tones
📖 中文释义
- n. 声调；基本音色（tone的复数）
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
原形 tone变形 s3
💬 双语例句
She spoke in soft tones.
她以轻柔的语调说话。
Chinese is a language that has four tones.
中文是有四声的语言。
He doesn't realise that he's tone deaf.
他不知道他自己五音不全。
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n the quality of a person's voice
- n (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- n (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- n the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- n a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- n a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- n a steady sound without overtones
- n the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
- n a musical interval of two semitones
- n the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
- v utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
- v vary the pitch of one's speech
- v change the color or tone of
- v change to a color image
- v give a healthy elasticity to