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.
双语例句
1. The controversy surrounding the take-over yesterday continued to reverberate around the television industry.
昨天围绕接管展开的争论在电视业仍然有巨大的反响。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The news sent shock waves through the community that have continued to reverberate to this day.
这则消息震惊了整个社区，直到现在还波澜未息。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building.
声波反射的很远,一直传到建筑物的那一头.
来自互联网
4. The decision will reverberate and will jar the country.
