whisper
英 ['wɪspə]
美 ['wɪspɚ]
- n. 私語；謠傳；颯颯的聲音
- vi. 耳語；密談；颯颯地響
- vt. 低聲說出
中文詞源
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 hwæstrian), and Middle English had whistringe grucchere "a slanderer."
- whisper (n.)
- 1590s, from whisper (v.).
雙語例句
- 1. I've heard a whisper that the Bishop intends to leave.
- 我聽到有謠傳說主教打算離開.
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. "So what do you think?" she said in a hoarse whisper.
- “那麽你認為如何？”她聲音嘶啞地悄聲問道。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper.
- 她會把聲音壓低，輕蔑地低語。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. But don't whisper a word of that.
- 但是私下裏對那件事什麽也不要說。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. His voice died away in a whisper.
- 他的聲音漸漸變為了小聲低語。
來自柯林斯例句