rattle

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rat·tle1 /ˈrætl/ verb

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]SHAKE if you rattle something, or if it rattles, it shakes and makes a quick series of short sounds （使）咯吱作響

Dan banged on her door and rattled the handle.

丹砰砰地敲她的門，還把門把手拽得咯吱作響。

The window rattled in the wind.

窗戶被風吹得咯吱作響。

Bottles rattled as he stacked the beer crates.

他把啤酒箱摞起來，酒瓶咣當咣當地響。

2 [intransitiveI]MOVE/CHANGE POSITION if a vehicle rattles somewhere, it travels there while making a rattling sound 〔車輛行進時〕嘎啦嘎啦地響

rattle along/past/over etc

The cart rattled along the stony road.

馬車沿着碎石路嘎啦嘎啦往前走。

An old blue van rattled into view.

一輛藍色舊貨車咔嗒咔嗒地駛入我們的視線。

3 [transitiveT] informalFRIGHTENED to make someone lose confidence or become nervous 使慌亂，使緊張

His mocking smile rattled her more than his anger.

他那種嘲諷的微笑比他的憤怒更讓她慌亂。

It was hard not to get rattled when the work piled up.

工作積了一大堆，哪能不着急呢。

His confidence was rattled by the accident.

這場事故動搖了他的自信。

4 rattle somebody’s cage spoken informalANGRYANNOY to annoy someone – used humorously 惹惱某人〔幽默用法〕

Who rattled your cage?

是誰惹你了？

Examples from the Corpus

rattle somebody’s cage• Who rattled your cage?

PHRASAL VERBS

Examples from the Corpus

rattle• I woke up to the sound of cups and plates rattling, and knew that Dad was already up.• Sometimes, the bolts work loose and start rattling around.• Steve Merritt in an apparent bid to rattle Clinton.• The man from corporates rattled everyone.• Nothing rattles him.• Keys rattled in his pocket as he walked.• I did find the window open, and locked it myself because of the way it was rattling in the wind.• The windows were rattling in the wind.• The church door was rattling insanely and nothing could be seen through the windows, so fierce was the rain.• There's something rattling inside the washing machine.• Gear changes at 4 a. m. nearly rattled my window.• A battered old Chevrolet rattled past.• Then come the usual suspects, categories that we can rattle through quickly before announcing the big ones.• Once they had done this, they used breathing and rhythmic rattling to induce trance states.• Monday's earthquake rattled windows and woke residents.

rattle along/past/over etc• Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along.• The train rattled along and we both hung on to the straps looking at each other.• The car rattled along, crossing the myriad narrow gauge loco tracks that ran between the factories lining the route.• The train's wheels were churning, the engine rattling over points and spouting clouds of steam.• Tony went as fast as he could, and I was concentrating on staying on board as we rattled over the bumpy paths.• Now she was rattling along the empty streets, the horse's hooves sounding sharp and crisp in the silence.• They rattled along the main street of what looked like a typical East Anglian village.• Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate.

get rattled• If you hit him a couple times, he gets rattled.• He's a good player because he doesn't get rattled easily.• A dispatcher for a small fleet of trucks, he found it hard not to get rattled when the calls piled up.

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