monotone
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈmɒn.ə.təʊn/
美 /ˈmɑ.nə.toʊn/|/ˈmɔn.ə.təʉn/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.
— When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.
- A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
动词 v.
- To speak in a monotone.
形容词 adj.
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Having a single unvaried pitch.
— The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
— The function f(x)#58;#61;x³ is monotone on #92;R, while g(x)#58;#61;x² is not.
- Synonym of monochrome.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.
词源 2
From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.
词源 3
From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.
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