Definition of syllable in English:

syllable

noun ˈsɪləb(ə)lˈsɪləb(ə)l

1A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.
音节
Example sentencesExamples
- Lexa tried to repeat the name and fumbled over the made-up syllables and vowel sounds thrown in at random.
- The vowels of the stressed syllables in such words as father and fodder are generally identical.
- After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
- His discussion of iambic pentameter (five stresses to a line, with the stress on the second syllable of each unit) is thorough and contains extensive examples.
- The Elision subtest is a deletion task with the child required to restate a word with either syllables or single sounds omitted from the beginning, middle, or end of the word.
- Of course, children learning to read any of the alphabetic languages tend to sound out letters and syllables until they recognise first whole words and then groups of words.
- In America, it's commonly said with an ‘o’ sound in the second syllable.
- There is no news story that cannot be reduced to a word of three syllables, and whole sentences bore us.
- Unlike Italian, stress is not required for monosyllabic and bisyllabic words; and unlike Spanish, stress is always assigned on the penultimate syllable of multisyllabic words.
- The Sumerians and Egyptians also used symbols to represent spoken sounds, such as syllables and words.
- This is recommended viewing, even for those of you whose eyes glaze over by the second syllable of the word ‘documentary.’
- From a phonetic point of view, Casa is pronounced as the Spanish word ‘casa’, with the emphasis on the first syllable ‘ca’ and a soft and short sound for the second syllable.
- This was observed in practice when both teachers, especially Ms. Hernández, prompted students to sound out and decode words by phonemes when syllables could not be quickly identified.
- In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text.
- He tried to focus on the sound, on the syllables and soft vibrations that were forming into words.
- For the stammerer there is a feeling of being out of control and an ensuing repetition of sounds, syllables, words or pauses.
- Articulation disorders include difficulties producing sounds in syllables or saying words incorrectly to the point that other people can't understand what's being said.
- The passage is a rather dense one, with 46 syllables, for an relatively high average (for English) of 1.78 syllables / word.
- As children gain more experience with language and with manipulating sounds in words, they can identify the syllables, or the sound chunks, in words.
- Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables.
1. 1.1 A character or characters representing a syllable.
  表示音节的符号
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables.
  Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms.
  The system consisted mainly of symbols representing open syllables, i.e. consonant-vowel pairs.
  As its signs represent native syllables (such as sa and ke), TRANSLITERATION almost invariably produces phonetic change.
2. 1.2usually with negative The least amount of speech or writing; the least mention of something.
  只言片语
  I'd never have breathed a syllable if he'd kept quiet
  如果他当时保持沉默的话，我决不会说一个字的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But just to witness the shocked disbelief on their anal retentive little faces when I do it will be worth every syllable.
  They conveniently turned the other cheek, when it was no season for weakness, and uttered no syllable under the UNIP government.
  The storytellers seem to cut loose, the organisers are relaxed and the audience wants to be sure it hears every syllable before the festival ends for another year.
  To get inside Donelly's third solo album, you must surrender, slow down and examine every note and syllable.
  It is a tribute to the fierce talent of Diamond, and the skilful compiling of Dominic Lawson, that in every other syllable of this book the man feels most incredibly alive.
  Fully deserving of every syllable of praise it has received, this album should gain a very healthy cult following. - Mike Hogan
  It's a poem that's been subjected to much critical appraisal, analysed and pulled apart, and examined minutely to the very last syllable.
  Meanwhile, the Crown is held to account for every syllable uttered, all the while keeping an eye on the allocated budget, which tends to result in asinine decisions to only take to trial cases which are absolute slam dunks.
  All of those can be rationalized or ignored by people who are now going over every syllable Cindy Sheehan utters.
  All in all, she's no David Attenborough (who speaks at the perfect speed, whether you're taking notes or just absorbing every syllable of his beautifully written scripts).
  As the Neanderthal, sex-driven doc, he blazes brilliantly across every frame of the screen, evidently relishing every loaded syllable of Marber's screenplay.
  Word has reached my desk that this Talking Sport column is going down a treat in Germany, in Munich to be precise with one Roger Murphy scanning the web-site every week to devour every syllable falling from this table.
  And afterwards Gordon Brown came out and gave a little speech - in which he said not one syllable about the campaign.
  Perhaps it's just that the jurors are taking their mission very seriously and are reviewing every syllable of every bit of the testimony several times over.
  And yet not one syllable has been offered as to what we are going to do to prevent this from happening again.
  They tell me that in spite of what happened, every syllable of my message came through.
  A skilled Dakota farmer (like a Murphy poem) therefore wastes no syllable, no bit of dirt.

