When I say "pigeon," I don't really seem to have any particular sense of an onomatopoetic word, but if I use the Latin, pipio, which means "to chirp," all of a sudden I say, "Oh, that's onomatopoetic."

当我说鸽子的时候,这个词并不能，反应它自身的意思，但是如果我用拉丁语说鸽子，也就是咕咕“,这就是拟声了“

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One of the things, by the way, that Eikhenbaum does in passing is remind us that we should be on our guard against thinking that sound is onomatopoetic--that is, that it reflects the meaning of what it's talking about.

艾肯鲍姆在书中提到,他特别提醒我们,不应该赞同拟声现象，拟声就是认为声音能反应它所表达的意思。

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