If you are hoarse, or your voice is hoarse, you speak in a low, rough voice. It sounds scraped, not smooth — the way you sound after a cold, after shouting at a match, or after crying hard. Your throat often feels sore as well.

If you are hoarse, or your voice is hoarse如果你hoarse，或者你的聲音hoarse you speak in a low, rough voice就是講話聲音又低又粗啞 It sounds scraped, not smooth聽起來像被刮過一樣，不是滑順的 the way you sound after a cold, after shouting at a match, or after crying hard就像感冒後、在比賽大喊之後，或大哭一場之後的聲音 Your throat often feels sore as well喉嚨也常常會覺得痛

It is about how the voice sounds, not how quiet you are trying to be: you can be hoarse and still try to shout, and it just comes out rough and weak. People also say a hoarse whisper.

It is about how the voice sounds這講的是聲音聽起來怎樣 not how quiet you are trying to be不是你想講多小聲 you can be hoarse and still try to shout你可以聲音沙啞卻還想大喊 and it just comes out rough and weak結果就是又粗又無力 People also say a hoarse whisper人們也會說a hoarse whisper（沙啞的耳語）

Informal to neutral; everyone uses it. 'I'm hoarse' and 'I've gone hoarse' are both natural after a long night of talking.

Informal to neutral偏口語到中性都有 everyone uses it大家都會用 'I'm hoarse' and 'I've gone hoarse' are both natural after a long night of talking講了一整晚話之後，說『I'm hoarse』或『I've gone hoarse』都很自然

Nothing to do with a horse, though the two words look like cousins and that spelling trap is famous. They are not family.

Nothing to do with a horse跟horse（馬）一點關係都沒有 though the two words look like cousins不過這兩個字看起來像親戚 and that spelling trap is famous而這個拼字陷阱很有名 They are not family它們不是同一家的字