whisper

英 ['wɪspə] 美['wɪspɚ]
  • n. 私语;谣传;飒飒的声音
  • vi. 耳语;密谈;飒飒地响
  • vt. 低声说出

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词态变化


第三人称单数: whispers;过去式: whispered;过去分词: whispered;现在分词: whispering;

中文词源


whisper 耳语

拟声词。

英文词源


whisper
whisper: [OE] Whisper comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *khwis-, which imitated a sort of hissing sound. This also produced German wispeln and wispern ‘whisper’, and with a different suffix it gave English whistle.
=> whistle
whisper (v.)
Old English hwisprian "speak very softly, murmur" (only in a Northumbrian gloss for Latin murmurare), from Proto-Germanic *hwis- (cognates: Middle Dutch wispelen, Old High German hwispalon, German wispeln, wispern, Old Norse hviskra "to whisper"), from PIE *kwei- "to hiss, whistle," imitative. Transitive sense is from 1560s. Related: Whispered; whispering. An alternative verb, now obsolete, was whister (late 14c., from Old English hwæstrian), and Middle English had whistringe grucchere "a slanderer."
whisper (n.)
1590s, from whisper (v.).

双语例句


1. I've heard a whisper that the Bishop intends to leave.
我听到有谣传说主教打算离开.

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2. "So what do you think?" she said in a hoarse whisper.
“那么你认为如何?”她声音嘶哑地悄声问道。

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3. Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper.
她会把声音压低,轻蔑地低语。

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4. But don't whisper a word of that.
但是私下里对那件事什么也不要说。

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5. His voice died away in a whisper.
他的声音渐渐变为了小声低语。

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