Accentuate
[ək'sentʃʊeɪt;-tjʊ-] or [ək'sɛntʃuet]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
(v. t.) To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
(v. t.) To mark with the written accent.
珍妮整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Mark with accent, put the mark of accent upon.[2]. Accent, lay stress upon, pronounce with accent.
加勒特錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- If the activity as manifested in its consequences is undesirable, to act upon principle is to accentuate its evil. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Well, it was wrong in the first place and such things accentuate disaster as a snowball rolls up wet snow. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- While growth continues, things bodily and mental are lopsided, for growth is never general, but is accentuated now at one spot, now at another. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- At the same time, the idea of national sovereignty has never been as accentuated in politics as it is at the present time. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Against the ebony background of his skin they blazed out with a peculiarly accentuated effulgence. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The man was small and rather old, so that the brutality of the act was thus accentuated. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
整理:雷蒙德