| 正面 | 5840.whisper 英 ['wɪspə]美 ['wɪspɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： deed--------"地的"----地契n. 私语；谣传；飒飒的声音vi. 耳语；密谈；飒飒地响vt. 低声说出 例句： 1. I've heard a whisper that the Bishop intends to leave.我听到有谣传说主教打算离开. whisper 耳语拟声词。 whisperwhisper: [OE] Whisper comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *khwis-, which imitated a sort of hissing sound. This also produced German wispeln and wispern ‘whisper’, and with a different suffix it gave English whistle.=> whistlewhisper (v.)Old English hwisprian "speak very softly, murmur" (only in a Northumbrian gloss for Latin murmurare), from Proto-Germanic *hwis- (cognates: Middle Dutch wispelen, Old High German hwispalon, German wispeln, wispern, Old Norse hviskra "to whisper"), from PIE *kwei- "to hiss, whistle," imitative. Transitive sense is from 1560s. Related: Whispered; whispering. An alternative verb, now obsolete, was whister (late 14c., from Old English hwæstrian), and Middle English had whistringe grucchere "a slanderer."whisper (n.)1590s, from whisper (v.)." |