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词汇 bruit
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Definition of bruit in English:

bruit

verb bruːtbrut
  • with object and adverbial Spread (a report or rumour) widely.

    散播(传闻或谣言)

    I didn't want to have our relationship bruited about the office

    他不想让我们的关系在办公室传播开去。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's been bruited about by well-known theologians, sharp-tongued satirists and social critics (Mark Twain among others), but it's not really a very subtle point: The life of eternal blessedness sounds boring.
    • The idea of a plenary council for the Church in the U.S. has been widely bruited, but a plenary council has not been held since the nineteenth century and nobody quite knows what it would entail.
    • As Langdon points out: ‘Fears of a Jesuit complot to undermine republican institutions by means of infiltration of these institutions with graduates of Jesuit schools were widely bruited in the 1870s.’
    • Arthur's treachery was not bruited in court and will not make the newspapers.
    • Let it no longer be bruited about that we keep it to ourselves when we err - as if indeed we wished to appear superhuman.
    • The latter is based on the widely bruited notion that Gillette Stadium is ‘entirely privately financed,’ which isn't altogether true since $70 million in state money was spent on the surrounding infrastructure.
    • The idea that women are less able than men in science has been bruited about for centuries.
    • So should there have been a coalition of South Asian groups called to the table after the Bollywood Cowboy theme was bruited?
    • It is being bruited about that the council will have a Shiite majority, though the religious Shiite parties will not be allowed to dominate it.
    • In her recent interview with this publication, Garvey lamented that some of the cuts being bruited about in Congress could be ‘a hit for us.’
    • There are those of us who advised in vain that this sordid matter be quietly and wisely settled and not be bruited about in public.
    • That should cause some heartburn among Red Ken's supporters if it gets bruited about.
    • As Rennell says in a helpful appendix, the fact that Victoria accepted the ring is no evidence that they were secretly married as had been widely bruited in the 1860s when London society was agog with the notion that she had become Mrs Brown.
    • Seeming to respond to the radical interrogations bruited by M. Nourbese Philip in her She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, Atwood's later ‘Marsh Languages’ also critiques the construction of language.
    • Three possible days have been bruited about for holding another session of parliament, in hopes of forming the government - Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
    • For it had been bruited about that he was soon to emerge as one of the black hopes of Negro literature.
    • Meanwhile, in another city close to my heart, the concept of the football dream team is being bruited anew.
    • Constitutional reform, much bruited, was always a means to this, rather than an end in its own right: a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Right, which had initially wanted a strong Presidential system.
    • Even Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart was semi-seriously bruited as a Fontaine legover by sore losers after her his first election as AFN Grand Chief in 1997.
    • But that's not possible now that Alice is bruiting about the idea of running for the Senate.
    Synonyms
    spreading, scattering, dispersal, dispersing
noun bruːtbrut
  • 1archaic A report or rumour.

    散播(传闻或谣言)

    the wildest bruits were greedily credited
    mass noun is virtue to be established by common bruit only?
    Synonyms
    rumour, story, report, speculation, insinuation, suggestion, hint
  • 2Medicine
    A sound, especially an abnormal one, heard through a stethoscope; a murmur.

    〔医〕(尤指听诊中听到的)杂音

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On physical examination, it is important to look for postural changes in vital signs, presence of arrhythmias, carotid bruits, visual problems, gait and balance abnormalities, lower extremity strength, and joint function.
    • Stenosis in the artery causes a swishing sound, which is heard as a bruit on auscultation and also may be felt as a thrill or slight vibration in the vessel on palpation.
    • About one half of patients with renovascular hypertension will have an abdominal bruit identifiable on physical examination.
    • An arterial bruit can be heard over the liver in 7% to 29% of patients and is thought to reflect the highly vascular nature of the tumor.
    • A relative contraindication is the presence of carotid bruits, which should be evaluated by Doppler ultrasonography before proceeding with massage.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French bruit 'noise', from bruire 'to roar'.

