词族 · whisper
中文词源
whisper 耳语
拟声词。
英语词源
- whisper
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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.).
权威例句
- 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.
- 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。
- 3. Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper.
- 她会把声音压低，轻蔑地低语。
- 4. But don't whisper a word of that.
- 但是私下里对那件事什么也不要说。
- 5. His voice died away in a whisper.
- 他的声音渐渐变为了小声低语。
词语辨析
【whisper, mutter, murmur】
这组词都有“低语”的意思，其区别是：
whisper: 通常指耳语、窃窃私语。
mutter: 多指别人不易听到的低语。
murmur: 通常指人、微风或小溪等的低沉、柔和或连续的声音。
这组词都有“低语”的意思，其区别是：
whisper: 通常指耳语、窃窃私语。
mutter: 多指别人不易听到的低语。
murmur: 通常指人、微风或小溪等的低沉、柔和或连续的声音。