Cough

(noun.) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis.

(verb.) exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion; 'The smoker coughs all day'.

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• Mr. Snagsby, having said this in a very plaintive manner, throws in a cough of general application to fill up all the blanks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I immediately inquired of her why she left her home with such a dreadful cough. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It must be English for some one, sir, I think, Mr. Snagsby submits with his deferential cough. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• As soon as he had withdrawn the cloth and placed the dessert upon the table, he began to cough and place himself in an attitude of preparation. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It is only a nervous cough. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She was stopped by a cough. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The poor creature interrupted me with loud sobs, which produced such a dreadful fit of coughing, I thought that she would have expired on the spot. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She was coughing most dreadfully, and her breath was still more oppressed than my own. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• However, as soon as he could be heard through Mr. Smallweed's coughing and his vicious ejaculations of Oh, my bones! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He seemed about to dispute this designation of himself when he was seized with a violent fit of coughing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The broker was taken with such a fit of coughing he burst a blood-vessel, and the man who let the bromine out got away and never came back. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The waiter coughed, as if he modestly invited me to get over that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Dodson coughed and looked at Fogg, who said 'Perfectly,' also. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There was no sound within: so she coughed and listened again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He coughed and spat and listened to the heavy machine gun hammer again below the bend. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Perker coughed violently, and asked Mr. Pickwick whether he wouldn't like to look at the morning paper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• His voice deserted him; he coughed and spluttered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mr. Snagsby turns up the gas and coughs behind his hand, modestly anticipating profit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After rendering this general tribute to the port, Mr. Snagsby in his modesty coughs an apology behind his hand for drinking anything so precious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You can be alarmed enough, if Eva coughs, or has the least thing the matter with her; but you never think of me. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Kitty has no discretion in her coughs, said her father; she times them ill. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Mr. Snagsby says nothing to this effect, says nothing at all indeed, but coughs his forlornest cough, expressive of no thoroughfare in any direction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr. Snagsby appears to have set out in this reply with some desperate design of repeating the name, but on reflection coughs again to excuse himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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