megaphone

• n. 扩音器，喇叭筒
• vt. 用扩音器对…讲话
• vi. 用扩音器传达

megalo-,巨大的，-phone,声音，词源同phone,fame.用于指扩音器。

megaphone (n.)

1878, coined (perhaps by Thomas Edison, who invented it) from Greek megas "great" (see mega-) + phone "voice" (see fame (n.)). Related: Megaphonic. In Greek, megalophonia meant "grandiloquence," megalophonos "loud-voiced."

1. A megaphone boomed out, "This is the police."

扩音器响了起来：“我们是警察。”

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2. Making monetary policy by megaphone never leads to good results.

夸夸其谈的货币政策决不会取得效果.

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3. He hawks with a megaphone, saving a lot of effort.

他用喇叭筒叫卖, 省劲多了!

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4. Somewhere a voice is loud a megaphone.

远处什么地方的扩音器里传来响亮的声音.

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5. He often speaks in public with a megaphone.

他常用扩音器当着大众演说.

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