hiccup

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hic·cup1, hiccough /ˈhɪkʌp, -kəp/ noun [countable]  1  [usually plural]HBHBREATHE a sudden repeated stopping of the breath, usually caused by eating or drinking too fast 呃逆，打嗝get/have hiccups British English, get/have the hiccups American English Don’t drink so fast – you’ll get hiccups. 别喝这么快——会打嗝的。2  PROBLEMa small problem or delay 小问题；短暂的耽搁hiccup in a hiccup in the negotiations 谈判中出现的小问题

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hiccup• But he also assumes that the economy will keep chugging along with barely a hiccup of a recession.• Our job today is just a hiccup in time.• A hiccup, possibly, but no decent restaurant should produce one of that size.• Nausea, vomiting and hiccup with aversion to warm food and desire for cold food.• The sales drive was interrupted by a legal hiccup.• The airline industry's troubles are a mere hiccup in an otherwise upward growth trend.• There were a few minor hiccups in the space shuttle launch.• That was the only hiccup in Llanelli's 10-try victory, although they were not the highest scorers of the day.• There was a slight hiccup when I couldn't find my car keys, but finally we set off.• The event started with a slight hiccup when it was discovered that the batteries were in the wrong way round.• My training is going very well apart from the slight hiccup with the railway line.get/have the hiccups• I got the hiccups, excuse me.

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hiccup2 verb (hiccupped, hiccupping) [intransitive]  HBHBREATHEto have hiccups 打嗝→ See Verb table

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hiccup• Two days before admission he noted abdominal distension and began to hiccup.• Under the black vinyl the waters burbled and hiccuped.• Would-be lovers belch or hiccup at decisive moments.• Suffolk people hiccup half their words away.• Rufus went on laughing, hiccuping with laughter.Origin hiccup1 (1500-1600) From the sound

hic·cup1 nounhiccup2 verbChineseSyllable  

a stopping the repeated Corpus of sudden breath, usually

hiccup

I

hic‧cup¹ , hiccough /ˈhɪkʌp, -kəp/ noun [countable]1. [usually plural] a sudden repeated stopping of the breath, usually caused by eating or drinking too fast
    get/have hiccups British English get/have the hiccups American English:
    Don’t drink so fast – you’ll get hiccups.
2. a small problem or delay
    hiccup in
    a hiccup in the negotiations

II

hiccup² verb (past tense and past participle hiccupped, present participle hiccupping) [intransitive]
to have hiccups