单词 | find one's voice |
释义 | > as lemmasto find one's voice e. The ability to speak or sing. Chiefly in to lose one's (also the) voice: to be (temporarily) deprived of the power of using the voice for singing or speaking, esp. through an infection or overuse. Similarly to find one's voice. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [noun] > faculty of producing voicea1393 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > lose the voice [verb (intransitive)] to lose one's (also the) voicea1393 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 3025 (MED) Thogh him lacke vois..wailende in his bestly stevene, He made his pleignte unto the hevene. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 217 (MED) If þei [sc. nerves] were kutt or prickid, þe pacient miȝte lese his vois for euere. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.:Wallner) iii. 99 Euel accidentez, as febre acute..abscisioun of þe voice [?c1425 Paris lesynge of the voyce], goyng out of þe eyen..bene dredeful & mortale..if þai abide. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 58/1 Penker..so lost his voice that he was faine to leaue off. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 82 An vnlerned lawyer had been hourese and almost lost his voice with ouerlong speakyng. 1681 T. Delaune & B. Keach Τροπολογία i. 153 It is said of a Wolf that if he first sees a man, the man loses his voice and cannot cry out. 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 46 A religious Nun..famed for Skill in Music and a fine Voice, had her Voice lost by a Hoarsness for ten Years. 1797 J. Beete Man of Times ii. vi. 30 Since I've got the salt water down my throat, devil burn me, I've lost my voice. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 476 In the one case..the voice was merely much weakened..in the other..the voice was lost altogether. 1838 J. Banim & M. Banim Bit o' Writin' III. 298 Biddy now found her voice, and pillalooed, and clapt her hands. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 353 Voice is completely lost, and cough becomes aphonic. 1922 Los Angeles Times 18 Mar. iii. 4/2 Janet suddenly found her voice. ‘What!’ she cried. 1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic xvii. 541 The Elizabethan vicar of Brenchley, Kent, who kept losing his voice when conducting the service in church, chose to blame this on the sorceries of one of his parishioners. 2000 Times 11 Jan. 16/4 When a tenor lost his voice in midperformance of Verdi's Aïda and left the stage, opera buffs were aghast. to find one's (own) voice b. to find one's (own) voice: (of a person) to find a means of expressing oneself; to arrive at an authentic mode or style of (artistic) self-expression. ΚΠ 1892 A. I. Ritchie Rec. Tennyson 9 Tennyson was soon to find his own voice, but meanwhile he began to write like Byron. 1942 College Eng. 3 533 In their books the southern mountaineer has found his own voice for the first time. 1975 Crit. Inq. 1 720 I have already found my own voice, my own style. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 8 June 32 Although he was influenced by French surrealism,..it was not until the 1960s that he found his voice. < as lemmas |
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