英语词汇croon的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

croon. A popular singer who croons doesn’t need much vo- cal equipment; he or she sings softly, sadly, uses the voice as lit- tle as possible. So croon has come to mean “to sing in a melan- choly way,” a meaning far removed from its original one. Croon first meant “to utter a continued, loud, deep sound; to bellow as a bull, roar; to boom as a bell.” Bulls crooned to the hills in old poems by Burns and other poets, and crooning was associated with hearty, virile singers. It was only by misuse through the years that the word changed in meaning from a roar to a lam- entation and then to the singing we call crooning today, which approaches the bellowing of a bull only when the amplifiers are turned way up.

词汇	croon
词源	croon. A popular singer who croons doesn’t need much vo- cal equipment; he or she sings softly, sadly, uses the voice as lit- tle as possible. So croon has come to mean “to sing in a melan- choly way,” a meaning far removed from its original one. Croon first meant “to utter a continued, loud, deep sound; to bellow as a bull, roar; to boom as a bell.” Bulls crooned to the hills in old poems by Burns and other poets, and crooning was associated with hearty, virile singers. It was only by misuse through the years that the word changed in meaning from a roar to a lam- entation and then to the singing we call crooning today, which approaches the bellowing of a bull only when the amplifiers are turned way up.
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