The band's sound is adistinctivemixtureoffunkandrap.这支乐队结合了乡土爵士乐和说唱乐的音乐风格，很有特色。
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Pavlovconditioneddogstosalivateat the sound of abell.
Thestrangesound made hisbloodcurdle.
The sound of thedoorclosingdeceivedme intothinkingthey had gone out.
The sound of hisfootstepsgraduallydiedaway.
She couldhearthedistantsound offireworksexploding.
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Sound & its properties
acoustically
anechoic
anti-noise
aurally
diapason
echo
echo chamber
high def
high definition
monaural
monaurally
mono
quadraphonic
reverberate
silken
sonic
sonority
soundproof
thunder
trill
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Recording sounds and images
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soundnoun(SEEM)
the sound ofsomethingC2[S]
how somethingseemsto be, from what is said or written:
…给人的印象（或感觉）；…的言外之意
I like the sound of thebeefinredwinesauce.我喜欢牛肉浇红酒汁的感觉。
By/Fromthe sound ofitI don'tthinkit was herfault.听上去我认为不是她的错。
I'm going to betalkingto over 90people? I don't like the sound of that!我要和90多个人谈话，是吗？我可不喜欢那样！
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Defining & explaining
account (tosomeone) forsomething
accountability
adduce
adumbration
annotation
annotator
demystify
demythologize
explicable
explicate
expound
lay
misdescribe
miswrite
nail
nailsomeonedown
non-defining
non-descriptive
outline
trace
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soundnoun(WATER PASSAGE)
[C]
apassageofseaconnectingtwolargerareasofsea, or anareaofseamostlysurroundedbyland:
海湾，海峡
the Kalmar Sound卡尔马海峡
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Bays & gulfs
arm
basin
bay
channel
cove
gulf
Hudson Bay
inlet
lagoon
narrows
sea coast
strait
the Bay of Bengal
the Bay of Fundy
the Gulf of Mexico
the Persian Gulf
Grammar
Soundornoise?
Sound and noise are nouns. We can use them both as countable or uncountable nouns. Both refer to something which you can hear, but when a sound is unwanted or unpleasant, we call it a noise:…
sound
verb
uk/saʊnd/us/saʊnd/
soundverb(SEEM)
sound good, interesting, strange, etc.
A2
toseemgood,interesting,strange, etc. from what is said or written:
听起来不错／听上去有意思／似乎很奇怪（等等）
Yourjobsounds reallyinteresting.你的工作听起来真有趣。
Iknowitsoundssilly, but I'llmisshim when he's gone.我知道这听起来很傻，但他走了我会想他的。
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Withoutwishingto soundconceited, I am thebestsalespersonin thecompany.
They don't soundconfidentabout thefutureof theindustry.
Thedepthof hisvoicemakes him soundolderthan he is.
Theirideassoundfineinprinciplebut they haven'tworkedout theeconomicsbehind thepolicies.
Hisexcusesounded abitcontrived.
sound like/as if/as though
B1
toseemlike something, from what is said or written:
听起来像／似乎
That sounds like a goodidea.那听起来像是个不错的主意。
Itsounds like you've got asorethroat.你听上去好像喉咙有些发炎。
Itsounds as if they had a goodholiday.听起来他们似乎度过了一个愉快的假期。
You're goingskiingwith threefriends? That sounds likefun.你要和3个朋友去滑雪？听起来很好玩。
sound angry, happy, rude, etc.
B2
toseemangry,happy,rude, etc. when youspeak:
听起来很生气／高兴／无礼（等等）
He sounded verydepressedwhen wespokeon thephoneyesterday.我们昨天通电话的时候，他听上去很沮丧。
At thepressconference, he sounded at his mostrelaxed.新闻发布会上，他听起来十分轻松。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Seeming and purporting to be
apparent
appear
appearance
as if/thoughidiom
by the look(s) of thingsidiom
come across
come off
outward
outwardly
parallax
pass
pass for sb/sth
persona
seemingly
semblance
so-called
superficial
superficiality
superficially
surface
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soundverb(NOISE)
[IorT]
to make anoise:
（使）发声；（使）作响
If thealarmsounds,leavethebuildingimmediately.如果警报声响起，马上离开大楼。
It soundslikeabird.听起来像一只鸟。
He sounds(=speaks)justlikesomeone I used toworkwith.他说话很像我以前的一个同事。
Sounding the car'shorn, shedroveat highspeedthrough thecrowdedstreets.她按响汽车喇叭，猛踩油门，飞速穿过熙熙攘攘的大街。
sound the alarm
tocauseanoiseto be made or say orshoutamessagetowarnpeopleabout something:
The band's sound is adistinctivemixtureoffunkandrap.这支乐队结合了乡土爵士乐和说唱乐的音乐风格，很有特色。
More examples
Pavlovconditioneddogstosalivateat the sound of abell.
