whisper
- 英式英标[\'wɪspɚ]
- 美式音标[\'wɪspə]
n. 私语；谣传；飒飒的声音
vi. 耳语；密谈；飒飒地响
vt. 低声说出
英文词源
- 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.).
实用例句
- 1. I've heard a whisper that the Bishop intends to leave.
- 我听到有谣传说主教打算离开.
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. "So what do you think?" she said in a hoarse whisper.
- “那么你认为如何？”她声音嘶哑地悄声问道。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper.
- 她会把声音压低，轻蔑地低语。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. But don't whisper a word of that.
- 但是私下里对那件事什么也不要说。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. His voice died away in a whisper.
- 他的声音渐渐变为了小声低语。
来自柯林斯例句