cacophony

英 [kəˈkɒfəni]

美 [kəˈkɑːfəni]

n.  刺耳的嘈杂声

GRE

BNC.20572 / COCA.16277

牛津词典

noun

• 刺耳的嘈杂声
  a mixture of loud unpleasant sounds

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 刺耳嘈杂的声音;喧嚣的声音;嘈杂声
  You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as acacophony.
  1. All around was bubbling a cacophony of voices.
     周围人声嘈杂。

英英释义

noun

• loud confusing disagreeable sounds
• a loud harsh or strident noise
  Synonym:blareblaringclamordin

双语例句

• He talks to fortune about how mistakes can make great music and how to communicate, without speaking, over cacophony.
  他向《财富》杂志讲述了错误如何可以创造优美的音乐以及如何在一片嘈杂的声音中，无需说话即可进行沟通。
• Nature's symphonic world was drowned by man's industrial cacophony.
  大自然的和声世界被人类的工业噪音淹没了。
• At the risk of adding to the cacophony of competing definitions, I will offer the following.
  存在的风险，增加了不和谐的竞争的定义，我将提供下列的。
• In truth, it's difficult to distinguish in the cacophony each of the words shouted atop one another.
  说实话，在众声喧哗的那一刻，很难听出大家喊的是哪个词。
• When the cacophony grew too much to bear, I remounted and pedalled furiously, banshees screaming past my ears, my feet assuming a clockwork of their own.
  当这种杂音变得无法忍受时，我重新上车猛蹬起来，爱尔兰女妖④在我耳边尖叫着，我的双脚犹如上了发条般自动进行着机械运动。
• Perhaps he needs to remember, amid cacophony, that some of the best conductors are despots.
  或许他需要记住，不调和中，有一些最好的指挥是专制者。
• Control of information now belongs to 24-hour satellite television and the cacophony that is the web.
  如今，信息控制权属于24小时卫星电视和充满不和谐声音的互联网。
• Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums.
  在刺耳的一国语言中，他听到前方某处正上演着古怪的音乐，由鼓点伴奏的高音长笛。
• Never before had I heard such an unbelievable cacophony of sound.
  在此以前，我从来没听过这种难以置信的刺耳声音。
• Amid the brutal, ugly cacophony of war, Lilli Marlene always struck a sweet and tender note.
  在残酷丑陋的战争喧嚣中，丽莉•玛琳总是用她那温柔甜蜜的音符去抚慰人们心灵的创伤。