• n. 私語(yǔ)；謠傳；颯颯的聲音
• vi. 耳語(yǔ)；密談；颯颯地響
• vt. 低聲說(shuō)出

擬聲詞。

whisper

whisper: [OE] Whisper comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *khwis-, which imitated a sort of hissing sound. This also produced German wispeln and wispern ‘whisper’, and with a different suffix it gave English whistle.
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whisper (v.)

Old English hwisprian "speak very softly, murmur" (only in a Northumbrian gloss for Latin murmurare), from Proto-Germanic *hwis- (cognates: Middle Dutch wispelen, Old High German hwispalon, German wispeln, wispern, Old Norse hviskra "to whisper"), from PIE *kwei- "to hiss, whistle," imitative. Transitive sense is from 1560s. Related: Whispered; whispering. An alternative verb, now obsolete, was whister (late 14c., from Old English hw?strian), and Middle English had whistringe grucchere "a slanderer."

whisper (n.)

1590s, from whisper (v.).

1. I've heard a whisper that the Bishop intends to leave.

我聽(tīng)到有謠傳說(shuō)主教打算離開(kāi).

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. "So what do you think?" she said in a hoarse whisper.

“那么你認(rèn)為如何？”她聲音嘶啞地悄聲問(wèn)道。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper.

她會(huì)把聲音壓低，輕蔑地低語(yǔ)。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. But don't whisper a word of that.

但是私下里對(duì)那件事什么也不要說(shuō)。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. His voice died away in a whisper.

他的聲音漸漸變?yōu)榱诵÷暤驼Z(yǔ)。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句