undertone

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Do not wear frosty eye shadow, and avoid anything with a blue undertone.
不要使用霜狀眼影，以及避免使用藍(lán)色底色的化妝品。
Was it just me, or did you hear an undertone of marital discontent?
是我多心了，還是你也聽出了帕蒂言下對(duì)自己婚姻的不滿意？
Lipsticks with a blue undertone make your lips pop out.
藍(lán)色底色的口紅會(huì)讓你的嘴唇看起來凸出來。

It can have a very sarcastic undertone which could be good, depending on what you need to express.
它可以表達(dá)一種帶著挖苦意味的好意，這取決于你表達(dá)的需要。
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because that sarcastic undertone may or may not be present depending on how it's used.
因?yàn)樵捴惺欠裼型诳嗟囊馑?，還得看這句型是如何使用的。
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In my first example, I will use the sarcastic undertone.
在第一個(gè)例句中，我會(huì)帶點(diǎn)挖苦的意思。
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And there's starting to be a little bit of an undertone of that in this conversation.
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(CHARACTERISTIC) a particular but not obvious characteristic that a piece of writing or speech, an event, or a situation has
(QUIET VOICE) in a very quiet voice

If you say something in an undertone, you say it very quietly.
If something has undertones of a particular kind, it suggests ideas or attitudes of this kind without expressing them directly.