ventriloquial
形容词 adj.
英 /vɛntɹɪˈləʊkwɪəl/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to ventriloquy.
— Her voice came, muffled, as if from the back of the top of his head. The ventriloquial effect was startling.
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Spoken to oneself.
— He threw half-crowns up into the air until they disappeared into the central blue, and then held a ventriloquial conversation, not in the best of taste, with the celestial spirits, who having caught the coins announced their intention of sticking to them.
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Of bird vocalisations, sounding as though emanating from a location other than where the vocalising bird is.
— We tried this a couple of times with no luck whatsoever, partly because whipbirds are notoriously ventriloquial and we could never agree on where the call was coming from.
词源
From ventriloquy + -al.
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