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

• Many notes can be played but if they are not in harmony they will create a horrible cacophony.
  如果很多的声音不是很协调的发出，可能是一种可怕的经历。
• Never before had I heard such an unbelievable cacophony of sound.
  在此以前，我从来没听过这种难以置信的刺耳声音。
• 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。
• Perhaps he needs to remember, amid cacophony, that some of the best conductors are despots.
  或许他需要记住，不调和中，有一些最好的指挥是专制者。
• Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums.
  在刺耳的一国语言中，他听到前方某处正上演着古怪的音乐，由鼓点伴奏的高音长笛。
• Researchers have found that it is our left brain that picks out the desired sounds from a cacophony of loud and competing sounds.
  研究表明是我们的左脑帮助我们从各钟杂音中挑出想要听到的声音。
• By the time Stephen Morgan turned himself into the police Thursday evening, cacophony had returned to the ACB, albeit more restrained than usual.
  在那时，斯蒂芬•摩根在星期四的晚上潜入了当地的警察局，ACB又回到了以往的嘈杂，虽然比平常有了更多的限制。
• Nature's symphonic world was drowned by man's industrial cacophony.
  大自然的和声世界被人类的工业噪音淹没了。
• 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。
• Heard a cacophony of horns during the traffic jam.
  交通阻塞时，听到一片不和谐的喇叭声。