| 释义 |
murmured, ppl. a.|ˈmɜːməd|
[f. murmur v. + -ed1.]
Faintly uttered. murmured vowel = murmur vowel; also, a vowel-sound uttered with slow vibration of free vocal chords.
1800Campbell The ‘Name Unknown’ 26 Thy murmured vows shall yet be mine. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiii, Henry Smith stepped forward, amidst the murmured applauses of his fellow-citizens. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Sept. xviii, And with him sweet Euphrosynè, attent Upon his murmur'd wants. 1933L. Bloomfield Language vi. 102 Some languages..distinguish different voice-qualities, such as muffled vowels, murmured vowels, with slow vibration of the vocal chords, or whispered vowels. 1952R. Jakobson et al. Preliminaries to Speech Analysis ii. 26 It is highly questionable whether there are languages in which..there actually is a..distinctive opposition of voiced and murmured vowels. 1966M. Pei Gloss. Linguistic Terminol. 173 Vowels of weakly stressed syllables are sometimes murmured (reduced vowels), and they tend to lose their identity, contrary to fully voiced and whispered vowels. |