voiceless
英 [ˈvɔɪsləs] 美 [ˈvɔɪslɪs]

adj.

无声的；沉默的；不悦耳的；清音的

英英释义

voiceless[ 'vɔislis ]

• adj.
  • produced without vibration of the vocal cords

    同义词：unvoicedsurdhard

  • deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote

    "labor was voiceless"

    同义词：disenfranchiseddisfranchisedvoteless

  • uttered without voice

    "voiceless whispers"

    同义词：breathed

  • being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech

    同义词：aphonic

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. The old castle was dark and voiceless.
   这座古堡是黑暗和寂静无声的。

权威例句

On the Properties of Voiceless Fricative Consonants
A cross-linguistic acoustic study of voiceless fricatives
Perception of voiceless fricatives by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired children and adults.
Speech coding in the auditory nerve: III. Voiceless fricative consonants
Closure duration and intervocalic voiced-voiceless distinction in English.
Statistical analysis of word‐initial voiceless obstruents: Preliminary data
Vowel-length differences before voiced and voiceless consonants: An auditory explanation.
Some Cues for the Distinction between Voiced and Voiceless Stops in Initial Position
Generalization of the generation of an MMN by illusory McGurk percepts: voiceless consonants
Contrast and covert contrast: The phonetic development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English and Japanese toddlers