“I don’t call those friends who betray and ruin you,” murmured the wife in her turn, in a low, muttering voice

“那些出卖你，使你倾家荡产的人，我才不会把他们叫做朋友呢。”那女人自言自语地低声说道。

Quit muttering !

别嘀咕!

John Bunsby long examined the threatening aspect of the heavens, muttering indistinctly between his teeth

船主仔细看了半天大海上空这种不利于航行的景象，嘴里一边嘟囔着，也听不清他说些什么。

The nearby diners were staring at them and muttering

附近就餐的人盯着他们，窃窃私语起来。

She was muttering away to some man, and I happened to overhear what she was saying nobody else would have guessed who it was she was talking about, but I knew straight away it was you she meant

她和一个男人叽叽咕咕讲了半天的话。我带便一听，--别人家一定不懂他们讲的是谁，我却是一听就明白。

She kept on muttering to herself

她老是一个人嘀嘀咕咕。

Then, suddenly, whilst I rejoiced in this splendid vigour of a new-found self, from far away there came the dreadful muttering noise

就在我陶醉在这种崭新的，生机蓬勃的自我之中时，突然远处传来了那可怕的，低沉的吼声。

The man retreated. Soapy walked on, muttering insults against policemen who would not arrest him.

那人溜走了，苏比还继续往前走，一边走一边低声咒骂就是不逮捕他的那几个警察。

Are you muttering threats at me?

你是在低声恐吓我吗?

Are you muttering threat at me?

你是在咕咕哝哝地对我说威胁话吗?

Sarah was muttering away to herself as she did the washing-up

萨拉一边洗碗碟一边独自咕哝个没完

A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide

神经质的抽搐，无意识的忧虑，自言自语的习惯--只要是有那么点行为反常，遮遮掩掩，总归是危险的信号。

He was muttering away to himself

他不停地喃喃自语。

He was muttering on the telephone so I asked him to speak more clearly.

他打电话声音很低，因此我让他说得清楚些。

He was quite annoyed, and went off muttering threats under his breath

他很恼怒,低声咕哝着威胁的话走掉了。

The low, muttering sounds of his threatening voice were still audible, when the wounded foal, first rearing on its hinder legs, plunged forward to its knees

他那威胁语气的低语声还没停歇，那匹受伤的小马先是前腿腾空，用后腿直立起来，接着就一头倒在地上。

How to Understand Muttering Written by Qian Zhong-shu

怎样解读钱钟书《沉吟》

Albert poured himself out a glass of lacryma Christi, which he sipped at intervals, muttering some unintelligible words

这才说得有点道理!”阿尔贝给自己倒了一杯红葡萄洒，不时地喝上一口，嘴里喃喃地说着一些让人听不清楚的话。

||1:No one paid particular attention to the boy who haunted his local mosque in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, and Ibrahim Awad never said much to them.||2:When he did, he mumbled, being shy.||3:His father taught Koranic chant there, so in his spare time Ibrahim would do the same, unobserved in some corner, muttering over the holy book.||4:When it came to singing out, though, he would suddenly find his voice, making the words ring through the building.||5:They noticed him then.

||1:萨马拉位于巴格达以北60英里，没人注意到在当地的清真寺出没的易卜拉欣·阿瓦徳，他也从未和他们有过很多交流。||2:他说话的时候都是喃喃自语，非常害羞。||3:他的父亲在那里教《古兰经》，所以易卜拉欣会做同样的事，在某个没人的角落低声读着这本圣书。||4:但是，在唱圣歌的时候，阿瓦德会突然找到自己的声音，让歌声响彻在整座建筑中。||5:这样他们就会注意到他。

||1:It might, but all that money could also have nasty long-term side-effects.||2:Hawks at the ECB are already muttering about the problem of banks becoming addicted to cheap central-bank funds.||3:And by encouraging Italian or Spanish banks to buy their governments’ bonds, LTRO reinforces the close links between the peripheral economies’ sovereign debt and the health of their banks.

||1:三年期贷款可能有这种作用，但也可能产生长期的负面影响。||2:欧洲央行的鹰派已经开始抱怨各国银行沉溺于央行的廉价基金。||3:三年期贷款刺激了意大利或者西班牙用所获资金购买国债，将次要经济体主权债务与其银行健康状况捆绑得更紧。

As for your initially meagre vocabulary, don’t be shy about substituting an English word into your muttering —

至于一开始的词汇量贫乏，不要羞于用一个英语单词来代替你的低声咕哝——

Sara sits in her parked car with her eyes closed, muttering to herself.

Sara坐在停着的车内，闭上双眼自言自语地嘀咕着。

Emirates is already muttering about more orders at the next big air show, in November on its home turf in Dubai.

阿联酋已经在抱怨，在下一个大型飞行表演（11月份在迪拜的草地上举行）中将有更多的订单。

But Michael just stares coldly into the dark as he lays on the floor, muttering , “I put my blood into this. ”

但是Michael只是躺在地板上，面无表情地凝视着暗处，喃喃的说，“我把全部的心血都投进去了。”

Of course, for the moment all this muttering about gold is simply wild speculation.

当然在现阶段，所有这些关于黄金的低声议论还只是胡乱猜想。

He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took them also, muttering

对铜币他稍稍犹豫了一下，想了想，他嘟囔着也拿了去

No wonder, though barely a year after the advent of the crisis, that some investors are muttering about Goldman having excess capital.

怪不得，尽管距离危机爆发仅仅一年，一些投资者已经开始抱怨高盛资本过剩。

Another would walk slowly in, step by step, muttering his morning prayers the while.

还有人缓缓地从台阶上一步步走进水里，嘴里还念着晨经。

Someday I will be muttering “under the seat in front of you” in the old-age home for flight attendants.

将来有一天我会继续在乘务员的“晚年之家”轻声细语“在你前面座位的下方”。

As a result, some manufacturers are muttering about moving to South Korea.

结果，一些制造商开始抱怨要移师南韩。

Quit muttering!

别嘀咕!,vi.1. 离开;迁出,2. 停止,3. 放弃斗争,认输,4. 【口】辞职,a.1. 摆脱了...的,了结的[F][(+of)]

muttering in sleep

呼中呢喃