ALRRto say something slowly and clearly without making your voicerise and fall much as you speak 平稳清晰地说
The priest intoned the blessing.
神父庄重地念了祷文。
Examples from the Corpus
intone• With each drop the name of the plague is intoned.• Even when the clergymanappeared from the vestry and began the service, the prayers he intoned brought me no help.• Loudly he intoned some shortLatin prayer, then crossed himself again and turned.• That same year Iggy Popintoned the chorus to her feministballad Daw da Hiya.• When I had studied it, very slowly, I used to intone the melody with which I had once studied Gemara.• Uncle Danny intoned the prayer in Hebrew.• The priestintoned the prayers in a nervous voice, pulling at his beard.
Originintone
(1300-1400)Old Frenchentoner, from Medieval Latinintonare, from Latintonus; → TONE1