Accent

(noun.) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation.

(noun.) distinctive manner of oral expression; 'he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent'; 'she had a very clear speech pattern'.

克拉丽斯编辑

• Captain Lydgate's stupidity was delicately scented, carried itself with style, talked with a good accent, and was closely related to Sir Godwin. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I wish her whole attention to be fixed on my accent; and to ensure this, she must follow the reading with her eyes--she must look at the book. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She heard me out without interruption and then said with her pretty accent and in her mildest voice, Hey, mademoiselle, I have received my answer! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received no answer. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Take your time and mind your accent; especially let us have no English _u_'s. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The old woman's voice had changed: her accent, her gesture, and all were familiar to me as my own face in a glass--as the speech of my own tongue. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• What though those limbs moved not, and those lips could no more frame modulated accents of wisdom and love! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What dulness may not red lips and sweet accents render pleasant? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He should have addressed her at once in solemn accents, and with rigid mien. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her accents obeyed the fitful impulse of the wind; they swelled as its gusts rushed on, and died as they wandered away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The Colonel told his senior briefly, and in broken accents, the circumstances of the case. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• With the departure of the figures the profuse articulations of the women wasted away from her memory; but the accents of the other stayed on. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Madame's brow had not been ruffled during the scene--her lips had not dropped one sharply-accented word. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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