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When a voice or a piece of music is mellifluous, it sounds smooth and pleasant, as if it were pouring like honey. People use it of singing, speaking, or music — not of food, even though the old Latin pieces mean honey and flow. It is a warm, word, more at home in reviews and careful writing than in everyday chat. A teacher might call a radio host mellifluous; a friend would more often just say the voice sounds lovely or smooth. The sound is easy on the ear, not sharp or rough. Dulcet praises sweet speech in a similar way, but it is a different word, not a piece of this one.
甜美悅耳、如蜜般流暢（多形容聲音或音樂）
組成From Latin mellifluus, “flowing like honey”: mel “honey” + fluō “flow,” then English -ous.
同家族的字
- fluidsame Latin fluō, “to flow”
- superfluoussame Latin fluō, “to flow”
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。
mellifluousadj/məˈlɪflu.əs/
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Flowing like honey.
- Though in heaven the trees / Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines / Yield nectar; though from off the boughs each morn / VVe brush mellifluous devvs, and find the ground / Cover'd vvith pearly grain[…]
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Sweet, smooth and musical; pleasant to hear (generally used of a person's voice, tone or writing style).
- […] Socrates […] VVisest of men; from vvhose mouth issued forth / Mellifluous streams that vvater'd all the schools / Of Academicks old and nevv […]
- Join'd to Theſe [birds], / Thouſands beſide, thick as the covering Leaves / VVhich ſpeck them o'er, their Modulations mix / Mellifluous.
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。