tone

释义

n.

语气；色调；音调；口气

v.

使更健壮；使更结实；使更有力；与…协调

网络

语调；音色；声调

词形变化

复数：tones 过去分词：toned 现在分词：toning

常用短语 20 组

skin tone

肤色；皮肤影调

tone of voice

语调；声调；口吻

set the tone

定调子

tone up

增强；提高（声调等）；使更健康

muscle tone

肌张力；肌肉紧张度

color tone

色调；色光

tone color

音色；（文艺的）风格

ring tone

电话铃音

pure tone

纯音

tone down

缓和；柔和；降低

single tone

单频；单音；单音信号

low tone

低（声）调

affective tone

情调

tone quality

音质，音品

falling tone

降调；去声

busy tone

忙音

tone colour

[音]音色

dial tone

拨号音；拨号音调

rising tone

升调；阳平；上声

sets the tone

定下基调

在例句中理解 34 句

1. Although a few executives at the summit this week did point to signs of stabilization, the overall tone was one of caution.

   虽然参加精英汇的一些高管们的确指出了经济形势稳定的迹象，但是总体态度仍然谨慎。

2. repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them! '

   鸽子重复着，可是已经是用很低的声音在说话了，然后还呜咽地加了一句：“我各种方法都试过了，但是没有一样能叫它们满意！”

3. It's conversational in tone: Blog writing tends to be a little more personal than most writing.

   口语化：博客写作比其它多数写作都更个人化。

4. in obtaining this information, Wang told reporters that the text did not accept out- of - court settlement, is very firm tone.

   在获得这个消息前，王纳文曾对记者表示不接受庭外和解，语气显得十分坚定。

5. "I've been able to set a tone to what I do so I haven't had to be the guy standing in the front, " he says.

   “我只是给我要做的定个基调，所以我不需要站在前面，”杰克逊说。

6. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. Tulkinghorn from his case.

   一件精巧的乐器往往很容易从它的外形就判断出它的音质，同样地，你从图金霍恩先生的外表也可以看出他的气质。

7. He was puzzled by the tone in which she had summoned him; he concluded that she was less simple than she seemed.

   她约他前来时的口吻令他困惑不解，他断定她并不像表面上那样单纯。

8. Home that night after the tone a bit hard to me, of course, listening to her a bit uncomfortable, then we will fight a few small.

   那天晚上回家以后，我说话口气有点硬，当然她听着有点不舒服，随后我们就小争了几句。

9. Tone down and put some of that hard earned cash into a safe, long-term investment.

   把辛苦挣来的钱用到一个安全的长期的投资。

10. Then his tone was a bit nicer, and he told me the husband and wife down in 8621 aren't even humans, that they're traitors.

    后来他的语气缓和了些，告诉我楼下的8261的两夫妻不是东西，是叛徒，他们影响团结，造谣生事。

11. 'I've been calling you for ten minutes, 'said Marguerite from her window in a tone that verged on the peremptory.

    “我叫了您有十分钟了，”玛格丽特的窗口说，口气几乎有些生硬。

12. "That sounds perfectly reasonable, " he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure.

    但是他却用令人安心的语气说道“这个提议听上去很合理”，可是连他自己也不知道是要安谁的心。

13. For men who reported negative feelings, the prevailing tone was one of emptiness and loneliness.

    空虚寂寞是那些感觉不好的男人们的普遍口吻。

14. Silver-tone hands with luminous fill make it easy to tell time day or night, and the slim second hand is detailed with a red accent.

    发光的银色色调手填可以很容易地告诉白天或晚上的时间，并带有一个红色的口音详细纤细秒针。

15. My vehemence , the tone of my demand, impatient and full of anger, lent me an air of justification, the advantage of a well founded claim.

    我的激烈，说出要求时不耐烦又充满怒意的语气，提供给我一种拥有正当理由的气势，一个能提出站得住脚的索求的有利地位。

16. The last but not the least, the existence of various thoughts, behaviors and values is the tone of a mutable society.

    多样化的思维、行为模式与价值观，这便是多元社会的色彩交织。

17. A drop in the President's tone, a shift of his eyes to Hopkins, told Pug he was now overstaying his time.

    总统的声调突然沉了下去，目光向霍普金斯一瞥，这使帕格知道他逗留的时间已经过长。

18. But Enzi adopted a negative tone when he gave the Republican response to one of President Obama's recent weekly radio addresses.

    但是恩兹在代表共和党人回应奥巴马总统近期的每周例行电台讲话时，采取了消极的口吻。

19. As new performers take the stage, the tone changes from subtle flirtations to that of hedonistic pleasure.

    随后，一名新的表演者登上舞台。音乐也从轻微的挑逗风格转变为享乐的快感。

20. He said he is alarmed by the increasingly partisan tone to the debate in the United States over continued military operations in Iraq.

    他称他对美国党派日旷持久地在美是否继续在伊进行军事行动问题上进行争论表示警觉。

21. Yan Shu, did not think of the Tang Dynasty not only did not blame her, but the others to tone and she said this of a series of words.

    颜姝，没想到唐朝不但没指责她，反而以同龄人的口吻和她说了这一系列话。

22. She brushed the drops away with the back of her hand; and in a cheerful tone, went on to assure Mary the bed was well aired.

    她用手背抹去了泪水，带着愉快的口吻告诉玛丽说，床上的被褥恰好晒过。

23. The last two years of his life were those of a dying man. He wrote more poems, and a religious tone, albeit Laurentian , dominates many.

    他一生的最后两年实在可算是一个行将辞世者度过的日子。他写了较多的诗歌，尽管仍不失劳伦斯式的诗体特色，但其中许多首里宗教情调占主导地位。

24. "Then stay with me a little longer, " Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan.

    “那就跟我多呆一会儿吧，”奥兰斯卡夫人低声说，并用她的羽毛扇轻轻碰了一下他的膝盖。

25. Pink marble-paved streets wind up and down in a gentle undulation between houses and powers of flesh tone rock.

    粉色大理石铺就的街道以一种优雅的形态起伏穿梭在肉色的房屋和高塔之间。

26. Think about that you are talk with your friends with a humorous tone, it must be an amused conversation.

    想想，你用一种幽默的语调和一群朋友们聊天，聊天会很愉快的。

27. He said that Consumer Reports suggested Apple should "just give everyone a free case - so we are. " His tone was close to a snarl.

    乔布斯表示，《消费者报告》杂志建议苹果公司应当“向用户提供免费的维修服务”，所以我们才这样做。

28. The book's tone is by no means as bleak as you might suppose (or maybe as it should be): Mr Clark writes with disarming wit.

    这本书基调决不像你可能想像的那么灰暗（或像它本应的那么灰暗）：克拉克的写作风格机智地令人失去警觉。

29. The husband did not, however, appear to share this conviction, and tried to take a gloomy tone with Rostov.

    但是，丈夫似乎无此看法，而是忧郁地尽量应付罗斯托夫。

30. But the ecumenical tone of his lecture did not stop him making a partisan attack on the economic policies of Mr Cameron.

    不过，演讲的宗教基调并没有阻止布朗对卡梅伦的经济政策进行党派性抨击。

31. Her tone was sharp with anger.

    她很气愤，语气尖刻。

32. It was obvious from her tone of voice that she didn’t like me.

    从她的语气明显听得出来她不喜欢我。

33. Perhaps a darker tone would be better.

    可能再深一点的色调更好。

34. your skin tone

    你的肤色