(noun.) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); 'the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience'.

(verb.) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval.

(verb.) express or utter with a hiss.

(verb.) move with a whooshing sound.

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• That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• Occasionally an ember rolled off the bank, and dropped with a hiss into the pool. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• So long did he linger, that the very urn died; it ceased to hiss. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Paul stooped down and proceeded--as novel-writers say, and, as was literally true in his case--to hiss into my ear some poignant words. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• She had once said that she would like him to stay; and stay he would, whatever fire-breathing dragons might hiss around her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• I heard the creature hiss as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the light and attacked it. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• Sams, who was Livius's publisher, was in my box, and ventured to hiss, which example was followed by a faint vibration from the pit. 哈里特·威爾遜. 哈里特·威爾遜回憶錄.
• Dog, she hissed. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• Give up your keys, you hardened hussy, hissed out the virtuous little lady in the calash. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• He has beaten me in the games, he hissed between his clinched teeth, but he shall not beat me in love. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• I have obeyed your wishes, hissed the Greek venomously; I have kept your secrets, but I will do so no longer. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• The last words she whispered in a hissing tone, close to his ear. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• The remainders, being cut into lengths and split open, were tossed into the pan, which began hissing and crackling over the fire. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• And Mrs. Sedley tossed out of the room, hissing out the word poison once more, and so ending her charitable benediction. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• It was so quiet in the cave, suddenly, that he could hear the hissing noise the wood made burning on the hearth where Pilar cooked. 歐內斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
• The great defect of that instrument was the rendering of the overtones in music, and the hissing consonants in speech. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• The only noise in the cave now was the hissing from the hearth where snow was falling through the hole in the roof onto the coals of the fire. 歐內斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
• In this first engine the steam had been allowed to escape into the air with a loud, hissing noise, which frightened horses and cattle, and was generally regarded as a nuisance. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• There were some groans and hisses, but the general sense of honour was much too strong for the condemnation of a man unheard. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• The rain pours; Gardes-du-Corps go caracoling through the groups 'amid hisses'; irritating and agitating what is but dispersed here to reunite there. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Loud cries of 'Shame,' mingled with groans and hisses, prevailed for a quarter of an hour. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.

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