timbre
timbre 英 [ˈtæmbə(r)] 美 [ˈtæmbɚ, ˈtɪm-]
n. [声] 音色；音质；音品
名词复数:timbres
- Timbre is a word that describes the tone or unique quality of a sound. If you play the same note on a piano and on a guitar, each note will have its own timbre.
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- n. [声] 音色；音质；音品
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1. Individual animals also have different timbre and use different patterns of emphasis.
动物个体也有着不同的音色，轻重缓急的方式也有所不同。
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2. His voice was described as bass and stately, though it was often light and fast, gaining authority from the clipped fall of the sentences rather than the timbre.
他的声音被形容为庄重而低沉，尽管常常也会很轻快，而对他声音的认可来自于他每句话都十分清晰的发音，而并非他的音色。
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3. Nor was it the timbre of his voice, deep and yet not particularly resonant, its Australian inflection so slight as to be almost British.
当然这种认同感也不只是源于他的音质——一种深沉但不浑厚的声音，其中澳洲口音的抑扬顿挫很不明显，几乎快变成英国口音了。
- timbre (n.) "characteristic quality of a musical sound," 1849, from French timbre "quality of a sound," earlier "sound of a bell," from Old French, "bell without a clapper," originally "small drum," probably via Medieval Greek *timbanon, from Greek tympanon "kettledrum" (see tympanum). Timbre was used in Old French (13c.) and Middle English (14c.) to render Latin tympanum in Psalms cl.
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