pronouncing
present participle ofpronounce
| 单词 | pronouncing |
| 释义 | pronouncing present participle ofpronounce pronounce verb[T] uk/prəˈnaʊns/us/prəˈnaʊns/pronounceverb[T](MAKE SOUND)B1 to say a word or aletterin aparticularway: How do you pronounceyoursurname? She pronounced hisnamesobadlyhe didn'tevenrecognizeit. Sade, pronounced shah-day, is asinger.
Ways of speaking
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Linguistics: phonology & phonetics pronounceverb[T](TO STATE)formal to say somethingofficiallyorcertainly: [+ obj + noun/adj]He was taken to thehospitalwhere he was pronounceddeadonarrival. Thejurypronounced himguilty. Hegazedvacantlywhile theverdictandsentencewere pronounced. Shesurveyedthebuildingand pronounced herselfpleasedwiththeirwork. [+ that]Thegovernmentpronouncedthatthey are nolongeranuclearstate. "Have Imethim?" "You haveindeed- Irecallyou pronounced the man(= said that he was)afool." Thedessertwastriedand pronounceddelicious. to say something
Announcing, informing & stating
Phrasal verbpronounce on/uponsomething Examplesofpronouncingpronouncing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nowhere, however, did he actually comment upon their legality or illegality, let alonepronouncinga verdict on the very faith of the emperor. From theCambridge English Corpus A female experimenter gave the verbal instructions live,pronouncingthem with a normal speed. From theCambridge English Corpus The small number of test items (10 classifiers), however, is too small forpronouncingdefinitively on early classifier acquisition. From theCambridge English Corpus We have seen above that speakers are generally unaware that they arepronouncingschwa at all. From theCambridge English Corpus In the diacritic training task, the children were first asked to touch their larynx whilepronouncing/p/ and /b/. From theCambridge English Corpus The option of notpronouncingsuch a skeletal slot at all is obviously available. From theCambridge English Corpus With brief instruction, pocket card guidelines, and 3-months experience, the majority of interns reported needing minimal0no assistance inpronouncingdeath. From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, children achieve greater success inpronouncingcorrectly a phoneme word-initially or word-medially than word-finally. From theCambridge English Corpus Uponpronouncingan irrevocable tal-q, however, the man must hand over the full amount. From theCambridge English Corpus I am incapable ofpronouncinga single word. From theCambridge English Corpus A couple of the subjects actually used a marked foreign accent inpronouncingthe words. From theCambridge English Corpus Pronouncing"the" as "thee" to signal problems in speaking. From theCambridge English Corpus Many pronunciations are drawn from on-linepronouncingdictionaries or are generated by grapheme-to-phoneme systems that are deemed reliable. From theCambridge English Corpus Most conspicuously, young children do sometimes regress frompronouncinga word (relatively) correctly topronouncingit less correctly. From theCambridge English Corpus Endorsement organizations signal ideological preferences on a handful of issues but can be excused frompronouncingthemselves on others. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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