| 单词 | loud |
| 释义 | loud I. 1. a. < where ears are willing, talk tends to be loud and long — Aldous Huxley > < loud and protracted singing — John Burroughs > b. < the marten was loud beside them — David Walker > 2. a. < giving loud lip service … as a means of drowning the voice of conscience — B.G.Gallagher > < small but determinedly loud groups are mistaken for vast multitudes and are causing irreparable harm — M.R.Cohen > b. obsolete 3. < came along in the loudest pinstripe suit in history — John O'Reilly > < a loud fish smell which one night's hard rain hadn't even dented — Raymond Chandler > < he was stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any drawback of delicacy — Charles Dickens > 4. < loud vowels > < loud voiced consonants > — compare aloud, out loud Synonyms: < a loud cry > < a loud blast on a trumpet > < loud demands for reform > < a loud and unpleasant person > stentorian, chiefly applying to voices, implies exceedingly great power and range < a stentorian voice, husky from much bawling of orders — F. Tennyson Jesse > < a few words, rendered either completely inaudible or painfully stentorian according to the whim of the microphone — Times Literary Supplement > < blowing his nose in stentorian tones — O.E.Rölvaag > earsplitting adds the idea of a physically oppressive loudness, especially shrillness, as of screams or shrieks < suddenly he trumpeted, an earsplitting sound in the close stall — W.V.T.Clark > < an earsplitting cry of terror > hoarse implies harshness, huskiness, or roughness of tone, sometimes suggesting an accompanying or causal loudness < the hoarse growling of the mob — Kenneth Roberts > < voice came to my ears … tense and hoarse with an overmastering rage — Jack London > < the hoarse bellow of the bull whistle — American Guide Series: North Carolina > raucous implies a loud, harsh, grating tone, especially of voice, often implying rowdiness < the voices often become raucous or shrill and any proper dignity of the spirit suffers — W.R.Benét > < music of the city, raucous, jazzy, witty, dramatic — Howard Hanson > < women … gathering along the platform with thin, bright, raucous laughter — William Faulkner > < the raucous vitality of a mining boomtown — Seth Agnew > strident adds to raucous the idea of a rasping, discordant but insistent quality, especially of voice < scurrying traffic whose strident voice mingles whistle blasts with the hollow clang of bell buoys and the screams of softly wheeling gulls — American Guide Series: New York City > < a sort of a strident, metallic quality about her revealed in the high pitch of her voice — Claire Sterling & Max Ascoli > < her vocal attack often sounds strident and explosive — Newsweek > stertorous, usually not applied to sounds made by the voice, suggests the loud snoring, or sounds like snoring made in breathing, especially when it is difficult, by persons or animals in sleep, in a coma, or with marked asthmatic difficulties < the stertorous breathing of the owl — Osbert Sitwell > < the horse is trembling … its breathing stertorous like groaning — William Faulkner > II. < who screams loudest … when the dinner consists of canned tuna fish — A.C.Spectorsky > < Eskimo-tanned furs smell out loud, especially in a warm room — Newsweek > |
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