英语词汇stentorian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

stentorian. Under freak acoustical conditions the human voice has carried over 10 miles across water, but its average range is about 200 yards in still air. Stentor, Homer’s Grecian herald of the Trojan War, who may have been based on some top sergeant of old, probably had a range far exceeding this. In the Iliad Homer tells how the herald faced the enemy to dictate terms in “a voice of bronze . . . as loud as 50 men together.” Greek legend claims that Stentor finally met his match in Hermes, herald of the Gods, dying as the result of a vocal con- test with him. But his name lived on as the Greek for loud- voiced and gave us the English word stentorian, “extremely loud.” A howling monkey, a trumpet-shaped protozoan, and an electric magnifying speaker called the stentorphone also do him homage. See hector; nestor.

词汇	stentorian
词源	stentorian. Under freak acoustical conditions the human voice has carried over 10 miles across water, but its average range is about 200 yards in still air. Stentor, Homer’s Grecian herald of the Trojan War, who may have been based on some top sergeant of old, probably had a range far exceeding this. In the Iliad Homer tells how the herald faced the enemy to dictate terms in “a voice of bronze . . . as loud as 50 men together.” Greek legend claims that Stentor finally met his match in Hermes, herald of the Gods, dying as the result of a vocal con- test with him. But his name lived on as the Greek for loud- voiced and gave us the English word stentorian, “extremely loud.” A howling monkey, a trumpet-shaped protozoan, and an electric magnifying speaker called the stentorphone also do him homage. See hector; nestor.
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