詞彙精選：whisper的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
低語，耳語，私語
例句：
He told me in a whisper so that none else could hear.
他低聲告訴我，以免別人聽到。
例句：
I in a whisper told them what I had seen.
我低聲告訴他們我所看到的情況。
傳聞，謠傳
例句：
I've heard a whisper that he has cancer.
我聽到他得了癌症的傳聞。
例句：
The whisper about her marriage is widespread.
有關她婚姻的傳聞流傳很廣。
颯颯聲
例句：
They heard the whisper of leaves.
他們聽見了樹葉的低語。
例句：
Only the whisper of the surf and breeze interrupts the blissful stillness.
唯有海浪和微風的幾聲耳語不時打斷着這美好的寧靜。
v.
低聲說，悄悄說，耳語，私語 [I,T]
例句：
Fatso leaned over to whisper in her ear.
胖子欠身對她耳語幾句。
例句：
What a yap he be, he do not know how to whisper.
他真是個粗漢，他不會小聲地說話。
私下談論；謠傳 [I,T]
例句：
If I whisper you my secret will you promise not to tell?
我若把我的祕密悄悄告訴你，你能不能保證不泄露出去？
例句：
What happened in the factory is being whispered about the neighborhood.
工廠裏發生的事正在附近居民中私下傳說。
沙沙（或颯颯）作響 [I]
例句：
Overhead the slender coconut palms whisper their drowsy song.
樹影婆娑的椰林低聲吟唱着催眠曲。
例句：
The car's tires whispered through the puddles.
穿過水坑時汽車的輪胎髮出嗚嗚聲。
二、詞義辨析：
murmur,mutter,whisper
這些動詞均有“低語”之意。murmur通常指人、微風或小溪等的低沉、柔和或連續的聲音。mutter多指別人不易聽到的低語。whisper通常指耳語、竊竊私語。
三、相關短語：
stage whisper
旁白,故意讓別人聽見的耳語
四、參考例句：
She spoke in a husky whisper.
她低沉沙啞地輕聲說話。
His voice died away in a whisper.
他的聲音漸漸變爲了小聲低語。
They heard the whisper of leaves.
他們聽見了樹葉的低語。
The whisper about her marriage is widespread.
有關她婚姻的傳聞流傳很廣。
Lower one's voice to a whisper
把聲音降到耳語那麼低。
Fatso leaned over to whisper in her ear.
胖子欠身對她耳語幾句。
Hardly a whisper of concern has been voiced.
沒有人表示過一點點的關心。
Did she whisper in your ear at the meeting?
開會時，她跟你私下交談了嗎？
But in my mind I whisper every single word you.
但在我心裏，我低聲念着每個你曾說過的詞語。
Overhead the slender coconut palms whisper their drowsy song.
樹影婆娑的椰林低聲吟唱着催眠曲。
