And the boom and the board was somewhat sonic.

boom 和 board 两个词都有点拟声词的感觉。

But that's not the only example of onomatopoeia.

并不是拟声词的唯一例子。

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！

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”。

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

本期我们要的是拟声词，听起来像它们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 之外，还有自己独特的打鼾拟声词或表现方式。

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。

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子，我们将在今天的节目中到其中的一些。

The word 'purr' is a great example of onomatopoeia and refers to the constant noise which ranges in frequency between 25 and 150 hertz.

“咕声”个词是拟声词的一个很好的例子，指的是频率在 25 到 150 赫兹之间的恒定噪声。

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。

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.

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

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。