Alphabet
['ælfəbet] or ['ælfə'bɛt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language.
克里斯整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
(n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.
(v. t.) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
整理:奥拉
解釋/意思:
n. the letters of a language arranged in the usual order.—n. Alphabetā′rian one learning his alphabet a beginner: a student of alphabets.—adjs. Alphabet′ic -al relating to or in the order of an alphabet.—adv. Alphabet′ically.—v.t. Al′phabetise to arrange alphabetically:—pr.p. al′phabetīsing; pa.p. al′phabetīsed.
編輯:洛拉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A toy for the children found in books, blocks, pictures and vermicelli soup. Contains 26 letters and only three syllables.
錄入:罗兰
例句/造句/用法:
- We made up a scheme to hold this wire, so he changed one letter of the alphabet and I soon got used to it; and finally we changed three letters. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Korea long ago went a step farther and developed a true alphabet from the same Chinese origins. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The book had an alphabet in it, some figures and tables, and a little spelling,--that is to say, it had had once. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Hence, the transmitted message was received on the tape in visible dots and dashes representing characters of the Morse alphabet. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It ceased to be pictographic or ideographic; it became simply a pure sound-sign system, an _alphabet_. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In this manner the letters of the alphabet were indicated by dots upon a strip of paper, kept slowly moving by clock mechanism. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Ampère and of Baron de Schilling, though in some respects not so efficient as either, for its action was slow, and it required a separate wire for each letter of the alphabet. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In capital B's and H's most of the girls under Miss Peecher's tuition were half a year ahead of every other letter in the alphabet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Most of the early telegraphic inventors encumbered their inventions with the same obstacle, as they seemed to consider it necessary to have a separate circuit for each letter of the alphabet. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- No law in that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The alphabet consisted simply of an arrangement of dots and dashes in varying sequence. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It was considered a great advantage of this telegraph at the time, that it exhibited actual letters of the alphabet, instead of symbols. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Probably the Mediterranean alphabet, which is the basis of most Indian scripts, had not yet reached India. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Few scholars would have disliked teaching the alphabet under such circumstances. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- These movements give rise to the clicking sounds which represent the dots and dashes of the Morse or other alphabet as transmitted by the operator. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There were a number of such alphabets in the Mediterranean differing widely from each other. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Speech developed written characters and alphabets. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
編輯:西尔维亚