Thestrangesound made hisbloodcurdle.
The sound of thedoorclosingdeceivedme intothinkingthey had gone out.
The sound of hisfootstepsgraduallydiedaway.
She couldhearthedistantsound offireworksexploding.
soundnoun(SEEM)
the sound ofsthC2[S]
how somethingseemsto be, from what is said or written
…给人的印象（或感觉）；…的言外之意
I like the sound of thebeefinredwinesauce.我喜欢牛肉浇红酒汁的感觉。
By/Fromthe sound ofitI don'tthinkit was herfault.听上去我认为不是她的错。
I'm going to betalkingto over 90people? I don't like the sound of that!我要和90多个人谈话，是吗？我可不喜欢那样！
soundnoun(WATER PASSAGE)
[C]
apassageofseaconnectingtwolargerareasofsea, or anareaofseamostlysurroundedbyland
海湾，海峡
the Kalmar Sound卡尔马海峡
Grammar
Soundornoise?
Sound and noise are nouns. We can use them both as countable or uncountable nouns. Both refer to something which you can hear, but when a sound is unwanted or unpleasant, we call it a noise:…
sound
verb
uk/saʊnd/us/saʊnd/
soundverb(SEEM)
sound good, interesting, strange, etc.
A2
toseemgood,interesting,strange, etc. from what is said or written
听起来不错／听上去有意思／似乎很奇怪（等等）
Yourjobsounds reallyinteresting.你的工作听起来真有趣。
Iknowitsoundssilly, but I'llmisshim when he's gone.我知道这听起来很傻，但他走了我会想他的。
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Withoutwishingto soundconceited, I am thebestsalespersonin thecompany.
They don't soundconfidentabout thefutureof theindustry.
Thedepthof hisvoicemakes him soundolderthan he is.
Theirideassoundfineinprinciplebut they haven'tworkedout theeconomicsbehind thepolicies.
Hisexcusesounded abitcontrived.
sound like/as if/as though
B1
toseemlike something, from what is said or written
听起来像／似乎
That sounds like a goodidea.那听起来像是个不错的主意。
Itsounds like you've got asorethroat.你听上去好像喉咙有些发炎。
Itsounds as if they had a goodholiday.听起来他们似乎度过了一个愉快的假期。
You're goingskiingwith threefriends? That sounds likefun.你要和3个朋友去滑雪？听起来很好玩。
sound angry, happy, rude, etc.
B2
toseemangry,happy,rude, etc. when youspeak
听起来很生气／高兴／无礼（等等）
He sounded verydepressedwhen wespokeon thephoneyesterday.我们昨天通电话的时候，他听上去很沮丧。
At thepressconference, he sounded at his mostrelaxed.新闻发布会上，他听起来十分轻松。
soundverb(NOISE)
[IorT]
to make anoise
（使）发声；（使）作响
If thealarmsounds,leavethebuildingimmediately.如果警报声响起，马上离开大楼。
It soundslikeabird.听起来像一只鸟。
He sounds(=speaks)justlikesomeone I used toworkwith.他说话很像我以前的一个同事。
Sounding the car'shorn, shedroveat highspeedthrough thecrowdedstreets.她按响汽车喇叭，猛踩油门，飞速穿过熙熙攘攘的大街。
sound the alarm
tocauseanoiseto be made or say orshoutamessagetowarnpeopleabout something
Thus, this term represents thesoundgeneration due purely to the dynamics of the vortex centroids.
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That is, there is a commonality of effect consistent with this region's role in the integration ofsoundand meaning.
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The starting point for each part is either a random or a previously storedsound.
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Some demonstrated the use of technical language, for example 'it didsoundvery like a scale'.
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They were then told to put the sounds together to say the whole word.
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This is a new synthesis technique that can generate sounds from slow movements of mechanical systems.
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Further, there is nosoundtheoretical basis for the two heuristics that it uses.
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In practice, pupils found the process of selecting sounds relatively straightforward and unproblematic.
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Participants were tested and trained in small groups in asound-attenuated room.
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The volume ofsound, though not to any extent distorted, had suffered a diminution of perspective.
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Further, those sounds that were excluded from a child's phonemic inventory formed the pool of potential targets to be considered for treatment.
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Everyone is dependent on everyone else to producesoundresulting in a truly collaborative situation.
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He also found that children, unlike adults, makesounderrors in the high frequency functional elements.
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Two types of voice-specific system are discussed here, both of which were developed for reasons other thansoundmanipulation.
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As this feature is often distinctive in consonants, it should be able to create ' cross-category ' feature-economy effects among all these various types of sounds.
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Collocationswithsound
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ambient sound
The visual representation of a heat wave is accompanied by a change in theambientsoundemitters.
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analogue sound
He disentangles two distinct routes: that of the recording studio, and that of the analogue sound.
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beeping sound
He then wakes up in his own bed; the beeping sound was his own alarm clock.
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