megaphone

• n. 擴音器，喇叭筒
• vt. 用擴音器對…講話
• vi. 用擴音器傳達

megalo-,巨大的，-phone,聲音，詞源同phone,fame.用於指擴音器。

megaphone (n.)

1878, coined (perhaps by Thomas Edison, who invented it) from Greek megas "great" (see mega-) + phone "voice" (see fame (n.)). Related: Megaphonic. In Greek, megalophonia meant "grandiloquence," megalophonos "loud-voiced."

1. A megaphone boomed out, "This is the police."

擴音器響了起來：“我們是警察。”

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2. Making monetary policy by megaphone never leads to good results.

誇誇其談的貨幣政策決不會取得效果.

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3. He hawks with a megaphone, saving a lot of effort.

他用喇叭筒叫賣, 省勁多了!

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4. Somewhere a voice is loud a megaphone.

遠處什麽地方的擴音器裏傳來響亮的聲音.

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5. He often speaks in public with a megaphone.

他常用擴音器當著大眾演說.

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