| 单词 | echoing |
| 释义 | echoing (once / 1432 pages) adj Something that's echoing resounds or reverberates. The echoing halls of a large building seem full of repeating, reflected sounds. An echoing cathedral might resound with the notes sung by a choir, and a creepy haunted house could be echoing too, with mysterious bumps and groans. The adjective echoing comes from the noun echo, a "sound repeated by reflection," which is rooted in the mythical Greek figure of Echo. a nymph who pined for love until only her voice was left, echoing through the mountains. WORD FAMILYechoing: echoingly+/echo: echoed, echoes, echoing, echoless, echolike, echos, re-echo, reecho/reecho: reechoed, reechoing USAGE EXAMPLESSome companies continue to promise returns echoing those common before the financial crisis. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) “It’s a big data problem,” he said, echoing one of the trendiest terms in computing. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) Its overworked defense finally caved in, echoing a fourth-quarter home collapse against the Dolphins last month. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) adj (of sounds) repeating by reflection a hotel with echoing halls Syn reechoing reverberant having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected |
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