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ventriloquial

/ven-truh-loh-kwee-uhl/US // ˌvɛn trəˈloʊ kwi əl //

腹语,腹语式,腹语的,腹语式的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.

Examples

  • Probably his ventriloquial powers are cultivated not for popular entertainment, but to lure intruders away from his nest.

  • Song, loud, ringing and ventriloquial; suggesting that of Indigo Bunting but shorter.

  • One Louis Brabant turned his ventriloquial talent to profitable account.

  • As it thus flies it utters a succession of the hollow, booming notes, which have a strange ventriloquial quality.

  • Thus the simplest cause of ventriloquial effect is produced by standing with your back to the audience and your face to the door.