whisper的意思

whisper

英式音标['wɪspɚ]
美式英标['wɪspə]

基本解释

n. 私语；谣传；飒飒的声音

vi. 耳语；密谈；飒飒地响

vt. 低声说出

whisper 耳语

拟声词。

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.
=> whistle
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 hwæstrian), and Middle English had whistringe grucchere "a slanderer."
whisper (n.): 1590s, from whisper (v.).

2. "So what do you think?" she said in a hoarse whisper.: “那么你认为如何？”她声音嘶哑地悄声问道。