Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #1813
tone
使（肌肉）结实；使健美
to make something firmer, especially muscles
常指通过锻炼使身体部位紧实
- 1.
to give a particular tone to
赋予特定的音调
- 2.
to change the colour of
改变颜色
- 3.
to make (something) firmer
使(某物)更紧实
- 4.
to utter with an affected tone.
用做作的语调说话
调色；给…着色；定调；使具有某种色调/特征；以做作的语气说出；赋予特定的音调；改变颜色
In use
I do yoga twice a week to tone my arms and legs.
She has been toning her core with these new exercises.
Regular swimming tones the whole body without putting stress on the joints.
Verb forms
base tone · third person tones · -ing toning · past toned · past participle toned
Connections
Collocations
- tone up
- 使（肌肉）结实健美
- I've started running to tone up before summer.我开始了跑步，以便在夏天之前锻炼身材。
- tone the skin
- 使皮肤紧致有弹性
- Use this moisturizer to tone and hydrate your skin.使用这款润肤霜来紧致并滋润你的皮肤。
- tone a photograph
- 给照片调色
- You can tone a photograph using a sepia filter.你可以用怀旧棕褐滤镜给照片调色。
Idioms & figurative uses
- tone down
- 缓和；降低（言论等的）激烈程度The manager asked him to tone down his criticism.经理让他把批评说得委婉一些。
- tone up
- 使（肌肉）变结实；加强These exercises will help you tone up your thigh muscles.这些锻炼有助于增强你大腿肌肉的紧实度。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想名词“音调”：给身体调音=练出紧实肌肉，给照片调音=调色。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：fitness、photography、music、literature tone 作动词时含义多样，语气随场景变化。比较常见于健身话题，如 tone (up) your muscles，语气中性；在摄影/设计或音乐领域偏技术性；表示“用做作的语调说话”多用于文学或正式表达。建议先掌握健身用法。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 tone 押韵的词：bone /boʊn/、phone /foʊn/、stone /stoʊn/、alone /əˈloʊn/（同含 /oʊn/ 音）。注意拼写相似的 gone /ɡɔːn/ 和 done /dʌn/ 发音不同，不押韵；one /wʌn/ 也不押韵。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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