tone
n. 音调, 音质, 语调, 语气, 色调, 气氛, 状况, 思想状态 vt. 给...定色调, 增强, 使...的声调和谐, 定音调 vi. 颜色调和 [计] 双音频
发音
词形变化
教材释义与例句
语气；色调；音调；音色
增强；用某种调子说
颜色调和；呈现悦目色调
释义与例句
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A specific pitch.
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(in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
全音
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(in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
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The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
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The pitch of a word's sound that distinguishes a difference in meaning, as for example in Chinese.
声调
声
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A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
过时 语言学Children often read with a tone.
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The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.
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State of mind; temper; mood.
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The shade or quality of a colour.
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The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
艺术This picture has tone.
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The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
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The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
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Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
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a gun
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The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
比喻Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.
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The quality of being respectable or admirable.
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to give a particular tone to
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to change the colour of
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to make (something) firmer
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to utter with an affected tone.
及物
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the one (of two)
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词汇关系
相关短语
词源
From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, tonos, and tonus.
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