核心畫面

Picture a bell that has just been struck. What comes out is not a bang. It is one clean note that fills the room, reaches the far wall, and hangs in the air for a second after the hit. Everything this word does comes off that note. Sometimes the word names the note itself, even when the note is only inside your own ears. Sometimes it describes a voice that behaves like that note. And sometimes the note has turned into words: a sentence said so clearly and so firmly that it carries to the back of the room and stays there.

可以想成一口鐘剛被敲響的那一刻。傳出來的不是「砰」的一聲,而是一個乾淨的音,填滿整個空間、抵達最遠的那面牆,敲完之後更多收起可以想成一口鐘剛被敲響的那一刻。傳出來的不是「砰」的一聲,而是一個乾淨的音,填滿整個空間、抵達最遠的那面牆,敲完之後還在空氣裡停一下。這個字的每個用法都是從那個音長出來的。有時候它指那個聲音本身,就算聲音只存在你自己的耳朵裡。有時候它形容一個像那個音的嗓子。有時候那個音變成了話語:一句講得又清楚又堅定的話,傳到最後一排,而且留在那裡。

Two branches

像鐘聲一樣的嗓子

從「聲音」變成「形容聲音」:拿鐘聲當標準,去描述別人的嗓子。

adjective · C1

Used about a sound or a voice that is loud and clear, and that carries far enough for everyone to hear it easily.

響亮清晰的

傳得遠的話語

再走一步,被形容的不是聲音,而是話的內容和力道。

adjective · C1

Used about a statement that is made with force and confidence, so that nobody can doubt where the speaker stands.

鏗鏘有力的

原始詞典資料7 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。

ringingnoun/ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/

  • 1

    The sound of something that rings.

  • 2

    The quality of being resonant.

  • 3

    A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.

  • 4

    The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.

ringingadj/ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/

  • 1

    Loud and clear.

    • They declare ringing confirmation for their theories even in the face of feeble data.
  • 2

    Made forcefully; powerful.

    • In what must be a first for any White House official, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had to step forward and answer whether the president of the United States wants to kill members of Congress. In a ringing defense of American values and constitutional order, she responded to the question by saying: “No.”

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。