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

你还会发现我用了一些拟词。

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.

拟词其他例子还有“sizzle”——一种嘶嘶音，还有“gurgle”——液体在狭窄空间中快速流动时发出低沉悦耳之。

And the boom and the board was somewhat sonic.

boom 和 board 两个词都有点拟词感觉。

For you language lovers, that's called onomatopoeia.

对于语言爱好者来说，叫做拟词。

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."

早在莎士比亚之前，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，被关在笼子里鸟儿渴望自由时发出颤抖，轻巧叫，于拟词“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，你胃部发出音有一个科学术语，那就 borborygmi，一个希腊语拟词，拟词意个词应该听起来和它所描述噪音相似。

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。英语中有很多拟词例子，我们将在今天节目中学到其中一些。

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东西，那就为什么有拟词存在。

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词——mwah——挺有趣，我们可以不用真正接吻但却可以表达出吻意。

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.

，“snap”就样一个词，听起来就像它所代表意——拟词，非常快速音。

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

我们今天主题拟词——听起来像它们所描述东西词。

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，还有自己独特打鼾拟词或表现方式。

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

，你现在可以停下了。非常感谢。再说个拟词如何？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.

拟词就一个很好例子，手语也如此，它经常使用与所指相似手势，比如追踪眼泪轨迹作为哭泣象征。

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”拟词，而普通话中则“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.

，确如此。漱口个词很好，就我们所说“拟词”——单词发音与其意一样。

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

拟词指单词发音听起来像它们意，例如“boom”、“whack”和“moo”。

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

本期我们要学拟词，听起来像它们所表达意单词。

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

就样，罗布。就拟词：个词听起来就像它意。哔哔音！

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

拟词指一个单词发音与它意相像，如‘buzz’，‘zoom’和‘whack’。