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voice

英[vɒɪs] 美[vɔɪs]
  • n. 声音;嗓音;发言权;愿望
  • vt. 表达;吐露

英英释意


1. the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech;
"A shrill voice sounded behind us"
2. the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract;
"a singer takes good care of his voice"
"the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"
3. a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance;
"the noisy voice of the waterfall"
"the incessant voices of the artillery"
4. expressing in coherent verbal form;
"the articulation of my feelings"
"I gave voice to my feelings"
5. a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated;
"the voice of the law"
"the Times is not the voice of New York"
"conservatism has many voices"
6. something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression;
"the wee small voice of conscience"
"the voice of experience"
"he said his voices told him to do it"
7. (metonymy) a singer;
"he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"
8. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose;
"the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
9. the ability to speak;
"he lost his voice"
10. (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
11. the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music;
"he tried to sing the tenor part"