verbˈsɪləb(ə)lˈsɪləb(ə)l

[with object]

Pronounce (a word or phrase) clearly, syllable by syllable.
清晰地读（词，句）；一个一个音节地读

Phrases

in words of one syllable

Using very simple language; expressed plainly.
简单明了地；直截了当地
Example sentencesExamples
- Next week I will address you for the last time, and will explain clearly in words of one syllable who all the people are you should spend your time hating.
- But we have frequently been spoken to by experts in words of one syllable.
- We advised you in words of one syllable, and on a number of occasions throughout the meeting that although we wished to increase our activities on behalf of Npower we were unable to do so because of your actions in June and July of 2003.
- He wanted me to reduce deep and complex ideas and issues to sound bites, to explain the meaning of life in words of one syllable.
- I'm not sure how to say it in words of one syllable that you can understand.
- But my experience is that they've got to be in words of one syllable and fit on one side of A4, preferably on one side of A5.
- And if you even begin to understand how the calculation is done, please explain it to me in words of one syllable.
- Assistants need to have everything explained to them slowly in words of one syllable, which helps all of us watching at home work to follow the more twisted technical details of the plot.
- And if there is anyone out there who can help would you explain it to me in words of one syllable?
- Surely there should be a book somewhere explaining all this stuff in words of one syllable for otherwise intelligent adults like me.
Synonyms
understandable, comprehensible, intelligible, easy to understand, plain, direct, uncomplicated, explicit, lucid, perspicuous, coherent, logical, distinct, simple, straightforward, clearly expressed, unambiguous, clear-cut, crystal clear, accessible, user-friendly

Derivatives

syllabled

adjective

usually in combination many-syllabled words
Example sentencesExamples
- He couldn't say any more then a one syllabled word at the moment.
- I wanted to send her a string of multi-syllabled expletives.
- When Coriolanus does speak, it is often with an austere, minimally syllabled, and steely precision.
- Scientists who jabbered on needlessly using five syllabled words had always gotten on his nerves.
- And yet the entire purpose of the exercise would remain lost in the half-baked intellectual stringing together of ten syllabled words.

Origin

Late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French sillabe, via Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- 'together' + lambanein 'take'.

Syllable comes via Old French and Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- ‘together’ and lambanein ‘take’. A syllable is basically a group of sounds ‘taken together’ and uttered with a single effort.

Definition of syllable in US English:

