voice
英[v??s]
美[v??s]
- n. 聲音；嗓音；發言權；愿望
- vt. 表達；吐露
英英釋意
- 1. the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech;
- "A shrill voice sounded behind us"
- 2. the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract;
- "a singer takes good care of his voice"
- "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"
- 3. a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance;
- "the noisy voice of the waterfall"
- "the incessant voices of the artillery"
- 4. expressing in coherent verbal form;
- "the articulation of my feelings"
- "I gave voice to my feelings"
- 5. a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated;
- "the voice of the law"
- "the Times is not the voice of New York"
- "conservatism has many voices"
- 6. something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression;
- "the wee small voice of conscience"
- "the voice of experience"
- "he said his voices told him to do it"
- 7. (metonymy) a singer;
- "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"
- 8. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose;
- "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
- 9. the ability to speak;
- "he lost his voice"
- 10. (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- 11. the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music;
- "he tried to sing the tenor part"