whisper

• n. 私语；谣传；飒飒的声音
• vi. 耳语；密谈；飒飒地响
• vt. 低声说出

拟声词。

whisper

whisper: [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.
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whisper (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.).

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.

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2. "So what do you think?" she said in a hoarse whisper.

“那么你认为如何？”她声音嘶哑地悄声问道。

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3. Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper.

她会把声音压低，轻蔑地低语。

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4. But don't whisper a word of that.

但是私下里对那件事什么也不要说。

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5. His voice died away in a whisper.

他的声音渐渐变为了小声低语。

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