rant
verb🔊/rænt/
🔊/rænt/
[intransitive, transitive] (disapproving)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they rant | 🔊/rænt/ 🔊/rænt/ |
| he / she / it rants | 🔊/rænts/ 🔊/rænts/ |
| past simple ranted | 🔊/ˈræntɪd/ 🔊/ˈræntɪd/ |
| past participle ranted | 🔊/ˈræntɪd/ 🔊/ˈræntɪd/ |
| -ing form ranting | 🔊/ˈræntɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈræntɪŋ/ |
to speak or complain about something in a loud and/or angry way 怒吼；咆哮；大声抱怨 - rant (on) (about something)
She was ranting on about the unfairness of it all. 她在抱怨这一切的不公平。 - rant at somebody
Stop ranting at me! 别再骂我了！ - + speech
‘It's not fair! They never give us a chance!’ he ranted. '这不公平！他们从来没有给我们机会！他咆哮。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘behave boisterously’): from Dutch ranten ‘talk nonsense, rave’.- rant (on) (about something)
Idioms
rant and rave
- (disapproving)
to show that you are angry by shouting or complaining loudly for a long time 气愤地大叫大嚷；大声吵闹 More Like This Alliteration in idiomsAlliteration in idioms- belt and braces
- black and blue
- born and bred
- chalk and cheese
- chop and change
- done and dusted
- down and dirty
- in dribs and drabs
- eat somebody out of house and home
- facts and figures
- fast and furious
- first and foremost
- forgive and forget
- hale and hearty
- hem and haw
- kith and kin
- mix and match
- part and parcel
- puff and pant
- to rack and ruin
- rant and rave
- risk life and limb
- short and sweet
- signed and sealed
- spic and span
- through thick and thin
- this and that
- top and tail
- tried and tested
- wax and wane