1[countableC, uncountableU]SL the way in which the level of your voice changes in order to add meaning to what you are saying, for example by going up at the end of a question 语调
intonation• They speak courteously, but in a strangely mechanical way, with a flatintonation.• As usual in intonation work in this book, punctuation is left out, since it can cause confusion.• The technique of back chaining may be referred to in the teaching of intonation.• And with a faintly questioning intonation that fitzAlan would have to be deaf to miss.• For example Practice the intonation of the modelexchange.• This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard because it varies the intonation and doesn't speak like a Dalek.• There is more diceywoodwindintonation in the Eroica, and the oboetone in the FuneralMarchcurdles alarmingly.
ADJECTIVE | INTONATION + NOUNADJECTIVE➤falling, flat, rising降調;平調;升調◇the rising intonation at the end of spoken questions口語中問句末尾使用的升調INTONATION + NOUN➤pattern語調模式