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An adenoidal voice is unpleasant and sounds as if it comes mainly through the nose — blocked, thin, a bit honking, the way a person sounds with a heavy cold, or when the soft tissue high in the throat behind the nose is swollen. It is not a kind description; people use it when the voice is hard to enjoy. Doctors and ordinary speakers both use it, though it feels a little medical. Though actually, that sound can be short (a cold) or long (swollen adenoids, especially in children). The word describes the sound, not the person’s character — though films sometimes give a character an adenoidal voice to make them seem weak or whiny, which is a bit unfair.
鼻音很重的（說話像從鼻子裡擠出來）
組成From adenoid + -al (“of or relating to”). So: to do with the adenoids, or sounding as if they are in the way.
同家族的字
- adenoidsthe soft tissue behind the nose that this adjective points to
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adenoidaladj
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anatomymedicinesciencesOf or pertaining to the adenoids.
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Sounding as if the speaker has swollen adenoids.
- There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.
- Metzger, acting on instructions in the will, had retained this amiable, slightly adenoidal expert, for a percent of his valuation, to inventory and appraise Inverarity's stamp collection.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。