whisper
英 ['w?sp?]
美['w?sp?]
- n. 私語(yǔ)；謠傳；颯颯的聲音
- vi. 耳語(yǔ)；密談；颯颯地響
- vt. 低聲說(shuō)出
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?whispers;過(guò)去式:?whispered;過(guò)去分詞:?whispered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?whispering;
中文詞源
whisper 耳語(yǔ)
擬聲詞。
英文詞源
- whisper
- whisper: [OE] Whisper comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *khwis-, which imitated a sort of hissing sound. This also produced German wispeln and wispern ‘whisper’, and with a different suffix it gave English whistle.
=> whistle - whisper (v.)
- Old English hwisprian "speak very softly, murmur" (only in a Northumbrian gloss for Latin murmurare), from Proto-Germanic *hwis- (cognates: Middle Dutch wispelen, Old High German hwispalon, German wispeln, wispern, Old Norse hviskra "to whisper"), from PIE *kwei- "to hiss, whistle," imitative. Transitive sense is from 1560s. Related: Whispered; whispering. An alternative verb, now obsolete, was whister (late 14c., from Old English hw?strian), and Middle English had whistringe grucchere "a slanderer."
- whisper (n.)
- 1590s, from whisper (v.).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. I've heard a whisper that the Bishop intends to leave.
- 我聽(tīng)到有謠傳說(shuō)主教打算離開(kāi).
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. "So what do you think?" she said in a hoarse whisper.
- “那么你認(rèn)為如何？”她聲音嘶啞地悄聲問(wèn)道。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper.
- 她會(huì)把聲音壓低，輕蔑地低語(yǔ)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. But don't whisper a word of that.
- 但是私下里對(duì)那件事什么也不要說(shuō)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. His voice died away in a whisper.
- 他的聲音漸漸變?yōu)榱诵÷暤驼Z(yǔ)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
