What you'll also notice is that I throw in sound effects.

你还会发现我用了一些拟声词。

Other examples of onomatopoeia are sizzle - a hissing sound, and gurgle – the low pleasant sound a liquid makes when it flows quickly through a narrow space.

拟声词的其他例还有“sizzle”——一种嘶嘶的声音，还有“gurgle”——液体狭窄的空间中快速流动时发出的低沉悦耳之声。

And the boom and the board was somewhat sonic.

boom 和 board 两个词都有点拟声词的感觉。

For you language lovers, that's called onomatopoeia.

对于语言爱好者来说，拟声词。

Well before Shakespeare, the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, famous for his Canterbury Tales, wanted to describe the light, tremulous call an encaged bird makes as it yearns for freedom, and came up with the onomatopoeia " twitter."

早莎士比亚之前，英国诗人杰弗里·叟，他因《坎特伯雷故事集》而闻名于世，他想描述那种，被关里的鸟儿渴望自由时发出的颤抖的，轻巧的声，于是拟声词“叽叽喳喳”便应运而生。

Well, it turns out there's a scientific term for the sound your stomach makes, borborygmi, which is a Greek word that's an onomatopoeia, meaning the word is supposed to sound like the noise it's describing.

事实证明，你的胃部发出的声音有一个科学术语，那就是 borborygmi，是一个希腊语拟声词，拟声词的意思是个词应该听起来和它所描述的噪音相似。

Right, OK. There are lots of examples of onomatopoeia in the English language, and we'll take a look at some of them on today's show.

好了。英语中有很多拟声词的例，我们将今天的节目中学到其中的一些。

Since Ancient Greece, we've been trying to figure out why people feel that some words just sound like the thing they refer to that is, why onomatopoeias exist.

从古希腊开始，我们就一直试图弄清楚为什么人们觉得有些词听起来像他们所指的东西，那就是为什么有拟声词存。

It's a sort of 'sound symbolic' word - mwah - it's a lovely way of expressing the actual noise that takes place when you do a phony kiss of this kind.

从根本上说有点像拟声词——mwah——挺有趣的，我们可以不用真正的接吻但是却可以表达出吻的意思。

Yeah, and 'snap' is one of these words that sounds like what it represents — that's an onomatopoeia, and it's a very quick sound.

是的，“snap”就是样一个词，听起来就像它所代表的意思——是拟声词，是非常快速的声音。

And our subject today is onomatopoeia — words that sound like the thing they describe.

我们今天的主题是拟声词——听起来像它们所描述的东西的词。

Many languages have their own unique noises or representations for snoring aside from Zzz as well.

许多语言除了 Zzz 之外，还有自己独特的打鼾拟声词或表现方式。

Yes, you can stop now. Thank you very much. How about another quick example of onomatopoeia. A click. Listen again. Click.

是的，你现可以停下了。非常感谢。再说个拟声词如何？单击。再听一遍。单击。

Onomatopoeia is a case in point and so is sign language, which makes frequent use of gestures that resemble their referents, like tracing the tracks of tears as a symbol for crying.

拟声词就是一个很好的例，手语也是如此，它经常使用与所指相似的手势，比如追踪眼泪的轨迹作为哭泣的象征。

The Japanese, meanwhile, use characters that sound like guu-guu, and in Mandarin it's akin to hu-lu.

与此同时，日语使用类似“guu-guu”的拟声词，而普通话中则是“呼噜”。

Yes, it does. Gargle is a great word because it's an example of what we call onomatopoeia – a word which sounds like its meaning.

是的，的确如此。漱口个词很好，就是我们所说的“拟声词”——单词的发音与其意思一样。

Onomatopoeia is when words sound like what they mean, for example 'boom', 'whack' and 'moo'.

拟声词是指单词的发音听起来像它们的意思，例如“boom”、“whack”和“moo”。

Our subject for today is onomatopoeia. That means, words that sound like the thing they mean.

本期我们要学的是拟声词，听起来像它们所表达的意思的单词。

That's it Rob, yeah. That's onomatopoeia: the word sounds like the thing it means. Beep!

就是样，罗布。就是拟声词：个词听起来就像它的意思。哔哔的声音！

Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like what it means, words like 'buzz', 'zoom' and 'whack'.

拟声词是指一个单词的发音与它的意思相像，如‘buzz’，‘zoom’和‘whack’。