陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

audible/ blare/ cacophony/ cadence/ clatter/ discord/ dissonance/ eavesdrop/ grating/ hoarse/ husky/ mellifluous/ muffle/ rattle/ raucous/ resonant/ resonate/ resound/ reverberate/ sonorous/ strident/ tinkle

1. 「偷聽」、「竊聽」可用eavesdrop，「聽得見的」叫audible：

•Don't speak so loudly; someone is eavesdropping.

•His voice was barely audible above the noise of the machinery.

2. 正式英文中，聲音「圓潤渾厚的」、「悅耳的」用mellifluous：

•She loved him partly because of his deep mellifluous voice.

•The audience was captivated by the mellifluous sound of the cello.

3. 聲音「洪量的」可用resonant或sonorous：

•The announcer's deep resonant voice was particularly pleasing.

•The speaker's sonorous voice resounded through the hall.

4. 天生或因病導致聲音「粗啞低沈的」、「有磁性的」用husky，如要形容傷了喉嚨而使聲音變得「嘶啞」（不好聽），用hoarse。另外，（刻意）「粗聲粗氣的」叫raucous：

•Her husky voice made her very sexy.

•You sound husky--have a cold?

•You'll make yourself hoarse if you keep shouting like that.

•His raucous laughter irritated everybody.

5. 聲音「刺耳的」可用grating或strident，「刺耳嘈雜的聲音」叫cacophony：

•The grating noise of the machine made me hard to concentrate on my study.

•She scolded him in a strident voice.

•What (a) cacophony!

•A cacophony of voices in a dozen languages filled the airport.

6. （喇叭等）「高聲和刺耳地響著」叫blare，「嘎嘎作響」用rattle或clatter ，「發出叮噹聲」可用tinkle：

•The radio is blaring: turn it off!

•The window rattled in the wind.

•The metal dish clattered down the stone stairs.

•Wind-bells tinkle in the breeze.

7. 聲音「不和諧」可用dissonance或discord：

•Some contemporary musicians deliberately use dissonance to achieve certain effects.

•Much to our surprise, the well-known orchestra revealed much discord during yesterday's performance.

8. 聲音的「節奏」或「韻律」叫cadence：

•The warriors were highly inspirited by the steady cadence of the drums.

•We all enjoyed the melody with beautiful cadence.

9. 聲音「迴盪」、「回響」、「產生共鳴」可用resonate、resound或reverberate：

•The boy's voice resonated in the huge empty cave.

•The noise of the fire alarm resonated through the building.

•The hunting horn resounded through/ throughout the forest.

•The classroom resounded with cheers and applause.

•The entire valley reverberated with the sound of the church bells.

•The thunder reverberated across the valley.

10. 「把聲音蓋住、降低或隔絕等」叫muffle：

•He closed the door to muffle the outside noises.

•The sound of the bell was muffled by the curtain behind the door.