echoing

/ˈek.əʊ/ (bre, ipa) · [ˈɛkoɪŋ] /ˈek.oʊ/ (ame, ipa) · [ˈɛkoɪŋ] /ˈe-(ˌ)kō How to pronounce echo (audio)/ (ame, mw)

echoing — verb

  • echoingpresent simple I / you / we / they
  • echoings3rd person singular
  • echoinging-ing form
  • echoingedpast simple

1. to send a noise back from walls or other hard surfaces, or to be filled with tha

1.動詞不及物C1
釋義

to send a noise back from walls or other hard surfaces, or to be filled with that returning sound.

例句

Felipe heard his whistle echoing across the empty bus depot.

echoing across + large empty place

The stone tunnel was echoing with Roya's laugh after the joke.

echoing with + sound

同義詞
  • reverberate

    more technical and more common in formal writing about sound

  • resound

    often suggests a place ringing loudly with a sound

反義詞
  • fall silent

    the sound stops instead of continuing around the space

文法句型

echoing with + sound

echoing through + place

用法筆記

Usually describes repeated sound in a tunnel, hall, cave, or stairwell. It often appears with the sound itself or with a phrase showing the place the sound moves through.

常見錯誤

❌The hall was echoing of music.
✅The hall was echoing with music.
💡use 'with' for the sound filling a place.

2. to repeat features of an earlier idea, style, or feeling so that people are remi

2.動詞及物C1
釋義

to repeat features of an earlier idea, style, or feeling so that people are reminded of it.

例句

The mayor's speech was echoing complaints heard at the market meeting.

echo + complaints or views already expressed

Amelia's new poster is echoing the colours of last year's campaign.

echo + style or design feature

同義詞
  • evoke

    focuses on bringing a memory or feeling to mind, even without visible similarity

  • mirror

    suggests a closer match in shape or behaviour than echoing usually does

  • recall

    often used when something makes you think of an earlier thing

反義詞
  • depart from

    move away from an earlier model instead of resembling it

文法句型

echo + idea/style/feeling

echo + what someone said

用法筆記

The direct object is usually an earlier style, remark, event, or feeling. It points to partial resemblance rather than exact copying.

常見錯誤

❌The plan is echoing to old rules.
✅The plan is echoing old rules.
💡this sense takes a direct object, not 'to'.