| 单词 | vocal |
| 释义 | vo·cal I. 1. a. < silent and vocal prayers > < by gestures or vocal communication > b. 2. a. < vocal music > < vocal technique > — compare instrumental b. < a recital of vocal students > < organized a vocal group to sing his composition > 3. 4. a. < all vocal beings hymned their equal God — Alexander Pope > < our harps, no longer vocal now — Charles Wesley > < the brook vocal, with here and there a silence — Alfred Tennyson > b. < not that she made a fuss, but her back was most extraordinarily vocal — Willa Cather > c. < forests, vocal with the songs of many birds — American Guide Series: Washington > d. < the islanders are, by nature, highly vocal, and quite a few have reputations … as street-corner orators — New Yorker > < vocal in support of his party's candidate > < one way of proving that you are a good security risk is to be vocal and aggressive about your patriotism — H.S.Commager > e. < make vocal the aspiration of decent Americans for a just and lasting peace — Bruce Bliven b. 1889 > < the demand for special-training courses has not yet become vocal — H.P.Hammond > 5. < vocal dysfunction due to a throat infection > < vocal tone > < the organ had been … the vehicle of sacred music because of the sustained and vocal character of its tone — A.E.Wier > 6. < the vocal tract > Synonyms: < our most vocal theologians — one might almost say, most vociferous — are either at the humanist left or the neoorthodox right — W.L.Sperry > < this instantaneous indignation of the most impulsive and vocal of men — H.L.Mencken > articulate may suggest exact, distinct, or fluent and unmistakable expression in words < the deepest intuitions of a race are deposited in its art; no criticism can make these wholly articulate — Laurence Binyon > < perhaps the most articulate and effective champion of human freedom in post-Waterloo Europe — P.G.Trueblood > fluent suggests, sometimes depreciatively, a facile, copious flow of words < rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush — Aldous Huxley > < not a fluent talker. He seemed to express himself with difficulty — W.S.Maugham > eloquent may suggest easy expressive delivery of fervent, moving, or persuasive language < the eloquent arguments delivered about the wording of each phrase of the Constitution > voluble suggests fast utterance, sometimes inspired by protest or enthusiastic interest, that is hard to stop < a voluble person, but at last the flow of words stopped — Ellen Glasgow > < she was voluble, however, on the subject of divine punishment, and it was with difficulty that Vance stemmed her oracular stream of words — W.H.Wright > glib suggests ready facile utterance unembarrassed by the speaker's lack of depth, knowledge, wisdom, sincerity, or honesty < in some colonies any glib-tongued man with a pleasing personality could induce men to enlist under him as captain — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < a suspect who is a glib talker, who runs wild with his tongue and apparently gives out with all sorts of information — Lou Richter > II. 1. 2. < arranges his own vocals > < puts down his horn and takes the vocals — Wilder Hobson > — compare instrumental |
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