monotone

noun

1. an unchanging intonation

Synonym: dronedroning

2. a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

adj

1. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

e.g. the owl's faint monotonous hooting

Synonym: flatmonotonicmonotonous

2. of a sequence or function
consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

Synonym: monotonic

1. 单调的语调；一成不变的声音
If someone speaks in a monotone, their voice does not vary at all in tone or loudness and so it is not interesting to listen to.

e.g. The evidence was read out to the court in a dull monotone.
证据被当庭呆板地宣读了一遍。

2. (声音或外表)单调的，无变化的
A monotone sound or surface does not have any variation in its tone or colour.

e.g. He was seen on TV delivering platitudes about the crisis in a monotone voice.
人们看到他在电视上念经似地就危机问题老调重弹。

1. 单调：在数学中在有序集合之间的函数是单调(monotone)的,如果它们保持给定的次序. 这些函数最先出现在微积分中后来推广到序理论中更加抽象结构中. 尽管概念一般是一致的,两个学科已经发展出稍微不同的术语. 在微积分中,

2. 单音调：与指挥者、司琴者有密切联络,关怀圣歌队的工作,并且自己更应看重会众唱诗的部分. 也许可以说,教会礼拜音乐的水平之提高端赖牧师(传教者)在教会生活中对音乐重要性与地位的推崇. 11、单音调(monotone)是指平音,或音调无变化,近于「音病」之意.

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3. 单调的：monotheistic 一神论的 | monotone 单调的 | monotonous 单调的