Snivel

(noun.) whining in a tearful manner.

(verb.) cry or whine with snuffling; 'Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!'.

(verb.) talk in a tearful manner.

校对:洛丽塔

• I never snivel over trifles like that. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• What's set you a snivelling now? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Ye know that, said Tom; I don't pretend none of your snivelling ways, but I won't lie in my 'counts with the devil himself. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Why not have kept him here among the rest, and made a sneaking, snivelling pickpocket of him at once? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Don't stand snivelling there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• What do you come snivelling here for? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

校对:诺琳