- 1刺耳的嘈雜聲、不協調的噪音
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 school corridor when the bell goes, a building site, a flock of birds over a market — those can be a 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. People also stretch it: a cacophony of opinions, a cacophony of colour. Again, that is a picture borrowed from the ears. The matching adjective is .
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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[…]
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