syllable

nounˈsɪləb(ə)lˈsiləb(ə)l

1A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.
音节
Example sentencesExamples
- Unlike Italian, stress is not required for monosyllabic and bisyllabic words; and unlike Spanish, stress is always assigned on the penultimate syllable of multisyllabic words.
- Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables.
- In America, it's commonly said with an ‘o’ sound in the second syllable.
- The Sumerians and Egyptians also used symbols to represent spoken sounds, such as syllables and words.
- There is no news story that cannot be reduced to a word of three syllables, and whole sentences bore us.
- The Elision subtest is a deletion task with the child required to restate a word with either syllables or single sounds omitted from the beginning, middle, or end of the word.
- After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
- This was observed in practice when both teachers, especially Ms. Hernández, prompted students to sound out and decode words by phonemes when syllables could not be quickly identified.
- As children gain more experience with language and with manipulating sounds in words, they can identify the syllables, or the sound chunks, in words.
- Articulation disorders include difficulties producing sounds in syllables or saying words incorrectly to the point that other people can't understand what's being said.
- He tried to focus on the sound, on the syllables and soft vibrations that were forming into words.
- His discussion of iambic pentameter (five stresses to a line, with the stress on the second syllable of each unit) is thorough and contains extensive examples.
- The vowels of the stressed syllables in such words as father and fodder are generally identical.
- Of course, children learning to read any of the alphabetic languages tend to sound out letters and syllables until they recognise first whole words and then groups of words.
- In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text.
- Lexa tried to repeat the name and fumbled over the made-up syllables and vowel sounds thrown in at random.
- This is recommended viewing, even for those of you whose eyes glaze over by the second syllable of the word ‘documentary.’
- The passage is a rather dense one, with 46 syllables, for an relatively high average (for English) of 1.78 syllables / word.
- From a phonetic point of view, Casa is pronounced as the Spanish word ‘casa’, with the emphasis on the first syllable ‘ca’ and a soft and short sound for the second syllable.
- For the stammerer there is a feeling of being out of control and an ensuing repetition of sounds, syllables, words or pauses.
1. 1.1 A character or characters representing a syllable.
  表示音节的符号
  Example sentencesExamples
  Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms.
  As its signs represent native syllables (such as sa and ke), TRANSLITERATION almost invariably produces phonetic change.
  The system consisted mainly of symbols representing open syllables, i.e. consonant-vowel pairs.
  The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables.
2. 1.2usually with negative The least amount of speech or writing; the least mention of something.
  只言片语
  I'd never have breathed a syllable if he'd kept quiet
  如果他当时保持沉默的话，我决不会说一个字的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  All of those can be rationalized or ignored by people who are now going over every syllable Cindy Sheehan utters.
  Fully deserving of every syllable of praise it has received, this album should gain a very healthy cult following. - Mike Hogan
  But just to witness the shocked disbelief on their anal retentive little faces when I do it will be worth every syllable.
  It is a tribute to the fierce talent of Diamond, and the skilful compiling of Dominic Lawson, that in every other syllable of this book the man feels most incredibly alive.
  As the Neanderthal, sex-driven doc, he blazes brilliantly across every frame of the screen, evidently relishing every loaded syllable of Marber's screenplay.
  They conveniently turned the other cheek, when it was no season for weakness, and uttered no syllable under the UNIP government.
  A skilled Dakota farmer (like a Murphy poem) therefore wastes no syllable, no bit of dirt.
  Word has reached my desk that this Talking Sport column is going down a treat in Germany, in Munich to be precise with one Roger Murphy scanning the web-site every week to devour every syllable falling from this table.
  They tell me that in spite of what happened, every syllable of my message came through.
  The storytellers seem to cut loose, the organisers are relaxed and the audience wants to be sure it hears every syllable before the festival ends for another year.
  All in all, she's no David Attenborough (who speaks at the perfect speed, whether you're taking notes or just absorbing every syllable of his beautifully written scripts).
  Perhaps it's just that the jurors are taking their mission very seriously and are reviewing every syllable of every bit of the testimony several times over.
  To get inside Donelly's third solo album, you must surrender, slow down and examine every note and syllable.
  And afterwards Gordon Brown came out and gave a little speech - in which he said not one syllable about the campaign.
  It's a poem that's been subjected to much critical appraisal, analysed and pulled apart, and examined minutely to the very last syllable.
  And yet not one syllable has been offered as to what we are going to do to prevent this from happening again.
  Meanwhile, the Crown is held to account for every syllable uttered, all the while keeping an eye on the allocated budget, which tends to result in asinine decisions to only take to trial cases which are absolute slam dunks.

verbˈsɪləb(ə)lˈsiləb(ə)l

[with object]

Pronounce (a word or phrase) clearly, syllable by syllable.
清晰地读（词，句）；一个一个音节地读

Origin

Late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French sillabe, via Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- ‘together’ + lambanein ‘take’.

