- 1突顯、強調
When you accentuate something, you make it stand out more. You do not change what it is; you just help people notice it. A belt can accentuate a waist. A pause can accentuate a joke. Dark clouds can accentuate a bright house. Teachers also use it for sound: you accentuate a syllable when you say it a little louder or longer than the others. People sometimes reach for this word when they only mean “say it with more feeling,” though actually the core idea is “make it easier to see or hear,” not “make it more important.” It is a step more formal than show or point out, so you meet it in writing, in fashion talk, and in careful speech more than in the playground.
組成accent + a verb ending. English borrowed the whole verb in 1731 from Medieval Latin accentuātus (from Latin accentuō). Latin accentus — our word accent — was itself a copy of a Greek word for the “song” in spoken language.
同家族的字
- accentthe older noun and verb this was built on
- accentuationthe noun for the act or result of accentuating
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
accentuateverb/əkˈsɛn.t͡ʃu.eɪt/
- 1
To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
- 2
To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
- our danger and insolation only accentuated the incompatibility
- These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.
- 3
To mark with a written accent.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。