trill
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++trill1 /trɪl/ verb [intransitive, transitive] 1 SINGSOUNDto make a short repeated high sound 发出短促重复的高音；发出（颤音） birds trilling in the trees 在树林里啼啭的鸟儿 The phone trilled sharply. 电话铃丁零零地响着。2 HIGH SOUND OR VOICEto say something in a high happy voice that sounds slightly false 欢快地说（话） ‘Have a nice time, darling, ’ she trilled. “玩得开心点，亲爱的。”她欢声说道。→ See Verb table
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trill• At five o'clock the phone set on the tailgate of the Range Rover trilled.• In the brush warblers and finches are trilling again; raspberries glisten; the gulls are laughing.• Two hours later I was woken by men whistling, clicking, trilling and hooting their music to the flocks.• The phone on Sam McCready's desk trilled at midday.• The bird had stopped tick-ticking and was trilling away cheerfully.• Johnson was reading a local newspaper he had bought at the Frankenwald service station when his phone trilled discreetly.• A mockingbird trilled from atop a telephone pole.• The telephones in Sly's office complex did not trill, they rang.trill2 noun [countable] 1. technicalAPM a musical sound made by quickly moving between two notes 〔音乐的〕颤音2 HBBSOUNDa short repeated high sound 短促重复的响声；〔鸟的〕啼啭，唧唧啾啾 the trill of blackbirds 乌鸫的啼啭声Examples from the Corpus
trill• A trill of song from somewhere outside the trench.• From behind the curtain the tuning-up sounds, trumpet runs, and flute trills, were becoming more clamorous.• From within, I catch the trill of a Pogues song.Origin trill2 (1600-1700) Italian trillo, from trillare “to trill”, probably from Dutch trillen “to shake very quickly”trill1 verbtrill2 nounChinese
Corpus make to repeated high a short sound
trill
trill1 /trɪl/ 
verb [intransitive and transitive]
1. to make a short repeated high sound:
birds trilling in the trees
The phone trilled sharply.
2. to say something in a high happy voice that sounds slightly false:
‘Have a nice time, darling,’ she trilled.
trill2 noun [countable]
2. a short repeated high sound:
the trill of blackbirds
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verb [intransitive and transitive]1. to make a short repeated high sound:
2. to say something in a high happy voice that sounds slightly false:
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noun [countable] Date: 1600-1700
Language: Italian
Origin: trillo, from trillare __to trill__, probably from Dutch trillen __to shake very quickly__
1. technical a musical sound made by quickly moving between two notesLanguage: Italian
Origin: trillo, from trillare __to trill__, probably from Dutch trillen __to shake very quickly__
2. a short repeated high sound: