tone是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a quality in the voice that expresses the speaker's feelings or thoughts, often towards the person being spoken to -- （常指對聽話人的）語氣，腔調，口吻

  • I tried to use a sympathetic tone of voice. 我試著用一種同情的語氣說話。

  • Don't speak to me in that tone of voice (= angrily), young lady! 小姐，別用那種語氣跟我說話！

  • It wasn't so much what she said that annoyed me - it was her tone. 令我生氣的不是她所說的話，而是她說話的語氣。

  • She recounted the story to me in shocked tones (= in a shocked voice). 她用震驚的語氣向我敘述了這件事。

  • I could hear the low tones of my parents talking in the next room. 我聽到我父母在隔壁房間低聲說話。

  • For more than half a century, the reassuring tones of BBC newscasters have informed British television viewers about world events. 半個多世紀以來，英國廣播公司的播音員用沉穩的語調向英國電視觀眾報道世界大事。

• 1 the general mood or main qualities of something -- 風格；基調，格調；氣氛

  • I didn't like the jokey tone of the article - I thought it was inappropriate. 我不喜歡這篇文章的搞笑風格——我覺得這不恰當。

  • Trust you to lower the tone of the evening by telling disgusting jokes, Mark! 馬克，你講粗俗的笑話肯定會把晚會的格調降下去！

  • Both candidates need to raise the tone of the campaign, as the electorate is tired of negative campaigning. 兩位候選人都得提高活動格調，因為選民們已經受夠了負面的競選宣傳。

  • He was in a very bad mood when he arrived, and that set the tone for the whole meeting. 他到的時候情緒很不好，這就決定了整個會議的氣氛。

• 2 a form or degree of a colour -- 色調

  • warm tones of brown and yellow 棕色和黃色這種暖色調

• 3 the healthy tightness of the body, especially the muscles -- （尤指肌肉的）堅實，結實

  • After you've had a baby you lose the muscle tone in your stomach. 你生完孩子後，腹部的肌肉就失去了彈性。

• 4 the largest difference in pitch between two notes that are next to each other in the western musical scale -- 全音（指西洋音階中相鄰兩音符之間最大的音差）

  • The interval from G to A is a whole tone. 從 G 到 A 的音程是一個全音。

• 5 the quality of sound of a musical instrument or singing voice -- 音色；音質

  • the beautiful rich tones of his tenor voice 他那美妙渾厚的男高音

• 6 one of the continuous sounds that you hear on a phone that tell you if the other phone is ringing, if it is busy, etc. -- 電話音

  • I've called him several times but I keep getting the engaged tone. 我已經給他打了幾次電話，但每次聽到的都是忙線中。

  • Please wait until you hear the dialling tone (= the sound that a phone makes when it is ready to be used). 請等到您聽到撥號聲。

• 7 If you tone a part of the body, you make it firmer and stronger, usually by doing physical exercise. -- （通常透過鍛煉）使（身體部位）更強健

  • This is a good exercise for toning up the thighs. 這種鍛煉對增強大腿肌肉有好處。