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Picture the pitch of a voice as a line that rises and falls while the words go by — up at the end and the sentence becomes a question, flat and it becomes a statement. Intonation is that line of pitch. In music the same idea is judged against fixed notes: is the pitch landing exactly where it should?
可以想成：說話時聲音的高低像一條線，隨著字一路起伏——句尾往上揚，一句話就成了問句；平平地收，就成了敘述。inton…更多收起
可以想成：說話時聲音的高低像一條線，隨著字一路起伏——句尾往上揚，一句話就成了問句；平平地收，就成了敘述。intonation 講的就是這條音高的線。到了音樂裡，同一個想法被拿來對照固定的音：音高有沒有落在該落的位置上？原始詞典資料5 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。
intonationnoun/ɪntəˈneɪʃən/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
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Emotive stress used to increase the power of delivery in speech.
- She well knew the power of intonation, and thought that, in the absence of the curled lip, the contemptuous twitch of the nose, and the supercilious toss of the head, her message might be acceptable for Louisa's sake,...
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A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument.
- This additional cause of the intonation of thunder, together with the simile with which it is illustrated, is copied from our poet, both by Pliny, Nat. Hist. ii, 431, and Isidorus, Orig. xiii.
- As when sulphureous fires, within the caves Of earth long pent, with intonation loud Burst through the riven rocks, and far as eye Can reach their furious devastation spread, So sudden, so resistless was the force Of this blasphemer's bold appeal to arms.
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Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
- Her intonation was false.
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Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
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。