| 释义 |
intonate /ˈɪntəneɪt /verbSay or recite with little rise and fall of the pitch of the voice.Because of this we weren't unduly concerned, but we did begin to notice that he intonates in the wrong places and some people have trouble understanding him....- Lyrical banalities such as ‘falling apart at the seams,’ ‘it's amazing,’ and ‘life's so hard’ clutter Smith's timeless themes, yet she is able to intonate even the most prosaic lines with a melodic hook that has me singing along.
- ‘You don't wonder in the least bit,’ he said, intonating words in the phrase to make it more alluring and memorable, ‘if they're discussing Father?’
Origin Late 18th century: from medieval Latin intonat- 'intoned', from the verb intonare (see intone). |