undertone

单词undertone

基本解释

n.: 蕴涵的感情（或特质、意思）；寓意；弦外之音
网络: 底色；低音；低声

权威解释

• 蕴涵的感情（或特质、意思）；寓意；弦外之音:

  a feeling, quality or meaning that is not expressed directly but is still noticeable from what sb says or does

• 低声地；小声地:

  in a quiet voice

英汉解释

• 言外的意义

• 语调;味道

• 浅色,淡色;底色

• 潜在性质[成分,意义];(市场的)潜在趋势

• 小声,低声,悄声,压低嗓音,轻轻

• 低音;小声

词性分析

• 复数：undertones

同义词

n.hintsuggestiontracetingeundercurrent

反义词

n.overtone

例句

• He wished them "Good morning" in an awkward hesitating undertone as if he were doubtful how his greetings would be received.

  他尴尬地向他们问好，声音很低，又有些犹豫，好象担心他们会不睬他。

• It began to be said in an undertone, in the women"s workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and that "she had ways about her. "

  在女车间里，大家开始叽叽喳喳谈论起来了，说芳汀“天天寄信”，说她有一些“怪举动”。

• I began to sense in it something mocking, an undertone I had not heard at first.

  起初，我把它当做某种嘲弄般的声音，低沉得自己都听不到。

• He had a loud voice , but he deliberately muttered in an undertone at the moment .

  他本来嗓门挺大，但是此时却故意用了低调。

• "Well, " she said with the same undertone of contempt that seemed to pull her apart from him.

  “好了，”她仍然带着一些鄙夷的语调说，这种语调似乎正在把她从他身边拖走。

• He soliloquized in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse.

  他接过我的马时，别别扭扭地不高兴地低声自言自语着。

• Being careful not to wake up the mate, whose room was opposite, I spoke in an undertone .

  为了不致吵醒对面房里的大副，我只得低声说话。

• And he added in an undertone to the Queen, "Really, my dear, YOU must cross-examine the next witness. It quite makes my forehead ache!

  然后他对王后耳语说：“真的，亲爱的，下一个作证人必须你来审讯了，我已经头疼得无法忍受了。”

• There was an undertone of bitterness in his words.

  他话中有刺。

• It was a low dome of sonorous blue, with an undertone of sultry sulphur-color, because of the smoke that dimmed the air.

  低低的深蓝色的穹苍，带着一点儿闷热的硫磺气味，因为空气被烟弄得昏暗了。