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wheezy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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wheez·y /ˈwiːzi/ adjective  MIBREATHEmaking a noisy sound in your throat or chest, because you cannot breathe easily 气喘的;发出喘息声的 You sound wheezy. 你听起来有些气喘。 a wheezy cough 呼哧呼哧的咳嗽wheezily adverbwheeziness noun [uncountable]
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wheezyIn the brief lulls, my ears strained to catch the sound of the pigeon's soft, wheezy breathing.Alho etal reported that both gestational age and birth weight were independently associated with wheezy bronchitis.Chit-chat makes do until the wheezy chime of five o'clock, whereupon you stand up.He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.Harrison charged that the ex-sailors were too old and wheezy to climb the steep hill up to the Observatory.
wheez·y adjectiveChineseSyllable
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wheezy
wheezy /ˈwiːzi/ adjective
making a noisy sound in your throat or chest, because you cannot breathe easily:
    You sound wheezy.
    a wheezy cough
—wheezily adverb
—wheeziness noun [uncountable]


wheezyBrE /ˈwiːzi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwiːzi/ 🔊 adjectivemaking the high whistling sound that your chest makes when you cannot breathe easily 喘息的;喘鸣的;气喘吁吁的;呼哧呼哧响的I'm wheezy today. 我今天感到喘不上气来。🔊🔊a wheezy cough喘鸣性咳 wheez·ily BrE /ˈwiːzɪli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwiːzɪli/ 🔊 adverb wheezi·ness BrE /ˈwiːzinəs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwiːzinəs/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]