reverberate: [16] Latin verbera meant ‘whips, rods’ (it was related to Greek rhábdos ‘stick’). From it was derived the verb verberāre ‘whip, beat’, which with the addition of the prefix re- ‘back’ produced reverberāre ‘beat back’. When this first arrived in English it was used literally (Thomas Coryat, for instance, in his Crudities 1611, wrote of ‘a strong wall to repulse and reverberate the furious waves of the sea’), but it was not long before the metaphorical application to the re-echoing of sounds took over.
reverberate (v.)
1570s, "beat back, drive back, force back," from Latin reverberatus, past participle of reverberare "strike back, repel, cause to rebound" (see reverberation). Meaning "re-echo" is from 1590s. Earlier verb was reverberen (early 15c.). Related: Reverberated; reverberating.
雙語例句
1. The controversy surrounding the take-over yesterday continued to reverberate around the television industry.
昨天圍繞接管展開的爭論在電視業仍然有巨大的反響。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The news sent shock waves through the community that have continued to reverberate to this day.
這則消息震驚了整個社區，直到現在還波瀾未息。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building.
聲波反射的很遠,一直傳到建筑物的那一頭.
來自互聯網
4. The decision will reverberate and will jar the country.