词汇	syllable
释义	Definition of syllable in English: syllable noun ˈsɪləb(ə)lˈsɪləb(ə)l 1A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno. 音节 Example sentencesExamples Lexa tried to repeat the name and fumbled over the made-up syllables and vowel sounds thrown in at random. The vowels of the stressed syllables in such words as father and fodder are generally identical. After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences. His discussion of iambic pentameter (five stresses to a line, with the stress on the second syllable of each unit) is thorough and contains extensive examples. The Elision subtest is a deletion task with the child required to restate a word with either syllables or single sounds omitted from the beginning, middle, or end of the word. Of course, children learning to read any of the alphabetic languages tend to sound out letters and syllables until they recognise first whole words and then groups of words. In America, it's commonly said with an ‘o’ sound in the second syllable. There is no news story that cannot be reduced to a word of three syllables, and whole sentences bore us. Unlike Italian, stress is not required for monosyllabic and bisyllabic words; and unlike Spanish, stress is always assigned on the penultimate syllable of multisyllabic words. The Sumerians and Egyptians also used symbols to represent spoken sounds, such as syllables and words. This is recommended viewing, even for those of you whose eyes glaze over by the second syllable of the word ‘documentary.’ From a phonetic point of view, Casa is pronounced as the Spanish word ‘casa’, with the emphasis on the first syllable ‘ca’ and a soft and short sound for the second syllable. This was observed in practice when both teachers, especially Ms. Hernández, prompted students to sound out and decode words by phonemes when syllables could not be quickly identified. In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text. He tried to focus on the sound, on the syllables and soft vibrations that were forming into words. For the stammerer there is a feeling of being out of control and an ensuing repetition of sounds, syllables, words or pauses. Articulation disorders include difficulties producing sounds in syllables or saying words incorrectly to the point that other people can't understand what's being said. The passage is a rather dense one, with 46 syllables, for an relatively high average (for English) of 1.78 syllables / word. As children gain more experience with language and with manipulating sounds in words, they can identify the syllables, or the sound chunks, in words. Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables. 1.1 A character or characters representing a syllable. 表示音节的符号 Example sentencesExamples The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables. Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms. The system consisted mainly of symbols representing open syllables, i.e. consonant-vowel pairs. As its signs represent native syllables (such as sa and ke), TRANSLITERATION almost invariably produces phonetic change. 1.2usually with negative The least amount of speech or writing; the least mention of something. 只言片语 I'd never have breathed a syllable if he'd kept quiet 如果他当时保持沉默的话，我决不会说一个字的。 Example sentencesExamples But just to witness the shocked disbelief on their anal retentive little faces when I do it will be worth every syllable. They conveniently turned the other cheek, when it was no season for weakness, and uttered no syllable under the UNIP government. The storytellers seem to cut loose, the organisers are relaxed and the audience wants to be sure it hears every syllable before the festival ends for another year. To get inside Donelly's third solo album, you must surrender, slow down and examine every note and syllable. It is a tribute to the fierce talent of Diamond, and the skilful compiling of Dominic Lawson, that in every other syllable of this book the man feels most incredibly alive. Fully deserving of every syllable of praise it has received, this album should gain a very healthy cult following. - Mike Hogan It's a poem that's been subjected to much critical appraisal, analysed and pulled apart, and examined minutely to the very last syllable. Meanwhile, the Crown is held to account for every syllable uttered, all the while keeping an eye on the allocated budget, which tends to result in asinine decisions to only take to trial cases which are absolute slam dunks. All of those can be rationalized or ignored by people who are now going over every syllable Cindy Sheehan utters. All in all, she's no David Attenborough (who speaks at the perfect speed, whether you're taking notes or just absorbing every syllable of his beautifully written scripts). As the Neanderthal, sex-driven doc, he blazes brilliantly across every frame