twang
twang 英 [twæŋ] 美 [twæŋ]
n. 鼻音；弦声；砰然一声 vi. 发拨弦声；带鼻音讲话；砰然一声响 vt. 用鼻音讲；使发拨弦声
进行时:twanging 过去式:twanged 过去分词:twanged 第三人称单数:twangs 名词复数:twangs
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- n. 鼻音；弦声；砰然一声
- vi. 发拨弦声；带鼻音讲话；砰然一声响
- vt. 用鼻音讲；使发拨弦声
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1. Humans probably do something similar when we're focusing on a guy with a nasal twang on the other side of the guacamole dip.
这大概就像是人们在专注于听餐桌对面的那个鼻音很重的人说话时的反应。
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2. "I've referred to myself as the secretary of war, because we're at war," he says in a nasal Kansas twang, raising his voice over the roar of the plane's engines.
“我把自己当作战争部长，因为我们现在处于战争状态之中，”他在飞机引擎的轰鸣声中提高音量，说话带有堪萨斯州口音，鼻音很重。
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3. Indeed, so wary did we become that the twang of the Tambura, from a distance, scared us away and utterly failed to bag us.
确实，我们变得异常警觉，远远听到冬不拉的琴弦声，就把我们给吓跑了，根本不可能把我们装进猎袋里去。
- twang (n.) 1550s, of imitative origin. Originally the sound of plucked bows and strings; extension to "a nasal vocal sound" is first recorded 1660s. The verb is first attested 1540s. Related: Twanged; twanging.
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