accent

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柯林斯詞典

accent /??ks?nt/ (accents)

1. N-COUNT Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or background they come from. 口音
He had developed a slight southern accent. 他有了一點(diǎn)南方口音。
2. N-COUNT An accent is a short line or other mark which is written above certain letters in some languages and which indicates the way those letters are pronounced. 變音符號(hào)
...an acute accent. …一個(gè)尖音符。

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劍橋詞典

accent noun [C] (PRONUNCIATION)

At university he affected an upper-class accent.
He took elocution lessons to try to make his accent sound more genteel .
A woman with a very posh accent phoned for him earlier .
Many celebrities develop a working class accent to increase their street-credibility.
She speaks English without the slightest trace of an accent.

accent noun [C] (MARK)

There's an acute accent on the e in blé, which is the French word for corn .
Pay attention to the accents on the words, because they show you how to pronounce them.
Fran?oise is spelled with an accent - a cedilla - on the 'c'.
There is an accent called an umlaut in the German word 'Gebaüde', which means 'building '.
They use quite a lot of accents in Turkish writing, don't they?

accent noun [C] (EMPHASIS)