tone up
collocation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。
使（肌肉）结实；使健美
toning — present participle of tone
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使（肌肉）结实；使健美
to make something firmer, especially muscles
I do yoga twice a week to tone my arms and legs.
我每周做两次瑜伽来使我的手臂和腿部肌肉结实。
常指通过锻炼使身体部位紧实
赋予特定的音调
to give a particular tone to
改变颜色
to change the colour of
使(某物)更紧实
to make (something) firmer
用做作的语调说话
to utter with an affected tone.
tone
Base
原形
tones
3rd person
第三人称单数
toning
-ing
现在分词
toned
Past
过去式
toned
Past participle
过去分词
She tones her muscles every morning.
她每天早上锻炼肌肉。
He toned down his speech last night.
他昨晚缓和了演讲的语气。
They have toned the room with warm colors.
他们用暖色调调整了房间的色调。
She has been toning her core with these new exercises.
她一直在用这些新动作来锻炼腹部肌肉，使之结实。
Regular swimming tones the whole body without putting stress on the joints.
经常游泳能使全身肌肉结实，而且不会给关节带来压力。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
与…协调；与…相配
The curtains tone in with the carpet.
窗帘和地毯很协调。
Use toning naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
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联想名词“音调”：给身体调音=练出紧实肌肉，给照片调音=调色。
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。
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。
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