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a sound, especially when it is loud, unpleasant or frightening 声音；响声；噪音；吵闹声 There was a rattling noise coming from the back of the car. 汽车尾部传来咔嗒咔嗒的声音。 What's that noise? 哪来的响声？ I heard a loud noise and turned around. 我听到一声巨响，转过身来。 Don't make a noise. 别出声。 They were making too much noise. 他们太吵了。 I was woken by the noise of a car starting up. 我被汽车的启动声吵醒了。 There was constant background noise from the motorway. 高速公路的噪音一直不断。 Measures are needed to reduce noise levels. 需要采取措施降低噪音水平。 - above the noise
We had to shout above the noise of the traffic. 车辆噪声太大，我们不得不扯着嗓子说话。
Which Word? noise / soundnoise / soundsee also white noise- Noise is usually loud and unpleasant. It can be countable or uncountable:
noise 通常指噪音，既可作可数名词，也可作不可数名词： Try not to make so much noise. 别那么吵吵闹闹的。 What a terrible noise! 多么令人讨厌的噪音啊！
- Sound is a countable noun and means something that you hear:
sound 为可数名词，意为听到的声音或响声： All she could hear was the sound of the waves. 她听得到的只有海浪声。
Extra ExamplesShe was making a lot of noise. 她在制造大量噪声。 The deafening noise of the machine died away to a rumble. 震耳欲聋的机器声逐渐变成了低沉的隆隆声。 The slightest noise will wake him. 一丁点儿动静也会吵醒他。 There were strange noises coming from the kitchen. 厨房里传来奇怪的噪声。 We could hear funny little sucking noises. 我们可以听到奇怪的轻轻吮吸的声音。 Wood is used to deaden the noise. 木头可以用来消音。 the noise created by aircraft 飞机产生的噪声 the noise from the engine room 机房传出的噪声 Don't make so much noise. 别这么吵闹。 She uses the ambient noise of the water to keep the audience uneasy. 她利用水的环境噪音来让观众保持不安。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deafening
- loud
- awful
- …
- create
- emit
- generate
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- come from something
- become louder
- get louder
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- level
- pollution
- reduction
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- above the noise
- over the noise
- noise from
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- [uncountable] (specialist)
extra electrical or electronic signals that are not part of the signal that is being broadcast or transmitted and which may damage it 噪声；干扰；电子干扰信号 Place the devices as close as possible to the sensors to reduce noise in the signal. 将设备放置在尽可能靠近传感器的地方，以降低信号中的噪声。
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information that is not wanted and that can make it difficult for the important or useful information to be seen clearly 干扰信息；垃圾信息
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘quarrelling’): from Old French, from Latin nausea ‘seasickness’, from Greek nausia, from naus ‘ship’.
Idioms
a big noise/shot/name
an important person 大人物；要人
make a noise (about something)
- (informal)
to complain loudly 大声诉苦；大声抱怨 I will continue to make as much noise as I can to support the scheme. 我将继续尽可能多地制造噪音来支持这个计划。
make noises (about something) (informal)
make soothing, encouraging, reassuring, etc. noises