3mustn’t/can’t grumbleBritish EnglishBrE spokenCOMPLAIN used to say that you are fairly healthy and happy 還不錯〔用來表示自己健康愉悅〕
‘How are you today?’ ‘Mustn’t grumble.’
“你今天好嗎?”“還不錯。”
—grumble noun [countableC]
the usual grumbles about pay
對工資的經常性抱怨
Examples from the Corpus
grumble• She grumbles a bit about me waking her up, but I don't think she minds all that much.• She was grumbling about having to work so late.• The people standing beside me were grumbling about not being able to find a place to park.• Slavesmumble, workersgrumble and students mutter.• The old man turned away, grumbling as he went.• I remember now Mrs Maybury grumbling because she'd had to do it all herself.• Thundergrumbled in the distance.• Although she grumbles that T.S. Eliot does so much, she is all game for it herself.• That they exist is something of a miracle, so one should not grumble that the lines are often inaudible.• Mrs Archergrumbled to Janey, the only witness of her slightlapses from perfectsweetness.