Inflection
[ in'flekʃən ]
n. 变音，转调;
📝 例句
She spoke in a low voice, always without inflection.
她低声说话, 总是声调平平无抑扬变化.
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
inflection
(also inflexion), n
1 (grammar)
(a) [U] inflecting （词尾的）屈折变化; 词尾变化.
(b) [C] suffix used to inflect a word (eg -ed, -ing) （词形变化的）後缀, 屈折尾缀（如-ed、 -ing）.
2 [U] rise and fall of the voice in speaking （说话声音的）抑扬变化. Cf 参看 intonation, stress 3.
🔁 扩展释义
*[in'flekʃәn]n. 屈曲, 变调, 音调变化
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Time moved at a snail's pace before the holiday.
假期之前时间过得非常缓慢。
My brother used to speak French to me all the time.
我的兄弟过去总是对我说法语。
We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders.
我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽，然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。