英汉例句

• is the stress on the first syllable or the second syllable?

  重音落在第一个音节还是第二个音节上？

• the first syllable should be accented.

  第一音节应当重读。

• the mahongwe word manono, for example, means 「i like」 when spoken soft and flat, and 「i don’t like」 when the first syllable is a tad sharper in tone.

  例如，马宏威语词汇manono，当用温和平缓的语调发音时，意思为「我喜欢」，而当第一个音节发音稍微尖锐时，意思却是「我不喜欢」。

• when i asked about this unusual word, she said because all three cultural backgrounds were mixed in her, she used the first syllable from each nationality.

  当我问这一怪词时，她说，因为所有这三个文化背景都融合在她身上，她用了每个国家的第一个音节。

• kimchi is now being dubbed keum-chi, the first syllable being korean for gold.

  泡菜现在被称为keum-chi，是韩语中金子发音的第一个音节。

• you should put the stress here, on the first syllable .

  你应该把重音放在这儿，在第一个音节上。

• i have lived some thirty years on this planet, and i have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

  我在这星球上活了三十年，从我的老前辈那儿，我还没听到可称得上有价值的或热情忠告的第一个音节，他们什么也没有告诉我，可能也告诉不了我什么中肯的话。

• the first syllable should be accented.

  第一音节应重读。

• to dis someone means to show him disrespect (the first syllable of the word 「disrespect」 has been split off and turned into a verb).

  「dis」谁就是对谁表示不敬［「dis」取自disrespect(不敬)一词的第一个音节，将其作为动词使用］。

• so battle might be pronounced ba-ill, catching the air behind the back of the tongue at the end of the first syllable before expelling it on pronunciation of the second syllable.

  所以battle可能会被发为ba-ill，在第一个音节发完后第二个音节发音前留住舌头后面的空气。 有时字母h在一些口音里也不发音。

• my father, for instance, has this way of answering the phone. 「hellll o, 」 he says, putting a heavy accent on the first syllable and snapping the 「o」 short.

  比方说父亲接电话时总是口音很夸张第一个音节，吞掉了第二个音节。

• when the first syllable is stressed, the word is either a noun or an adjective.

  当第一个音节重读的话，这个单词可以是一个名词也可以是一个形容词。