whispers
基本解释
- n.低语；窃窃私语；飒飒的声音
- vi.低声说；窃窃私语；飒飒地响
- vt.耳语；私语
词源解说
- 直接源自古英语的hwisprian，意为低声细语。
同根派生
用法辨析
- whisper的基本意思是“低声说”“耳语”,指轻柔地或悄悄地说话,也可指只作出说话的口形和语气,但没有出声。引申可表示“流传”“悄悄地传开”“告密”。
- whisper可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词或that从句作宾语。也可接双宾语,其间接宾语可由介词to引出,还可接以动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语,还可引出直接引语。
- whisper可用于被动结构。
- whisper用作名词时意思是“低语,耳语,私语”,引申还可表示“传闻,谣言”,是可数名词,常与不定冠词a连用,可用于复数形式。
- whisper还可作“轻柔的飒飒风声”解,只用于单数形式。
v. (动词)
n. (名词)
英汉例句
- Did she whisper in your ear at the meeting?
开会时,她跟你私下交谈了吗? - She whispered a reply.
她低声地做了回答。 - He whispered that he had got a new job.
他低声说他已找到了新工作。 - It is whispered that he is heavily in debt.
据传闻他负债累累。 - “Listen!”she whispered.
她悄声说：“听!” - He whispered the news to me.
他私下告诉我这个消息。 - She whispered to me that his temperature was up again.
她低声对我说他的体温又上升了。 - I whispered him not to make any noise.
我低声告诉他别出声。 - I heard a whisper that he had been admitted to a university.
我听传闻他已考入了大学。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)
用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.
S+～+that-clause
It is/was ～ed+that-clause
引出直接引语
用作双宾动词: S+～+ n./pron. +to pron./n.
S+～+(to) n./pron. +that-clause
用作宾补动词: S+～+ n./pron. +to- v
用作名词 (n.)
词组短语
- whisper a few words 低声说几句
- whisper affectionately 深情地低声说话
- whisper audibly 出声地窃窃私语
- whisper breathlessly 有气无力地低声说话
- whisper brokenly 不完整地低声说话
- whisper eagerly 热切地低声说话