way that shows you have no respect for someone or 

something),著重強(qiáng)調(diào)其說(shuō)話的調(diào)腔、措辭和表情，常帶有一定的惡意或蔑視。可

用作動(dòng)詞或名詞。

1）She'll probably sneer at my new shoes because they're not expensive.

她很可能會(huì)嘲笑我的新鞋，因?yàn)樗鼈儾皇呛苜F。

2）He's always sneering at my suggestions.  

他總是對(duì)我提出的建議嗤之以鼻。

3）It is discouraging to be sneered at all the time.

老是被人譏笑是很令人泄氣。

4）There were always those who dismissed him with a sneer, saying he wasn't British by birth.

總有人對(duì)他不屑一顧，說(shuō)他不是土生土長(zhǎng)的英國(guó)人。

5）He paid no attention to their sneers.

他對(duì)他們的嘲笑置之不理。

deride  “嘲笑”、“譏笑”，指用輕蔑的語(yǔ)言譏諷某人的缺點(diǎn)（laugh at someone 

or something in a way that shows you think they are stupid or of no 

value).

1）They derided his efforts as childish.

他們把他的努力嘲為幼稚之舉。

2）This building, once derided by critics, is now a major tourist attraction.

這個(gè)建筑物，曾受批評(píng)者譏諷，現(xiàn)在成了一個(gè)主要的旅游景點(diǎn)。

3）You should not deride children for their failures; you should encourage them to try again.

你不該嘲笑孩子的失敗，應(yīng)該鼓勵(lì)他們?cè)僮鲊L試。 

scoff   “嘲笑”、“譏笑”，指不尊重、不相信，以致用輕蔑的語(yǔ)言無(wú)理嘲笑。 

1）Young people should not scoff at the advice given by the elders.

年輕人不應(yīng)嘲笑長(zhǎng)輩提出的勸告。

2）Although some may scoff at the idea, it has been a remarkably compelling vision.

雖然有些人對(duì)之不屑一顧, 然而這一理念確實(shí)廣受歡迎.。

3）Economic analysts scoff at the claims that inflation is on the rise.

經(jīng)濟(jì)分析家們對(duì)通脹上升各種說(shuō)法嗤之以鼻。

jeer  指奚落、冷嘲熱諷的嘲笑?？捎米鲃?dòng)詞或名詞。

1）The big boys jeer at Tom Because he is so small.

大個(gè)男孩子們嘲笑湯姆，因?yàn)樗麄€(gè)子很矮小。

2）Don’t jeer at the mistakes or misfortures of others.

不要嘲笑別人的錯(cuò)誤或不幸。

3）I didn't come here today to jeer: I want to give advice.

我今天到這兒來(lái)不是為了諷刺挖苦，我是想提些建議。

4）He was stabbed to the heart by the girl's jeer.

那女孩的嘲諷深深地刺傷了他的心。