emphasis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important. countable,uncountable
    — He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
  2. Special attention or prominence given to something. countable,uncountable
    — Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
  3. Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type. countable,uncountable
    — He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
  4. The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants. countable,uncountable
  5. The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text. countable,uncountable

词形变化

emphases plural

词汇关系

衍生词
deemphasis de-emphasis hyperemphasis misemphasis my emphasis overemphasis preemphasis reemphasis superemphasis underemphasis
相关词
de-emphasisation de-emphasization emphasisation emphasise emphasiser emphasising emphasization emphasize emphasizer emphasizing emphatic emphatical emphatically emphaticalness emphaticness

词源

From Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “to present; to indicate”), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).
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