Rhymes

acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute

Definition of bruit in US English:

bruit

verbbro͞otbrut
  • with object and adverbial Spread (a report or rumor) widely.

    散播(传闻或谣言)

    I didn't want to have our relationship bruited about the office

    他不想让我们的关系在办公室传播开去。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In her recent interview with this publication, Garvey lamented that some of the cuts being bruited about in Congress could be ‘a hit for us.’
    • It's been bruited about by well-known theologians, sharp-tongued satirists and social critics (Mark Twain among others), but it's not really a very subtle point: The life of eternal blessedness sounds boring.
    • Three possible days have been bruited about for holding another session of parliament, in hopes of forming the government - Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
    • As Rennell says in a helpful appendix, the fact that Victoria accepted the ring is no evidence that they were secretly married as had been widely bruited in the 1860s when London society was agog with the notion that she had become Mrs Brown.
    • Seeming to respond to the radical interrogations bruited by M. Nourbese Philip in her She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, Atwood's later ‘Marsh Languages’ also critiques the construction of language.
    • Meanwhile, in another city close to my heart, the concept of the football dream team is being bruited anew.
    • It is being bruited about that the council will have a Shiite majority, though the religious Shiite parties will not be allowed to dominate it.
    • As Langdon points out: ‘Fears of a Jesuit complot to undermine republican institutions by means of infiltration of these institutions with graduates of Jesuit schools were widely bruited in the 1870s.’
    • That should cause some heartburn among Red Ken's supporters if it gets bruited about.
    • The idea of a plenary council for the Church in the U.S. has been widely bruited, but a plenary council has not been held since the nineteenth century and nobody quite knows what it would entail.
    • For it had been bruited about that he was soon to emerge as one of the black hopes of Negro literature.
    • The idea that women are less able than men in science has been bruited about for centuries.
    • But that's not possible now that Alice is bruiting about the idea of running for the Senate.
    • Constitutional reform, much bruited, was always a means to this, rather than an end in its own right: a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Right, which had initially wanted a strong Presidential system.
    • The latter is based on the widely bruited notion that Gillette Stadium is ‘entirely privately financed,’ which isn't altogether true since $70 million in state money was spent on the surrounding infrastructure.
    • There are those of us who advised in vain that this sordid matter be quietly and wisely settled and not be bruited about in public.
    • So should there have been a coalition of South Asian groups called to the table after the Bollywood Cowboy theme was bruited?
    • Let it no longer be bruited about that we keep it to ourselves when we err - as if indeed we wished to appear superhuman.
    • Arthur's treachery was not bruited in court and will not make the newspapers.
    • Even Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart was semi-seriously bruited as a Fontaine legover by sore losers after her his first election as AFN Grand Chief in 1997.
    Synonyms
    spreading, scattering, dispersal, dispersing
nounbro͞otbrut
  • 1archaic A report or rumor.

    散播(传闻或谣言)

    Synonyms
    rumour, story, report, speculation, insinuation, suggestion, hint
  • 2Medicine
    A sound, especially an abnormal one, heard through a stethoscope; a murmur.

    〔医〕(尤指听诊中听到的)杂音

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On physical examination, it is important to look for postural changes in vital signs, presence of arrhythmias, carotid bruits, visual problems, gait and balance abnormalities, lower extremity strength, and joint function.
    • A relative contraindication is the presence of carotid bruits, which should be evaluated by Doppler ultrasonography before proceeding with massage.
    • About one half of patients with renovascular hypertension will have an abdominal bruit identifiable on physical examination.
    • An arterial bruit can be heard over the liver in 7% to 29% of patients and is thought to reflect the highly vascular nature of the tumor.
    • Stenosis in the artery causes a swishing sound, which is heard as a bruit on auscultation and also may be felt as a thrill or slight vibration in the vessel on palpation.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French bruit ‘noise’, from bruire ‘to roar’.

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