of the screen, evidently relishing every loaded syllable of Marber's screenplay. Word has reached my desk that this Talking Sport column is going down a treat in Germany, in Munich to be precise with one Roger Murphy scanning the web-site every week to devour every syllable falling from this table. And afterwards Gordon Brown came out and gave a little speech - in which he said not one syllable about the campaign. Perhaps it's just that the jurors are taking their mission very seriously and are reviewing every syllable of every bit of the testimony several times over. And yet not one syllable has been offered as to what we are going to do to prevent this from happening again. They tell me that in spite of what happened, every syllable of my message came through. A skilled Dakota farmer (like a Murphy poem) therefore wastes no syllable, no bit of dirt. verbˈsɪləb(ə)lˈsɪləb(ə)l [with object] Pronounce (a word or phrase) clearly, syllable by syllable. 清晰地读（词，句）；一个一个音节地读 Phrases in words of one syllable Using very simple language; expressed plainly. 简单明了地；直截了当地 Example sentencesExamples Next week I will address you for the last time, and will explain clearly in words of one syllable who all the people are you should spend your time hating. But we have frequently been spoken to by experts in words of one syllable. We advised you in words of one syllable, and on a number of occasions throughout the meeting that although we wished to increase our activities on behalf of Npower we were unable to do so because of your actions in June and July of 2003. He wanted me to reduce deep and complex ideas and issues to sound bites, to explain the meaning of life in words of one syllable. I'm not sure how to say it in words of one syllable that you can understand. But my experience is that they've got to be in words of one syllable and fit on one side of A4, preferably on one side of A5. And if you even begin to understand how the calculation is done, please explain it to me in words of one syllable. Assistants need to have everything explained to them slowly in words of one syllable, which helps all of us watching at home work to follow the more twisted technical details of the plot. And if there is anyone out there who can help would you explain it to me in words of one syllable? Surely there should be a book somewhere explaining all this stuff in words of one syllable for otherwise intelligent adults like me. Synonyms understandable, comprehensible, intelligible, easy to understand, plain, direct, uncomplicated, explicit, lucid, perspicuous, coherent, logical, distinct, simple, straightforward, clearly expressed, unambiguous, clear-cut, crystal clear, accessible, user-friendly Derivatives syllabled adjective usually in combination many-syllabled words Example sentencesExamples He couldn't say any more then a one syllabled word at the moment. I wanted to send her a string of multi-syllabled expletives. When Coriolanus does speak, it is often with an austere, minimally syllabled, and steely precision. Scientists who jabbered on needlessly using five syllabled words had always gotten on his nerves. And yet the entire purpose of the exercise would remain lost in the half-baked intellectual stringing together of ten syllabled words. Origin Late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French sillabe, via Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- 'together' + lambanein 'take'. Syllable comes via Old French and Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- ‘together’ and lambanein ‘take’. A syllable is basically a group of sounds ‘taken together’ and uttered with a single effort. noun.1 phr. Definition of syllable in US English: syllable nounˈsɪləb(ə)lˈsiləb(ə)l 1A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno. 音节 Example sentencesExamples Unlike Italian, stress is not required for monosyllabic and bisyllabic words; and unlike Spanish, stress is always assigned on the penultimate syllable of multisyllabic words. Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables. In America, it's commonly said with an ‘o’ sound in the second syllable. The Sumerians and Egyptians also used symbols to represent spoken sounds, such as syllables and words. There is no news story that cannot be reduced to a word of three syllables, and whole sentences bore us. The Elision subtest is a deletion task with the child required to restate a word with either syllables or single sounds omitted from the beginning, middle, or end of the word. After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences. This was observed in practice when both teachers, especially Ms. Hernández, prompted students to sound out and decode words by phonemes when syllables could not be quickly identified. As children gain more experience with language and with manipulating sounds in words, they