accent, dialect
这两个词的意思其实并不相同, accent 是“乡音; 口音”,其标记体现在读音方面, dialect 是“方言”,其特点体现在不同的语法结构和词汇上。试比较下面两句:
He has a thick country accent.
他的乡土口音很重。
Cockney is the colourful dialect spoken in the East End of London.
伦敦土话是在伦敦东区流行的一种 非常生动的方言。
accent, stress
这两个词都可以作“重音; 重读”解,常可替换,不过在现代英语里accent 更常作“口音; 腔调”解,表示“重音”时较常用 stress。试比较下面两句:
He speaks English with a strong Chinese accent.
他说英语时带有浓重的中国腔。
He puts stresses on every vowel sound.
他强调每一个元音。
The way she puts on that accent really irritates me.
她故意操那种口音的样子实在令我恼火。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
He answered our questions in English but with a thick accent.
他用英语回答了我们的问题，不过口音很重。
柯林斯例句
"Good, Mr Ryle," he said in English with a strong French accent.
“好的，赖尔先生，”他用带有浓重法国口音的英语说。
柯林斯例句
She speaks French with an atrocious accent.
她讲法语带有很难听的口音。
——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
The voice was patronizing and affected, the accent artificial.
声音拿腔拿调的，听上去矫揉造作。
——柯林斯例句
His accent argues him to be a foreigner.
他的腔调表明他是个外国人.
《简明英汉词典》
Her accent argues that she is from Dalian.
她的口音表明了她是大连人.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
He speaks with a British accent, but that is just an affectation because he's not British.
他说话带有英国口音, 但这是装出来的,因为他不是英国人.
——《简明英汉词典》
He has adopted the accent of a Second World War newscaster.
他承袭了二战时期播音员的口音。
——柯林斯例句
a cod American accent
假装的美国口音
——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
She speaks in this ridiculous mockney accent.
她模仿伦敦东区人的口音拿腔拿调地说话。
——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
to speak with a transatlantic accent
说话带大西洋对岸的口音
——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
Her accent was unmistakable.
她的口音是很明显的。
——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
"Your children may well come away speaking with a bit of a broad country accent" — "Right." —"because they're mixing with country children."
“你的孩子们走的时候可能会带点儿浓重的乡下口音。”——“嗯。”——“因为他们现在和乡下孩子打成一片。”
——柯林斯例句
The Cockney accent was put on for effect.
这伦敦腔是为了给人以深刻印象而故意装出来的。
——柯林斯例句
He had a pleasant, lilting northern accent.
他说话带着悦耳的、抑扬顿挫的北方口音。
——柯林斯例句
"I was hot," I could still hear Charlotte say with her delicious French accent.
“我很热，”夏洛特那带有甜美法国口音的话语仍在我的脑际盘旋。
——柯林斯例句
The man spoke with a Cockney accent.
那人说话带伦敦东区口音。
——柯林斯例句
I've tried to pass off my accent as a convent school accent.
我努力将口音装成女修会学校的口音。
——柯林斯例句
The kids all put on a phoney American accent.
这些小孩都操着一副假冒的美国腔.
——《简明英汉词典》
Please accent the first syllable.
请重读第一个音节.
——《简明英汉词典》
The room was quiet and neutral in colouring , but it was given accent by bowls of bright flowers.
室内色彩素静, 但是一盆盆的鲜花,使屋子大为增色.
——《简明英汉词典》
Using a false accent over the phone is a sign of inferiority.
打电话时故意作出某种口音是自卑的表现.
——《简明英汉词典》
This is a secondary accent.
这个是次重音.
——《简明英汉词典》
He has a slight Shandong accent.
他略微有些山东口音.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
As soon as we heard his accent, we knew he was from Sichuan.
一听他的腔调, 就知道是四川人.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
Her British accent is just a mannerism picked up on her visit to London.
她的英国口音是她访问伦敦学会的.
——《现代英汉综合大词典》
This person speaks with a Shandong accent.
这人说话带山东调儿.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
He has a peculiar accent.
他的口音很特别.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
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