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If a sound is plangent, it is loud and deep, and sadness rides inside it. Think of a church bell over water, a low string instrument, or a cry that keeps going. Writers like this word; ordinary people almost never say it. It describes sound, not a sad face or a sad day. You would not call a person plangent. It can feel old-fashioned and poetic, and that is how it is meant to feel.
淒厲深沉的（多用來形容聲音；文學用語）
組成From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“to beat; to lament”) — to strike, or to mourn out loud.
同家族的字
- plangencythe noun for this quality of sound
- plangentlythe adverb: in this loud, deep, sad way
- plaintivesame Latin root plangō, “to lament”; a quieter cousin meaning sadly complaining
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。
plangentadj/ˈplænd͡ʒənt/
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Having a loud, mournful sound.
- [S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
- Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.
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rareBeating, dashing, as waves.
- What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn, Plangent to what enormous plenilune That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?
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。