Tonic
['tɒnɪk] or ['tɑnɪk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates.
(noun.) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale.
(noun.) lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine.
(adj.) used of syllables; 'a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word' .
(adj.) relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale; 'tonic harmony' .
(adj.) employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words; 'Chinese is a tonal language' .
(adj.) of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue; 'a tonic reflex'; 'tonic muscle contraction' .
編輯:丽诺尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
(a.) Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.
(a.) Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.
(n.) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
(n.) The key tone, or first tone of any scale.
(n.) A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.
校對:佩德罗
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Strengthening medicine.[2]. (Music.) Key, key-note, first note of the scale, fundamental note.
整理:普雷斯利
解釋/意思:
adj. relating to tones or sounds: (med.) giving tone and vigour to the system: giving or increasing strength.—n. a medicine which gives tone and vigour to the system.—n. Tonic′ity the healthy state of muscular fibres when at rest.—Tonic spasm (see Spasm).
布赖恩特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The crisp, fresh mountain air outside the cave acted as an immediate tonic and I felt new life and new courage coursing through me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- No; it should be bitter: bitterness is strength--it is a tonic. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very terror of his doom a strong stimulant and tonic. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Half-truths and illusions, if you like, but tonic. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For the academic intelligence abstract and abstruse mathematics are tonic and an end in themselves. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There are two kinds of spasms, clonic and tonic. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:谢尔比