| 单词 | whispering gallery |
| 释义 | whispering gallery in British Englishnoun a gallery or dome with acoustic characteristics such that a sound made at one point is audible at distant points whispering gallery in American Englishnoun a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points Word origin [1690–1700]This word is first recorded in the period 1690–1700. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: additive, foolscap, freshen, momentum, syntheticExamples of 'whispering gallery' in a sentence |
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