| 单词 | emphasis |
| 释义 | emphasis (once / 214 pages) n While the emphasis, or main focus, for walking a dog might be on "answering the call of nature," the emphasis for the dog might be on chasing squirrels. If you say emphasis a little louder or with extra oomph in your pronunciation, you are putting emphasis on the word. This emphasis makes it clear that special attention, or emphasis, should be given to the word. Now, having repeated emphasis so many times, the "s" sound really stands out, sort of like in the word "stress." When you stress a point, you put emphasis on something — it is the main thing, the emphasis. WORD FAMILYemphasis: emphases, emphasise, emphasises, emphasize, overemphasis+/de-emphasize: de-emphasized/emphasise: de-emphasise, emphasised, emphasising, overemphasise, re-emphasise/emphasize: de-emphasize, emphasized, emphasizes, emphasizing, overemphasize, re-emphasize/overemphasise: overemphasised, overemphasising/overemphasize: overemphasized, overemphasizes, overemphasizing/re-emphasize: re-emphasized USAGE EXAMPLES“The players are off,” McAdoo said, with emphasis on each word. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The poem’s emphasis on Odysseus’ cunning starts to seem like the celebration of the emergence of a new kind of consciousness. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Of all the presidents in the past 50 years, Nixon placed the least emphasis on the book. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n intensity or forcefulness of expression his emphasis on civil rights Syn|Hypo|Hyper vehemence overemphasis too much emphasis intensity, intensiveness high level or degree; the property of being intense 2n special importance or significance the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis Syn|Hypo|Hyper accent focus, stress special emphasis attached to something grandness, importance a prominent status 3n special and significant stress by means of position or repetition Hypo|Hyper topicalization (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) 4n the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) Syn|Hypo|Hyper accent, stress accentuation the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance pitch accent, tonic accentemphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness word accent, word stressthe distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word sentence stressthe distribution of stresses within a sentence inflection, prosody the patterns of stress and intonation in a language |
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