They were traveling quietly along, under the shade of the trees, when suddenly an enormous jaguar leaped upon them from a limb and with one blow of his paw sent the little Brown Bear tumbling over and over until he was stopped by a tree-trunk. Instantly they all took alarm. The Tin Owl shrieked: "Hoot -- hoot!" and flew straight up to the branch of a tall tree, although he could scarcely see where he was going. The Canary swiftly darted to a place beside the Owl, and the Green Monkey sprang up, caught a limb, and soon scrambled to a high perch of safety.英文原著 · 《The Tin Woodman of Oz》
Around them, for their wedding hymn, the same invisible orchestra, played on---- "Hoo-ooh-hoo!" At times the wind bellowed out in its deep noise, with a /tremolo/ of rage; and again repeated its threats, as if with refined cruelty, in low sustained tones, flute-like as the hoot of an owl.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Henry once told me that in the early part of his career, before I knew him, he had been hooted because of his thin legs. The first service I did him was to tell him that they were beautiful, and to make him give up padding them.英文原著 · 《Autobiographies》
It was then past midnight. The cottages were all dark. A single faint light gleamed out from the hallway of the house. There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour. It broke like a mournful lullaby upon the night.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath. The moon hung low, and had turned from silver to copper in the sleeping sky. The old owl no longer hooted, and the water-oaks had ceased to moan as they bent their heads.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Here, in my castle of Despair, I sit alone with memory; The wind-fed wolf has left his lair, To keep the outcast company. The brooding owl he hoots hard by, The hare shall kindle on thy hearth-stane, The Rhymer's soothest prophecy,--{3} My Love returns no more again!英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
That's what I used to say when I finished my shift at Hooters.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
What a hoot. I love it, and I don't use that word with just anybody.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》