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    To italicize a word is to print or type it in letters that lean to the right — the style called . Writers and teachers do this when a word needs to stand out: the title of a book or film, a word from another language, or a word you should read with extra feeling. On a computer you often click a button, and the machine italicizes the words for you. In American spelling it is italicize; in British spelling you may see italicise. People sometimes say italicize when they only mean “make it noticeable” — though actually bold type and are different tools, and have their own job. If you italicize almost every line, nothing is special any more.

    用斜體標示;改成斜體

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成italic (the slanted letter style, named after Italy, where printers first used it) + -ize (an old Greek ending that English uses to turn a thing into a verb: to make something italic).

同家族的字

  • italicthe slanted style of letters; italicize is the verb for putting words into that style
  • italicsthe name of those leaning letters as a set
  • Italyitalic type is named after Italy, where those slanted letters were first made

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

italicizeverb/ɪˈtæl.ɪ.saɪz/

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    mediapublishingtypographyTo put into italics.

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    To emphasize.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。