| 单词 | monotone |
| 释义 | monotone (once / 5749 pages) nadj Monotone is a droning, unchanging tone. Nothing can put you to sleep quite as effectively as a teacher talking in a monotone. The Greek word for "one tone" is monotonia, which is the root for both monotone and the closely-related word monotonous, which means "dull and tedious." A continuous sound, especially someone's voice, that doesn't rise and fall in pitch, is a monotone. When someone speaks in a monotone, his voice is flat and boring — plus listeners don't know how the speaker is feeling when everything sounds the same. WORD FAMILYmonotone: monotones, monotonic+/monotonic: nonmonotonic USAGE EXAMPLESI hear it uttered in a shell-shocked monotone, with only the surreal precision of “8:56” keeping a silent scream at bay. Slate(Dec 21, 2016) Fisher rarely smiled and his gruff voice was monotone. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) “People melt down in a bragging situation, use a monotone, ramble,” she says. Wall Street Journal(Dec 05, 2016) 1n an unchanging intonation Syn|Hyper drone, droning intonation, modulation, pitch contour rise and fall of the voice pitch 2n a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) Hyper musical note, note, tone a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound 3adj sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch Syn flat, monotonic, monotonous unmodulated characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume 4adj of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value Syn|Ant monotonic decreasing monotonic consistently decreasing increasing monotonicconsistently increasing nonmonotonic not monotonic |
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