n. 咳嗽，咳嗽声；咳嗽病
vt. 咳出
vi. 咳嗽
n. (Cough)人名；(英)考夫
英 [kɒf] 美 [kɔf]
权威例句
- Will this be enough to persuade Congress to cough up?
这能说服国会掏钱吗？
来自柯林斯例句 - I'll have to cough up $10,000 a year for tuition.
我每年将不得不付1万美元的学费。
来自柯林斯例句 - His cough grew more persistent until it never stopped.
他咳嗽持续的时间越来越长，直到咳个不停。
来自柯林斯例句 - Try gargling with salt water as soon as a cough begins.
一开始咳嗽就马上试着用盐水漱口。
来自柯林斯例句 - He suffered from a snotty nose, runny eyes and a slight cough.
他又是流鼻涕，又是流眼泪，还有点咳嗽。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
cough 咳嗽
拟声词，模仿咳嗽的声音。
英文词源
cough
**cough: **[14] Although it is largely disguised by the modern English pronunciation, _cough _is of onomatopoeic origin. It came from a prehistoric Germanic base *kokh- (the _kh _pronounced not unlike the _ch _of loch), which initiated the sound of coughing. This has no recorded Old English descendant (although one probably existed, *cohhian), and first appears in the language as Middle English coughen.
cough (v.)
early 14c., coughen, probably in Old English, but not recorded, from Proto-Germanic *kokh- (with the rough "kh" of German or of Scottish loch; cognates: Middle Dutch kochen, Middle High German kuchen). Onomatopoeic. Related: Coughed; coughing. As a noun from c. 1300.
