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Soundless means making no sound at all. It is an adjective, and it is a literary word — you meet it in novels, poems and careful descriptive writing far more than in conversation. In speech people say 'silent' or 'it made no noise'. So when a writer chooses 'soundless', they usually want the reader to feel the absence, not just be told about it: a soundless flash of lightning far away, a soundless film, a soundless laugh where the shoulders shake but nothing comes out. That last use is worth noticing — the thing is happening, fully and , but the sound has been taken away from it. That is where 'soundless' does work 'quiet' cannot do. It sits before a noun most naturally ('a soundless room'), though it can follow a linking verb ('the house was soundless') and then it sounds distinctly .
無聲的、悄然無聲的。偏書面、文學的用字,日常口語一般說 silent。
組成sound + -less (without). So: without sound. The suffix -less goes back to an old word meaning 'loose, free from', which is why it means 'lacking'.
同家族的字
- soundlesslythe adverb made from it
- hopelesssame -less, meaning without
- homelesssame -less, meaning without
- looseshares the old root behind -less, meaning free or not held
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。
soundlessadj/ˈsaʊn(d)ləs/
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Without sound.
- a soundless tableau
- Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless. Antony. Not stingless too. Brutus. O yes, and soundless too; For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony, And very wisely threat before you sting.
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Not capable of being sounded or fathomed.
- the soundless deep
- Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat, Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
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。