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unison

/yoo-nuh-suhn, -zuhn/US // ˈyu nə sən, -zən //UK // (ˈjuːnɪsən, -zən) //

同声传译,同声,同音,异口同声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : coincidence in pitch of two or more musical tones, voices, etc.
    • : the musical interval of a perfect prime.
    • : the performance of musical parts at the same pitch or at the octave.
    • : a sounding together in octaves, especially of male and female voices or of higher and lower instruments of the same class.
    • : a process in which all elements behave in the same way at the same time; simultaneous or synchronous parallel action: to march in unison.

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Examples

  • It could be neutron star mergers, together with magnetorotational supernovae, could in unison explain how all the heavy elements in the Milky Way were created.

  • Swirling in unison, they’d form a writhing circle more than 100 strong.

  • Blanchette and his team’s model made clear that the birds do not move in unison.

  • She found a way to make little kitten steps to the microphone in unison with the music.

  • In a half-circle around a blazing campfire, the women shake rattles in creepy unison.

  • Billed by the curators as a “dialogue,” the show is ultimately more like two voices communing in completely matched unison.

  • Pointing to the elevator bank, they say in unison, "Eleventh floor."

  • We sobbed in unison when Meryl Streep could barely talk about her husband without becoming visibly verklempt and touched.

  • Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.

  • The natural result was that anything further than unison coupling was seldom attempted.

  • The twain immediately started, and roared in unison with their host most tremendously!

  • “Out of sight,” comes the general verdict from the crowd, and bang go a dozen beer glasses in unison on the heavy table.

  • The deep, dull murmurings of the multitude swelled in unison with the sighings of the storm rising upon the somber night.