| 单词 | resonant |
| 释义 | res·o·nant I. 1. < a harsh resonant boom > 2. a. < violins of fine resonant wood > b. 3. a. < a resonant voice > < the resonant beauty of his prose > b. < a new and more resonant sort of headling, the streamer — H.G.Wells > c. of colors < richer impasto and more resonant color — National Gallery of Art > 4. Synonyms: < the beating small drums — a hollow resonant sound — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < the connotative words … have a quality and tone which is resonant in combination as though a tuning fork had been struck — R.L.Cook > It may suggest clear and lasting carrying power and consequent force, intensity, or effect < it was resonant with feeling and through long centuries gave voice to emotions — H.O.Taylor > resounding adds the notion of echoing, reechoing, or reverberating as vibrations are thrown back < the sound of a great underground river, flowing through a resounding cavern — Willa Cather > Through the suggestion of repetition to make clear and unequivocal, it may connote the certain, positive, unreserved, and convincing < the queen of Egypt was not ill-pleased by the Parthian failure, since a resounding success would have made Antony independent of her — John Buchan > ringing may be associated with bell-like sounds, ample and full, made without external or contrived vibrating devices < a perfect ecstasy of song — clear, ringing, copious — John Burroughs > Used of speech or composition, it connotes the clear, vigorous, and fervent < his ringing appeal for independence … was followed in December by another shrill cry to the people, rallying them to the patriot side — C.A. & Mary Beard > vibrant calls attention to attendant vibrations and overtones in actualizing sound, but, unlike the preceding words, does not imply their reflection, continuation, or amplification < the speaker paused a moment, his low vibrant tones faltering into silence — Israel Zangwill > < a deep strong voice, more musical than any merely human voice, richer, warmer, more vibrant with love and yearning and compassion — Aldous Huxley > In other uses it connotes keen sensitivity, pleasing or invigorating awareness or aliveness < Latin verses that were freed from the dead rules of quantity, and were already vibrant with a vital feeling for accent and rhyme — H.O.Taylor > < there was something vibrant and clean about the sense of conviction and affirmation that was rising within us as the challenge crystallized — Norman Cousins > sonorous is likely to suggest fullness or loudness of sound without much suggestion of vibration or timbre < the deep, sonorous voice of the red-bearded Duke, which boomed out like a dinner gong — A. Conan Doyle > Applied to speeches and writing it suggests the imposing or high-flown < here all day long rolled forth, in sonorous Latin, the interminable periods of episcopal oratory — Lytton Strachey > < a sonorous declaimer … he went out of his way to invite majestic effects — V.L.Parrington > orotund, etymologically suggesting maximum opening of the mouth, likewise connotes full sound < to be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more orotund fashion — Vachel Lindsay > Applied to style of composition or delivery it may indicate the pompous or bombastic < the phrase needs be fitly orotund — J.B.Cabell & A.J.Hanna > II. 1. a. b. phonetics 2. |
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