Accent
['æks(ə)nt;-sent] or ['æksɛnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation.
(noun.) distinctive manner of oral expression; 'he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent'; 'she had a very clear speech pattern'.
克拉丽斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
(n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
(n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
(n.) A word; a significant tone
(n.) expressions in general; speech.
(n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
(n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
(n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
(n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
(n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
(n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.
(n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
(n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.
(v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
(v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
雨果錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Intonation, cadence, tone, modulation of voice.[2]. Stress (on a certain syllable).
v. a. Accentuate, lay stress upon, pronounce with accent.
手打:普里西拉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Stress, rhythm, pulsation, beat, emphasis
ANT:Smoothness, inaccentuation, monotony, equableness, babble, flow
哈洛錄入
解釋/意思:
n. modulation of the voice: stress on a syllable or word: a mark used to direct this stress: any mode of utterance peculiar to a country a province or an individual: (poet.) a significant word or words generally: (pl.) speech language.—v.t. Accent′ to express or note the accent.—adj. Accent′ual relating to accent.—n. Accentual′ity.—adv. Accent′ually.—v.t. Accent′uate to mark or pronounce with accent: to make prominent.—n. Accentuā′tion the act of marking or of pronouncing accents.
埃莉整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Captain Lydgate's stupidity was delicately scented, carried itself with style, talked with a good accent, and was closely related to Sir Godwin. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I wish her whole attention to be fixed on my accent; and to ensure this, she must follow the reading with her eyes--she must look at the book. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She heard me out without interruption and then said with her pretty accent and in her mildest voice, Hey, mademoiselle, I have received my answer! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received no answer. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Take your time and mind your accent; especially let us have no English _u_'s. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The old woman's voice had changed: her accent, her gesture, and all were familiar to me as my own face in a glass--as the speech of my own tongue. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- What though those limbs moved not, and those lips could no more frame modulated accents of wisdom and love! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- What dulness may not red lips and sweet accents render pleasant? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He should have addressed her at once in solemn accents, and with rigid mien. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Her accents obeyed the fitful impulse of the wind; they swelled as its gusts rushed on, and died as they wandered away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The Colonel told his senior briefly, and in broken accents, the circumstances of the case. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- With the departure of the figures the profuse articulations of the women wasted away from her memory; but the accents of the other stayed on. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Madame's brow had not been ruffled during the scene--her lips had not dropped one sharply-accented word. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
整理:胡安妮塔