rat‐a‐tat‐tatの英語

発音

• 韻: -æt

名詞

rat-a-tat-tat (複数形 rat-a-tat-tats)

1. A series of short, sharp taps, especially made by knocking on a door, beating a drum, or firing an automatic weapon.
   • 2023 April 14, Rosyln Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A man, the source of the lamentation, appears and as he walks across the stage, his cries transmute into song, and the slow snare drum rat-a-tat-tat of Ravel’s composition begins.

間投詞

rat-a-tat-tat

1. A series of short, sharp taps, especially made by knocking on a door, beating a drum, or firing an automatic weapon.