| 单词 | accent |
| 释义 | accentaccentsaccentaccent /ˈæksənt $ ˈæksent/ noun [countable]1a way of pronouncing words that someone has because of where they were born or live: He’s got a strong northern accent.get他的北方口音很重。2the accent on something the importance given to something: a training programme with the accent on safetytrain以安全为重点的一个培训计划3a mark written above some letters, for example é or â: The ‘é’ in fiancée has an acute accent.havefiancée里的é有一个尖音符号。COLLOCATIONS: accentverbsto have an accentShe had a strong French accent.haveto speak with an accentThe man spoke with a New York accent.speakto lose your accentHis English was good, but he never lost his German accent.beloseto put on an accent (=to deliberately speak with a different accent)He put on an Italian accent and waved his arms about.wavearmadjectivesa French/American etc accentI noticed that she had a Spanish accent.noticehavea strong/broad/thick accent (=very noticeable)His accent was so strong I found it hard to understand what he was saying.befindbesayThe caller spoke with a strong Scottish accent.speaka slight/faint accentShe has a very slight Irish accent.havea foreign accentI got a call from a man with a foreign accent.geta New York/London/Chicago etc accentThe woman had a Chicago accent.havea southern/northern accentHe spoke with a lovely soft southern accent.speaka regional accent (=from a particular area of a country)If you have a regional accent, don’t try to hide it.a posh accent British English informal (=an upper-class accent)a tall, well-dressed man with a posh accentdressTHESAURUS: accentdialect a form of a language that is spoken in one part of a country: Mandarin and Cantonese are two of the Chinese dialects.bedialectaccent the way that someone pronounces words, because of where they were born or live, or because of their social class: She has a strong New Jersey accent.haveslang very informal spoken language, used especially by people who belong to a particular group, for example young people: ‘Fierce’ is slang for ‘good’.beterminology the technical words that are used in a subject: Patients are often unfamiliar with medical terminology.patientbejargon especially disapproving words and phrases used by people in the same profession that are difficult for other people to understand: The instructions were written in complicated technical jargon.instructionbewritecomplicate |
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