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/ˈsɪləbəl/
A word, or a part of a word, with one vowel sound in it. You say it as one beat, so cat is one syllable and wa-ter is two.
音節
複數 syllables
核心畫面
Picture one beat of the mouth. Each time your voice opens into a vowel, that's one syllable — cat is one beat, wa-ter is two, in-ter-est-ing is four. Clap while you say a word and you're counting syllables.
嘴巴的一「拍」。每次你的聲音打開成一個母音，就數一拍——cat 一拍，wa-ter 兩拍，in-ter-est-in…更多收起
嘴巴的一「拍」。每次你的聲音打開成一個母音，就數一拍——cat 一拍，wa-ter 兩拍，in-ter-est-ing 四拍。邊念邊拍手，拍幾下就是幾個音節。中文的字大致一字一拍，所以這個概念對中文母語者其實很直覺；差別在於英文一個字可以拖好幾拍，而且哪一拍要重讀會影響別人聽不聽得懂你。原始詞典資料4 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。
syllablenoun/ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
- I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.
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The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
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A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
- Then let them caſt backe their eyes vnto former generations of men, and marke what was done in the prime of the world. Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sem, Abraham, Iob, and the reſt that liued before any ſyllable of the law of God was written, did they not ſinne as much as wee doe in euery action not commanded?
- Th'Archbyſhop Is the Kings hand, and tongue, and who dare ſpeak One ſyllable againſt him?
syllableverb/ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/
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To utter in syllables.
- [A] thouſand fantaſies Begin to throng into my memorie Of calling ſhapes, and beckning ſhadows dire, And ayrie tongues, that ſyllable mens names On Sands, and Shoars, and deſert Wilderneſſes.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。