" I will indeed send her to school soon, " murmured Mrs. Reed sotto voce; and gathering up her work, she abruptly quitted the apartment.
“我很快就会送她去上学,”里德太太低声喃喃地说。收拾好她的工作,她突然离开了公寓。
飘(原版)
He took her to plays and annoyed her by whispering that God probably didn't approve of such amusements, and to churches and, sotto voce, retailed funny obscenities and then reproved her for laughing.
Sotto voce (/ˈsɒtoʊˈvoʊtʃeɪ/; Italian:[ˈsotto ˈvoːtʃe], literally "under voice") means intentionally lowering the volume of one's voice for emphasis. The speaker gives the impression of uttering involuntarily a truth which may surprise, shock, or offend. Galileo Galilei's (probably apocryphal) utterance "Eppur si muove" ("Nonetheless, [the Earth] does move"), spoken after recanting his heliocentric theory, is an example of sotto voce utterance.