Blubber

(noun.) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil.

(verb.) utter while crying.

琼整理

• Laws, Missis, if you's to whip all day, couldn't say no other way, said Topsy, beginning to blubber. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He was not going to blubber before a set of strangers. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• That gave thee too much emotion and thee ran blubbering down the bridge like a woman. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The boy gave the sausage to a peasant, who had very nearly seized it, and stood at the foot of the mast, blubbering, because he was unsuccessful. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Molly, the housemaid, blubbered in the passage when he went away--Molly kind and faithful in spite of a long arrear of unpaid wages. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

整理:米歇尔