echo

英 ['ek??] 美['?ko]

CET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中頻詞核心詞匯

復數:?echoes;第三人稱單數:?echoes;過去式:?echoed;過去分詞:?echoed;現在分詞:?echoing;

echo 回聲

來自PIE*wagh, 回聲，回響，詞源同catechism, 教義問答。

echo: echo: [14] Echo comes via Old French or Latin from Greek ēkhó, a word related to ēkhé ‘sound’. It may have originated as a personification of the concept ‘sound’, which developed eventually into the mythological mountain nymph Echo, who faded away for love of Narcissus until nothing but her voice was left. (The Greek verb derived from ēkhé, ēkhein, is the ultimate source of English catechism.)
=> catechism
echo (n.): mid-14c., "sound repeated by reflection," from Latin echo, from Greek echo, personified in classical mythology as a mountain nymph who pined away for love of Narcissus until nothing was left of her but her voice, from or related to ekhe "sound," ekhein "to resound," from PIE *wagh-io-, extended form of root *(s)wagh- "to resound" (cognates: Sanskrit vagnuh "sound," Latin vagire "to cry," Old English swogan "to resound"). Related: Echoes. Echo chamber attested from 1937.
echo (v.): 1550s (intrans.), c. 1600 (trans.), from echo (n.). Related: Echoed; echoing.

1. Pinks and beiges were chosen to echo the colours of the ceiling.: 選用了粉紅色和米色，以跟從天花板的顏色。

2. Many phrases in the last two chapters echo earlier passages.: 最后兩章中的很多說法是對前面段落的呼應。

4. Political attacks work only if they find an echo with voters.: 政治攻擊只有在選民中引起共鳴才會有作用。

5. There was an echo on the line and I couldn't hear clearly.: 電話里有回音，我聽不清楚。