monotone

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a. 单调的 n. 单调

发音

UK /ˈmɒn.ə.təʊn/
US /ˈmɑ.nə.toʊn/
CA /ˈmɑ.nə.toʊn/
CA /ˈmɒn.ə.toʊn/
US /ˈmɒn.ə.toʊn/
AU /ˈmɔn.ə.təʉn/
NZ /ˈmɒn.ə.tɐʉn/
NZ /ˈmɔ̟n.ə.tɐʉn/

词形变化

monotones 复数 monotones monotoned monotones 三单 monotoning monotoning 现在分词 monotoned 过去式 monotoned 过去分词 more monotone 比较级 most monotone 最高级

教材释义与例句

名词

单调;单音调

动词

单调地读

形容词

单调的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.

    可数 不可数

    When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.

    It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at firſt in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ſonorous and audible than when the voice ſlides up and down at almoſt every word, as it muſt do to be various.

  2. 2.

    A piece of writing in one strain throughout.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To speak in a monotone.

    及物/不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Having a single unvaried pitch.

    The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.

  2. 2.

    Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.

    数学

    The function f(x)#58;#61;x³ is monotone on #92;R, while g(x)#58;#61;x² is not.

  3. 3.

    Synonym of monochrome.

    媒体 印刷

词汇关系

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词源

From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.

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