adj. 元音的

n. 元音；母音

vowel system the system of vowels used in a particular language

同義詞： vocalism

mixed vowel央元音

open vowel開元音

nasalized vowel鼻音化元音

vowel point a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel

vowel sound元音聲

vowel length母音長度；元音長度

central vowel央元音

consonant輔音；輔音字母

towards the end of middle english, a sudden and distinct change in pronunciation (the great vowel shift) started, with vowels being pronounced shorter and shorter.

隨著中世紀英語的泯滅，發音突然發生了很大的變化（元音大推移），元音的發音越來越短。

slightly varying a vowel or the pronunciation of a word can completely alter its intended meaning.

哪怕你只是發錯了一個元音，這個詞的意思也有可能完全改變。

really foreign sounds: spanish silbo, a whistle language, has only four vowel and four consonant sounds. audible for miles, it resembles bird calls and is indigenous to—where else?—the canary islands.

真正的外語：西班牙加那利群島上的希爾伯哨語，這種口哨語言只有四個元音和四個輔音，發出的聲音就像鳥叫，可以傳到幾英里之外。

the student was practising making a new vowel sound.

那個學生在練習一個新母音的發音。

eventually ireland swapped places with italy to provide the vowel in the unflattering acronym originally drawn up for portugal, italy, greece and spain.

最終愛爾蘭取代了意大利在位置，充當原本為葡萄牙，意大利，希臘和西班牙專設的縮寫單詞中的元音字母（pigs）。

「what distinguishes one vowel from another is the shape of the waveform entering the ear, 」 dr. shamma said.

「區分元音的根據是進入耳朵的波形形狀，」夏瑪博士說。

and other sounds, like the higher vowel in 「bath」 that americans use today, used to be standard in england.

其他的音，例如美國人現在在「bath」中發的后高元音，以前在英格蘭也是標準音。

the schwa is the most frequent vowel sound in english speech.

在英語中，中元音是最常用的元音。

c1400 the great vowel shift begins.

c1400元音大推移開始

at four months, babies can recognise lip movements asso- ciated with vowel sounds.

四個月大的嬰兒就能夠辨別出和元音發音有關的嘴唇動作。

cantonese has 59 vowel sounds, twice as many as mandarin「s 23.

粵語有59個元音，普通話23個，前者是后者的兩倍多。

pure vowel sounds, articulation, proper breathing, expressive speaking patterns, a pleasing vocal range, naturalness, all these will make you get twice the result with half the effort.

元音字正腔圓，發音清晰，呼吸勻稱，表達方式合適，音域悅耳，說話自然，所有這些都會使你事半功倍。

making what seem like very small mistakes in vowel sounds can be embarrassing, as jeremy discovered when he didn」t pronounce his french u correctly in a parisian post office.

在元音的發音方面即使犯了一個看上去似乎無關緊要的小錯誤，也會導致尷尬的情形，正如杰利米發現，當他在巴黎郵政局時不能夠正確地發出法語中「u」的時候。

the application instructs users to mimic 15 different vowel sounds and 16 consonant sounds to replicate received pronunciation.

通過這個程序，使用者能跟讀15個元音和16個輔音。

from the swirl of its initial letter to its sighing vowel and feather-soft final consonant, the very word—”swan”—suggests grace. peter ilich tchaikovsky did not, after all, write duck pond.

從回旋婉轉的首字母，到嘆息般的元音，再到羽毛般輕柔的后輔音，swan這個非凡的單詞幾乎就是優雅的同義詞，若非如此，彼得·伊里奇·柴可夫斯基（peterilichtchaikovsky）又怎能寫出《天鵝湖》那般偉大的作品來。

one group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to the other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.

一個組的嬰兒夜間睡覺的時候還放著同三個元音的錄音，而其他的嬰兒只聽其他的較容易區分的元音。