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英:[kəˈkɒfəni]
美:[kəˈkɑfəni]
ca·coph·o·ny
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复数:cacophonies
cacophonous (adj.)
词根:cacophony
adj.cacophonous 粗腔横调的;发音不和谐的
noun
a mixture of discordant and usually unpleasant sounds.Closing the window did little to mute the cacophony produced by the drilling of a jackhammer and the honking of horns in the street.The orchestra produced a cacophony as the players tuned their instruments.
in literary or musical composition, a discordant or unharmonious combination of sounds used for special effect.
1650年代,“刺耳或不愉快的声音”,可能源自法语 cacophonie(16世纪),源自希腊语 kakophonia 的拉丁化形式,意为“刺耳的声音”,源自 kakophonos “刺耳的声音”,源自 kakos “坏的,邪恶的”(源自 PIE 词根 *kakka- “排便”)+ phonē “声音”,源自 PIE 词根 *bha-(2)“说话,讲话,说”。 “音乐中不和谐的声音”一词始于1789年。相关: Cacophonous。
borrowed from French & New Latin; French cacophonie, going back to Middle French, borrowed from New Latin cacophōnia, borrowed from Greek kakophōnía, from kakóphōnos "disagreeable-sounding, cacophonous" + -ia -ia >entry 1
The first known use of cacophony was circa 1656
cadaverousadjective
resembling a corpse: as
pale entry 1 sense 1b, ghastly
thin entry 1 sense 3, haggard
cadavernoun
a dead body especially of a person : corpse
cadavernoun
a dead body especially of a person : corpse
cadnoun
a rude and selfish man
cactusnoun
any of a large family of flowering plants able to live in dry regions and having fleshy stems and branches that bear scales or prickles instead of leaves
cactusnoun
any of a large family of flowering plants able to live in dry regions and having fleshy stems and branches that bear scales or prickles instead of leaves
cactusnoun
any of a large family of flowering plants able to live in dry regions and having fleshy stems and branches that bear scales or prickles instead of leaves
cacophonynoun
harsh unpleasant sound
1 But the cacophony of the city around me is too exciting.
2 A cacophony of boos and catcalls rolled down the grandstand for a full two minutes.
3 During the season, there had been a ceaseless cacophony in that room of songs and stories and pleas for fifty cents to buy a soda.
4 Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums.
5 Relegated to the border, the columbines launch a cacophony of dense spikes, floral fireworks from lush round bases.
被移到花园边上的耧斗菜开出了密密丛丛的花,好像是从葱郁的叶丛间绽放出的花之焰火。
6 It was that same eerie cacophony of voices she’d heard in Flatbush and on the beach at Coney Island, the same foul stench.
7 Later, after my last class, I translated Ovid while sitting up against the cinder-block wall outside the band room, trying to ignore the groaning cacophony coming from inside.
8 No cell could function amid the cacophony.
没有一个细胞能在这么的一团糟里生存下来.
9 Each resident seemed to be making some contribution, however small, to the general cacophony of dropping pots, booming television sets, arguing voices, screaming children, and slamming doors.
10 Road surface, other traffic, wind noise and driving speed all contributed to the cacophony.
路面,其他交通工具,风声和行驶的速度都会不同程度产生刺耳的声音。
11 But common sense is rare amid the cacophony of corporate life.
但是在公司生活的杂音里常识是稀罕物。
12 Chicago has its own version of this strategy in six police districts, but it has been all but ignored in the current cacophony.
芝加哥的六个警区也有相应的策略,但在最近的纷纷扰扰中这些策略几乎被无视了。
13 Behind them, the jungle answered with its own cacophony.
14 Behind me, I could hear a cacophony of digital combat coming from dozens of other vintage arcade games.
15 Nature's symphonic world was drowned by man's industrial cacophony.
大自然的和声世界被人类的工业噪音淹没了.
16 Amid the brutal, ugly cacophony of war, Lilli Marlene always struck a sweet and tender note.
在残酷丑陋的战争喧嚣中, 丽莉·玛琳总是用她那温柔甜蜜的音符去抚慰人们心灵的创伤.
17 “All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony. I don’t have to tell you that.”
18 But the cacophony organized itself into a throbbing rhythm.
19 Butt common sense is rare amid the cacophony of corporate life.
但是在公司生活的杂音里常识是稀罕物。
20 I am listening, I thought, to the cacophony of my digestive tract.
3 口齿不清
5 不和谐音
6 杂音