Professor Spence uses onomatopoeia to describe some sounds.

斯宾塞教授用拟声词描述一些声音。

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

你会发现我用了一些拟声词。

For you language lovers, that's called onomatopoeia.

对于语言爱好，这叫做拟声词。

And the boom and the board was somewhat sonic.

boom 和 board 这两个词都有点拟声词的感觉。

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

本期我要学的是拟声词，听起像它所表达的意思的单词。

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

许多语言除了 Zzz 之，有自己独特的打鼾拟声词或表现方式。

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

我今天的主题是拟声词——听起像它所描述的东西的词。

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”。

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

就是这样，罗布。这就是拟声词：这个词听起就像它的意思。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’。

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像它的意思，例如“boom”、“whack”和“moo”。

So it's slightly onomatopoeic; the sound and the meaning are quite close together.

所以它有点拟声；音义相近。

Onomatopoetic words are not often used in formal language.

拟声词在正式语言中不常使用。

But that's not the only example of onomatopoeia.

但这并不是拟声词的唯一例子。

Sometimes, onomatopoetic words are even used as adjectives.

有时， 拟声词甚至被用作形容词。

Just listen to the music group Ylvis as they make an entire song about onomatopea!

只需聆听音乐团体 Ylvis 制作一整首关于拟声词的歌曲！

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

是的，你现在可以停下了。非常感谢。再个拟声词如何？单击。再听一遍。单击。

[David] And onomatopoeia, where you make a word that sounds like what the word's effect is.

- [大卫] 有拟声词，你可以在其中创建一个单词，这听起像是单词的效果。

So, listen to my story and see if you can hear all of the onomatopoeic words that I use.

所以，听听我的故事，看看你是否能听出我使用的所有拟声词。

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”就是这样一个词，听起就像它所代表的意思——这是拟声词，是非常快速的声音。