Vocal
['vəʊk(ə)l] or ['vokl]
解释:
(adj.) full of the sound of voices; 'a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children' .
(adj.) having or using the power to produce speech or sound; 'vocal organs'; 'all vocal beings hymned their praise' .
(adj.) relating to or designed for or using the singing voice; 'vocal technique'; 'the vocal repertoire'; 'organized a vocal group to sing his compositions' .
海丝特编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
(a.) Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
(a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.
(n.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
(n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
格雷戈里录入
例句:
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The sounds produced by the vocal cords are transformed into speech by the help of the tongue and lips, which modify the shape of the mouth cavity. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- His father was a teacher of vocal physiology at Edinburgh, and he himself became a teacher of deaf mutes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The birds use their vocal cords to beautiful advantage in singing, far surpassing us in many ways, but the power of speech is lacking. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The lips and vocal organs, and the hands, have to be used to reproduce in speech and writing what has been stowed away. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- A piano gives out sound whenever a player strikes the keys and sets in motion the various wires within the piano; speech and song are caused by the motion of chest, vocal cords, and lips. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The difference between a soprano and an alto voice is merely one of length and tension of the vocal cords. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Three other sirens made to give vocal sounds or articulate speech. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The start is from native activities of the vocal apparatus, organs of hearing, etc. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- After the coming of the Aryans into Greece, the vocal element became stronger in these proceedings, and thrust into the dance came a recitation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Successful singing is possible only when the vocal cords are readily flexible and when the singer can supply a steady, continuous blast of air through the slit between the cords. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- His School of Vocal Physiology had had to be abandoned, and he found that his only pupils were Miss Hubbard and small George Sanders. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Then, signior, I lay on you my sovereign behest to furbish up your lungs and other vocal organs, as they will be wanted on my royal service. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Boston University offered him a professorship, and he opened a School of Vocal Physiology, which paid him well. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
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