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（使）发出震颤（或碰撞）声;（使）发出格格声
When something rattles or when you rattle it, it makes short sharp knocking sounds because it is being shaken or it keeps hitting against something hard.
例句
She slams the kitchen door so hard I hear dishes rattle...
她把厨房门重重地关上，我甚至听到了碟子的震颤声。
He gently rattled the cage and whispered to the canary...
他轻轻晃动着鸟笼，和金丝雀轻声低语着。
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拨浪鼓;摇铃
A rattle is a baby's toy with loose bits inside which make a noise when the baby shakes it.
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（在观看足球比赛或举行部落仪式中使用的）急响器，响板
A rattle is a wooden instrument that people shake to make a loud knocking noise at football matches or tribal ceremonies.
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（响尾蛇尾部的）角质环，响环
A rattlesnake's rattle is the hard part at the end of its tail which makes a rattling sound when it is shaken.
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VERB
使紧张;使不安
If something or someone rattles you, they make you nervous.
例句
The news from Body Shop rattled the rest of the retail sector...
从“美体小铺”传来的消息令整个零售行业不安。
She refused to be rattled by his £3,000-a-day lawyer.
她拒绝被他以每天3,000英镑雇来的律师骚扰。
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VERB
（巴士、火车或汽车）哐啷哐啷地行进，轰隆隆地开过
You can say that a bus, train or car rattles somewhere when it moves noisily from one place to another.
例句
The bus from Odense rattled into a dusty village called Pozo Almonte...
从欧登塞来的巴士颠簸着驶入一个叫作波索阿尔蒙特的灰蒙蒙的村庄。
Somewhere close at hand a train rattled by.
一辆火车从我的身边轰隆隆地开过。