cacophony

英 [kəˈkɒfəni]

美 [kəˈkɑːfəni]

n.  刺耳的嘈杂声

GRE

BNC.20572 / COCA.16277

牛津词典

noun

• 刺耳的嘈杂声
  a mixture of loud unpleasant sounds

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 刺耳嘈杂的声音;喧嚣的声音;嘈杂声
  You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as acacophony.
  1. All around was bubbling a cacophony of voices.
     周围人声嘈杂。

英英释义

noun

• loud confusing disagreeable sounds
• a loud harsh or strident noise
  Synonym:blareblaringclamordin

双语例句

• A girl's piercing scream dissolved into a cacophony of shouts and cries.
  一个女生刺耳的尖叫声与杂乱的喊声哭声夹杂混合在一起。
• Control of information now belongs to 24-hour satellite television and the cacophony that is the web.
  如今，信息控制权属于24小时卫星电视和充满不和谐声音的互联网。
• Nature's symphonic world was drowned by man's industrial cacophony.
  大自然的和声世界被人类的工业噪音淹没了。
• Chicago has its own version of this strategy in six police districts, but it has been all but ignored in the current cacophony.
  芝加哥的六个警区也有相应的策略，但在最近的纷纷扰扰中这些策略几乎被无视了。
• He talks to fortune about how mistakes can make great music and how to communicate, without speaking, over cacophony.
  他向《财富》杂志讲述了错误如何可以创造优美的音乐以及如何在一片嘈杂的声音中，无需说话即可进行沟通。
• Amid the brutal, ugly cacophony of war, Lilli Marlene always struck a sweet and tender note.
  在残酷丑陋的战争喧嚣中，丽莉•玛琳总是用她那温柔甜蜜的音符去抚慰人们心灵的创伤。
• Heard a cacophony of horns during the traffic jam.
  交通阻塞时，听到一片不和谐的喇叭声。
• Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums.
  在刺耳的一国语言中，他听到前方某处正上演着古怪的音乐，由鼓点伴奏的高音长笛。
• Researchers have found that it is our left brain that picks out the desired sounds from a cacophony of loud and competing sounds.
  研究表明是我们的左脑帮助我们从各钟杂音中挑出想要听到的声音。
• And this kind of cacophony coming up from politicians is absolute madness.
  而这种来自于政策方面的是非常令人抓狂的。