can identify the syllables, or the sound chunks, in words. Articulation disorders include difficulties producing sounds in syllables or saying words incorrectly to the point that other people can't understand what's being said. He tried to focus on the sound, on the syllables and soft vibrations that were forming into words. His discussion of iambic pentameter (five stresses to a line, with the stress on the second syllable of each unit) is thorough and contains extensive examples. The vowels of the stressed syllables in such words as father and fodder are generally identical. Of course, children learning to read any of the alphabetic languages tend to sound out letters and syllables until they recognise first whole words and then groups of words. In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text. Lexa tried to repeat the name and fumbled over the made-up syllables and vowel sounds thrown in at random. This is recommended viewing, even for those of you whose eyes glaze over by the second syllable of the word ‘documentary.’ The passage is a rather dense one, with 46 syllables, for an relatively high average (for English) of 1.78 syllables / word. From a phonetic point of view, Casa is pronounced as the Spanish word ‘casa’, with the emphasis on the first syllable ‘ca’ and a soft and short sound for the second syllable. For the stammerer there is a feeling of being out of control and an ensuing repetition of sounds, syllables, words or pauses. 1.1 A character or characters representing a syllable. 表示音节的符号 Example sentencesExamples Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms. As its signs represent native syllables (such as sa and ke), TRANSLITERATION almost invariably produces phonetic change. The system consisted mainly of symbols representing open syllables, i.e. consonant-vowel pairs. The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables. 1.2usually with negative The least amount of speech or writing; the least mention of something. 只言片语 I'd never have breathed a syllable if he'd kept quiet 如果他当时保持沉默的话，我决不会说一个字的。 Example sentencesExamples All of those can be rationalized or ignored by people who are now going over every syllable Cindy Sheehan utters. Fully deserving of every syllable of praise it has received, this album should gain a very healthy cult following. - Mike Hogan But just to witness the shocked disbelief on their anal retentive little faces when I do it will be worth every syllable. It is a tribute to the fierce talent of Diamond, and the skilful compiling of Dominic Lawson, that in every other syllable of this book the man feels most incredibly alive. As the Neanderthal, sex-driven doc, he blazes brilliantly across every frame of the screen, evidently relishing every loaded syllable of Marber's screenplay. They conveniently turned the other cheek, when it was no season for weakness, and uttered no syllable under the UNIP government. A skilled Dakota farmer (like a Murphy poem) therefore wastes no syllable, no bit of dirt. Word has reached my desk that this Talking Sport column is going down a treat in Germany, in Munich to be precise with one Roger Murphy scanning the web-site every week to devour every syllable falling from this table. They tell me that in spite of what happened, every syllable of my message came through. The storytellers seem to cut loose, the organisers are relaxed and the audience wants to be sure it hears every syllable before the festival ends for another year. All in all, she's no David Attenborough (who speaks at the perfect speed, whether you're taking notes or just absorbing every syllable of his beautifully written scripts). Perhaps it's just that the jurors are taking their mission very seriously and are reviewing every syllable of every bit of the testimony several times over. To get inside Donelly's third solo album, you must surrender, slow down and examine every note and syllable. And afterwards Gordon Brown came out and gave a little speech - in which he said not one syllable about the campaign. It's a poem that's been subjected to much critical appraisal, analysed and pulled apart, and examined minutely to the very last syllable. And yet not one syllable has been offered as to what we are going to do to prevent this from happening again. Meanwhile, the Crown is held to account for every syllable uttered, all the while keeping an eye on the allocated budget, which tends to result in asinine decisions to only take to trial cases which are absolute slam dunks. verbˈsɪləb(ə)lˈsiləb(ə)l [with object] Pronounce (a word or phrase) clearly, syllable by syllable. 清晰地读（词，句）；一个一个音节地读 Origin Late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French sillabe, via Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- ‘together’ + lambanein ‘take’.
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