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A cacophony is the thing itself: a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds. Not one noise, but many at once, pulling in different directions, so the whole thing feels ugly.
A cacophony is the thing itselfcacophony就是這件事本身：a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds很多聲音混在一起、大聲又不悅耳。Not one noise, but many at once不是一個聲音，而是很多聲音同時出現，pulling in different directions各自朝不同方向拉扯，so the whole thing feels ugly所以整體聽起來很刺耳難聽。
A school corridor when the bell goes, a building site, a flock of birds over a market — those can be a cacophony.
A school corridor when the bell goes下課鐘響時的學校走廊，a building site工地，a flock of birds over a market市場上空一群鳥的叫聲 — those can be a cacophony這些都可以叫做cacophony。
Writers like the word because it is stronger than noise and more precise than : it says “these sounds do not belong together.” You will meet it in books and news more than in everyday chat.
Writers like the word because it is stronger than noise and more precise than racket作家喜歡用這個字，因為它比noise更強烈、比racket更精確：it says “these sounds do not belong together.”它在說「這些聲音根本不搭」 You will meet it in books and news more than in everyday chat你在書和新聞裡看到它的機會比在日常聊天裡多。
People also stretch it: a cacophony of opinions, a cacophony of colour. Again, that is a picture borrowed from the ears.
People also stretch it人們也會把這個字延伸使用：a cacophony of opinions眾說紛紜的意見，a cacophony of colour五顏六色雜亂的顏色。Again, that is a picture borrowed from the ears這同樣是借用耳朵的意象。
The matching adjective is .
The matching adjective is cacophonous對應的形容詞是cacophonous。
組成From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek kakophōnía, from kakós (“bad”) + phōnḗ (“sound”), equivalent to caco- + -phony.
同家族的字
- cacophonousthe adjective: sounding like that ugly mix
- euphonypleasant sound; the friendly twin of this idea
- symphonyshares -phony “sound”
- telephonephon- “sound”
原始詞典資料1 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。
cacophonynoun/kəˈkɒfəni/
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A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
- 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator, Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.
- The Japanese got their attack in first. About ten minutes after passing the U.S. aircraft, they spotted Hornet (local weather patterns temporarily concealing Enterprise). Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same[…]
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。