英语释义

• a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel

• a speech sound made with the vocal tract open

片语

vowel system the system of vowels used in a particular language

同义词： vocalism

mixed vowel央元音

open vowel开元音

nasalized vowel鼻音化元音

vowel point a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel

vowel sound元音声

vowel length母音长度；元音长度

central vowel央元音

英汉例句

• towards the end of middle english, a sudden and distinct change in pronunciation (the great vowel shift) started, with vowels being pronounced shorter and shorter.

  随着中世纪英语的泯灭，发音突然发生了很大的变化（元音大推移），元音的发音越来越短。

• slightly varying a vowel or the pronunciation of a word can completely alter its intended meaning.

  哪怕你只是发错了一个元音，这个词的意思也有可能完全改变。

• really foreign sounds: spanish silbo, a whistle language, has only four vowel and four consonant sounds. audible for miles, it resembles bird calls and is indigenous to—where else?—the canary islands.

  真正的外语：西班牙加那利群岛上的希尔伯哨语，这种口哨语言只有四个元音和四个辅音，发出的声音就像鸟叫，可以传到几英里之外。

• the student was practising making a new vowel sound.

  那个学生在练习一个新母音的发音。

• eventually ireland swapped places with italy to provide the vowel in the unflattering acronym originally drawn up for portugal, italy, greece and spain.

  最终爱尔兰取代了意大利在位置，充当原本为葡萄牙，意大利，希腊和西班牙专设的缩写单词中的元音字母（pigs）。

• 「what distinguishes one vowel from another is the shape of the waveform entering the ear, 」 dr. shamma said.

  「区分元音的根据是进入耳朵的波形形状，」夏玛博士说。

• and other sounds, like the higher vowel in 「bath」 that americans use today, used to be standard in england.

  其他的音，例如美国人现在在「bath」中发的后高元音，以前在英格兰也是标準音。

• the schwa is the most frequent vowel sound in english speech.

  在英语中，中元音是最常用的元音。

• c1400 the great vowel shift begins.

  c1400元音大推移开始

• at four months, babies can recognise lip movements asso- ciated with vowel sounds.

  四个月大的婴儿就能够辨别出和元音发音有关的嘴唇动作。

• cantonese has 59 vowel sounds, twice as many as mandarin「s 23.

  粤语有59个元音，普通话23个，前者是后者的两倍多。

• pure vowel sounds, articulation, proper breathing, expressive speaking patterns, a pleasing vocal range, naturalness, all these will make you get twice the result with half the effort.

  元音字正腔圆，发音清晰，呼吸匀称，表达方式合适，音域悦耳，说话自然，所有这些都会使你事半功倍。

• making what seem like very small mistakes in vowel sounds can be embarrassing, as jeremy discovered when he didn」t pronounce his french u correctly in a parisian post office.

  在元音的发音方面即使犯了一个看上去似乎无关紧要的小错误，也会导致尴尬的情形，正如杰利米发现，当他在巴黎邮政局时不能够正确地发出法语中「u」的时候。

• the application instructs users to mimic 15 different vowel sounds and 16 consonant sounds to replicate received pronunciation.

  通过这个程序，使用者能跟读15个元音和16个辅音。

• from the swirl of its initial letter to its sighing vowel and feather-soft final consonant, the very word—”swan”—suggests grace. peter ilich tchaikovsky did not, after all, write duck pond.

  从回旋婉转的首字母，到叹息般的元音，再到羽毛般轻柔的后辅音，swan这个非凡的单词几乎就是优雅的同义词，若非如此，彼得·伊里奇·柴可夫斯基（peterilichtchaikovsky）又怎能写出《天鹅湖》那般伟大的作品来。

• one group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to the other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.

  一个组的婴儿夜间睡觉的时候还放着同三个元音的录音，而其他的婴儿只听其他的较容易区分的元音。

相反词

consonant辅音；辅音字母