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单词
cacophony
释义
cacophony
ca‧coph‧o‧ny
/
kəˈkɒf
ə
ni
$
kəˈkɑː-
/
noun
[singular]
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
cacophony
Origin:
1600-1700
Greek
kakophonia
, from
kakos
‘bad’
+
phone
‘voice, sound’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
A
cacophony
of violins, clarinets and trumpets fills the air.
Half of the record aspired towards the
cacophony
of grinding rock and the other half was still emphasising their pop flair.
Imagine the
cacophony
, the confusion-this must have been one crazed country back then.
Perhaps harmonies such as these could form a suitable accompaniment to a horror film, but normally one would avoid such
cacophony
.
Several hundred thousand newly arrived cars and trucks have turned Tirana into a
cacophony
of novice drivers, congestion and accidents.
She could have screamed and the sound would have been accepted as part of the
cacophony
.
The seals added to the
cacophony
as they barked and honked in alarm to their pups and one another.
Their excited babble and their laughter carried far - the
cacophony
that ruined many a good hunt.
a loud unpleasant mixture of sounds
cacophony of
a cacophony of car horns
—
cacophonous
adjective
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