rattle

• vt. キャッキャッ騒ぐ；おしゃべりする；パニックになる；慌てる
• ひっきりなしにしゃべる；カチャカチャ音を立てる。
• n. おしゃべりする人；キーキー言う人；うなる人
• n. （ガラガラ）人の名前；（英）ガラガラ

繰り返しを表すオノマトペ、-ル。

rattle

rattle: [14] Rattle probably existed in Old English, but in the absence of any direct evidence, it is usually suggested that the word was borrowed from Middle Low German rattelen, a relative of German rasseln ‘rattle’. Whatever its ultimate source, it no doubt originally imitated the sound of rattling.

rattle (v.)

c. 1300 (intransitive), "To make a quick sharp noise with frequent repetitions and collisions of bodies not very sonorous: when bodies are sonorous, it is called jingling" [Johnson]. Perhaps in Old English but not recorded; if not, from Middle Dutch ratelen, probably of imitative origin (compare German rasseln "to rattle," Greek kradao "I rattle"). Sense of "utter smartly and rapidly" is late 14c. Meaning "to go along loosely and noisily" is from 1550s. Transitive sense is late 14c.; figurative sense of "fluster" is first recorded 1869. Related: Rattled; rattling.

rattle (n.)

c. 1500, "rapid succession of short, sharp sounds," from rattle (v.). As a child's toy, recorded from 1510s. As a sound made in the throat (especially of one near death) from 1752.

1. The baby，dressed in a flowery jumpsuit，waved her rattle .

赤ちゃんはプリントのワンピースを着て、彼女の手の中のでんでん太鼓を振っている。

2.His rhetoric sounds like the death rattle of a fading leadership.

彼の気前のいい陳述は、落ちぶれた指導層の死のあがきのように聞こえる。

3.She slams the kitchen door so hard I hear dishes rattle .

彼女は台所のドアを何度も閉めて、私は皿の震えの音さえ聞こえた。

4.If he 's trying to rattle your cage，it 's working.

彼があなたを落ち着かせようとしているなら、彼は成功した。

5.There was a rattle of rifle-fire.

ライフルからカチッという音がした。