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单词 cacophony
释义
cacophonyca‧coph‧o‧ny /kəˈkɒfəni $ kəˈkɑː-/ noun [singular] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcacophony
Origin:
1600-1700 Greek kakophonia, from kakos ‘bad’ + phone ‘voice, sound’
Examples
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  • 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 soundscacophony of a cacophony of car hornscacophonous adjective
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