echo

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1 [intransitiveI]CSOUND if a sound echoes, you hear it again because it was made near something such as a wall or hill 〔聲音〕回響，發出回聲

The sound of an engine echoed back from the thick forest.

從茂密的森林裏傳來引擎的回聲。

echo through/round

He could hear eerie noises echoing through the corridors.

他聽見恐怖的聲響在走廊裏回蕩。

2 [intransitiveI]REPEAT if a place echoes, it is filled with sounds that are repeated or are similar to each other 〔場所〕充滿回聲

echo with

The house echoed with the sound of children’s voices.

屋子裏回蕩着孩子們的說話聲。

3 [transitiveT] literaryREPEAT to repeat what someone else has just said 重複〔别人的話〕

‘You bet, ’ she said, echoing his words.

“當然啦。她重複着他的話。

4 [transitiveT]REPEAT to repeat an idea or opinion because you agree with it 附和〔别人的觀點〕

The article simply echoed the NRA’s arguments against gun control.

這篇文章只是附和了全國步槍協會反對槍支管制的觀點。

Examples from the Corpus

echo• Her designs were informed by vintage Halston, `Love Story' and the leisure suit, all echoing 1970s' style.• The room was vast and empty and every smallest noise we made echoed.• I heard footsteps echoing down the corridor.• These two seem to echo each other and they certainly go side by side.• But other poems echo earlier attitudes.• Many of us would echo her amazement from our own recent experience.• Shells-ells-ells echoes neatly down the steep canyon walls.• Thunder echoed over the mountains.• Type: This will echo the file information to screen.• Results of the study echo the findings of recent newspaper polls.• This new musical with its expensive costumes and scenery echoes the Hollywood glamour of the 1950s.• In some places the reddish undercoat of the frame shows through the gold moulding, echoing the reds in the picture.• Their voices echoed through the cave.• I could hear it echo through the house.• The thunder of the guns echoed throughout the valley.

echo through/round• By some freak of the acoustics his name seemed to echo round and round the chamber.• The song echoes through Mac Court, which, just a few minutes before game time, is almost empty.• He ran through the ferry-house, his steps echoing through the emptiness of the cavernous interior.• Suddenly there was a strange whooping cry above us, echoing through the forest.• I could hear it echo through the house.• Suddenly, Stairway to Paradise is echoing through the theatre and I am stepping into the spotlight sliding faster and faster.• Waves ignore frontiers and time-zones as they echo round the world.• They expressed their fury with the godly in lewd ballads that echo through Underdown's story.

echo2 noun (plural echoes) [countableC]

1 CSOUNDa sound that you hear again after a loud noise, because it was made near something such as a wall 回聲，回音

Her scream was followed by a loud echo.

她的尖叫聲過後是響亮的回聲。

2 LIKE/SIMILARsomething that is very similar to something that has happened or been said before 十分相似的東西，如出一轍的事物

echo of

The article contains echoes of an earlier report.

這篇文章與先前一篇報道如出一轍。

This idea finds an echo in many African countries.

這種觀念在許多非洲國家引起了共鳴。

Examples from the Corpus

echo• Chardin's paintings of people also find an echo in some of today's best figurative sculpture.• The reader's interpretation is complicated by echoes of poetic use, and appreciation of the development of a topos.• Captain Cook's third and last voyage was a dismal echo of the first two.• What she said in her letters to him is all lost except for echoes and resonances in his replies.• There was the sound of gunshot and then its echo in the mountains.• The Samaritans are the last echo that remain in the world of the ancient Israelite tradition.• On these tours you still can hear the echoes of resentment over items and fortunes lost in the Civil War.• The echo of the bells rang through the town.

echo of• The uprising was an echo of the student protests in the '60s.

Origin echo2

(1300-1400) Old French Greek

Chinese

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