英:['təʊnləslɪ]
美:['toʊnləslɪ]
英:['təʊnləslɪ]
美:['toʊnləslɪ]
词根:tone
adj.tonal 色调的;音调的
toned 年久变色的;有声调的,具有……音质的
toneless 沉闷的;单调的;缺乏声调的;无声的
n.tone 语气;色调;音调;音色
toner 调色剂,增色剂;色粉
tonality 音调;色调
vi.tone 颜色调和;呈现悦目色调
vt.tone 增强;用某种调子说
Adverb
1. in a monotone;
"`Come in,' she said tonelessly"
The first known use of toneless was in 1773
1 I think," the voice added tonelessly, "that this is an emergency.
2 In the film, Mukesh Singh, 26, tells this story tonelessly: It was after an afternoon of heavy drinking that six of them “went out to party” in the bus Ram Singh drove.
3 A new voice spoke now, not the tonelessly melodious voice, but the voice of an individual, yet a mental voice.
4 "I was in a cave, resting," she said tonelessly.
5 "Give me your hand, please, Captain," the medic said tonelessly.
6 The telephone rang again, and Mrs. Shelley enquired tonelessly whether he had received her invitation.
7 "That's most kind of him," Eleanor said tonelessly.
“他还真好心,”埃莉诺淡淡地说。
8 I am not," he was saying rather tonelessly, "talking nonsense, Lou.
9 "He is telling the truth," the metal box said tonelessly.
10 "Lord help me, Mr. Luke," he murmured tonelessly, "how did you know?"
11 "And bring down more rock with each charge," Harkness told him tonelessly.
12 She laughed a little tonelessly, and expressed the wish that she had been born a man.
13 "You don't remember the bearings, I suppose?" he ventured tonelessly.
14 “There's a name written in some of her books,” Prosper said tonelessly.
15 "I want to be alone to-day," the old man reiterated tonelessly, "and to be left alone."
16 “You need food and sleep,” he remarked tonelessly, pointing to the table, on which a meal was spread out.
17 "He says you are precious to him and he cannot leave you," she said tonelessly.
18 There is silence between them, till she speaks low and tonelessly, never loosing his hand. frances. Henry,
19 Lee said tonelessly, “We’ve talked a lot and I don’t remember that we have ever discussed me—ever.”
20 Only the man in the leather apron was calm; he was saying, tonelessly, "Ghrooogh-ghrooogh."
1 单调
even flat quiet vegetable plain dull pedestrian tame bald prose commonplace drab monotonous prosaic humdrum plodding toneless unrelieved singsong unvaried prosy subfusc flatly prosily monotony monotone sameness dullness blankness pedestrianism inanimation prosiness stark unexciting expressionless baldness drabness