microphone

noun
🔊/ˈmaɪkrəfəʊn/
🔊/ˈmaɪkrəfəʊn/
(also informal mic, mike)
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  1. a device that is used for recording sounds or for making your voice louder when you are speaking or singing to an audience麦克风;话筒;传声器
    • to speak into the microphone对着麦克风讲话
    • Their remarks were picked up by the hidden microphones.他们的话透过暗藏的麦克风被听到。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • Interviewees are placed in front of the microphone and grilled.参加面试的人被安排在麦克风前接受提问。
    • There's a place to plug in an external microphone.有个插入外接麦克风的地方。
    • Unfortunately we were near an open microphone and all his colleagues heard what we said.不幸的是,我们紧靠着一只开着的麦克风,他所有的同事都听到了我们所说的一切。
    Topics Musicb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • boom
    • cordless
    • headset
    verb + microphone
    • speak into
    • use
    • check
    microphone + verb
    • pick something up
    • record something
    • amplify something
    microphone + noun
    • input
    • jack
    • stand
    preposition
    • behind a/​the microphone
    • in front of a/​the microphone
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