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

• In fact, this film is so bad that no child should be made to have to watch this cacophony of noise.
  事实上，这部影片是如此糟糕，没有儿童应该有看这个不和谐的噪音。
• Their robot, named Popeye, was built to work out which voices are "relevant" amongst a cacophony of noise by combining video input and image recognition technology with sound analysis.
  他们的名叫大力水手卜泼的机器人的建造，为的是通过将视频输入和图像识别技术与声音分析结合起来，弄懂在嘈杂的声音之中哪一些声音是“有关的”。
• When the cacophony grew too much to bear, I remounted and pedalled furiously, banshees screaming past my ears, my feet assuming a clockwork of their own.
  当这种杂音变得无法忍受时，我重新上车猛蹬起来，爱尔兰女妖④在我耳边尖叫着，我的双脚犹如上了发条般自动进行着机械运动。
• At the risk of adding to the cacophony of competing definitions, I will offer the following.
  存在的风险，增加了不和谐的竞争的定义，我将提供下列的。
• All around was bubbling a cacophony of voices.
  周围人声嘈杂。
• The point is that the cacophony of analysis helps to explain why policymakers react in different ways to the same crisis and why it is so difficult for them to come up with co-ordinated action.
  关键在于，分析上不和谐的声音，有助于解释政策制定者在同一场危机中，为何采取了不同的对策，以及他们达成协同行动为何如此困难。
• From its cacophony of sound, the room has suddenly become very still.
  本来众声嘈杂的屋子里，突然变得非常肃静。
• And we hear best when we silence the cacophony of competing voices clamoring for attention.
  当我们让干扰注意力的不和谐声音沉默下来，我们就能听得更清晰。
• For Britons of that generation, however, it's a date that sets off a cacophony of signals.
  但对那个年代的英国人来说，那是一个有着复杂意义的日期。
• Silence is the basic ingredient for entering into our intuitive mind and to resist the cacophony of meaningless noises outside.
  静默是进入到我们直觉的精神世界和抵御外界毫无意义的杂音的基本要素。