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Definition of accent in English: accentnoun ˈaksɛntˈaks(ə)ntˈækˌsɛnt 1A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class. （某特定国家、地区或社会阶层的）口音；腔调 很重的美国口音。 she never mastered the French accent 她从未掌握过法国本地音。 Example sentencesExamples - Their accent depends on social class and region of the country from which they came.
- Fraudsters may have ‘upper class' accents and a Mayfair address but the lines are the same.
- I heard my dad struggle with the pronunciation, trying to add on an Italian accent along with the words and couldn't hold back a giggle.
- His lilting Anglo-Indian accent had the cadences of a lyre.
- And is there anywhere in the world with a greater diversity of accents than London?
- It is odd, yet moving, to hear Lechner singing the English translations of German texts with a thick German accent.
- His lilting Irish accent was lovely; I could have listened to it all night.
- But I don't care that he's really got an upper class accent.
- Some individuals can also change their dialects to a limited extent in terms of accent, pronunciation, and vocabulary.
- The conversation veered towards language and accents.
- The incident highlighted a typically British obsession with accent and social class and reminded Scots that in some circles their more robust accents are considered a sign of aggression.
- The very sound of her voice, with that lovely lilting accent, warmed him.
- She answered in her soft, lilting Irish accent.
- When actors baulked at speaking lines in a foreign language - or their accents were execrable - native-speakers were brought in to play the parts.
- The melange of languages and accents was as varied as the faces.
- The annual meeting of China's legislature is a jamboree of regional accents and languages.
- All TV announcers had unbelievable upper class accents.
- As for the impact of popular culture, Kay says that the evidence isn't so much that TV levels out language, but that strong regional accents from all over Britain seem to be thriving.
- Primarily, however, I notice the sheer multiplicity of accents, languages and ethnic types jostling for space in those sweaty Tube carriages.
- But the five Americans also manage highly creditable regional or class accents.
- Type in whatever you want into the text box, and it'll read it out in an eerily realistic human voice. You can even pick male or female voices and a few different languages or accents.
- Since colonial times a strong Australian accent has been associated with lower class and broad comic characters.
- The moment he started speaking in that melodious voice with its slightly lilting accent and almost perfect enunciation she was lost in its music.
- His voice still carried the thick, Hungarian accent, once incomprehensible, now familiar though still mysterious.
- The whole country was a mixture of different languages and accents back then, especially in the rural areas.
- I detected a strong British accent in her voice.
- However, differences in dialect consist primarily of slight differences in accent or pronunciation and minor grammatical usages.
- Again, this contrasts sharply with the experience of middle class children who invariably speak fluent English, and with the accent of their locality.
- After reading, judges check on their pronunciation, accent, posture and eye contact.
- I love the fact that she sings English with a real American accent and convinces you very much like a great pop singer does, entering into the drama of the poem.
- Yet, although we share the same language, English accents still confuse the locals.
- With some exceptions, strong regional or Spanish accents are associated with working-class status.
- And a beautiful thing, for me, was that most spoke with foreign accents and in foreign languages.
- It is believed he was British but the suspect spoke in a Patois accent, the accent of Caribbean street language.
- Even press reports of his first year in Cincinnati commented on his perfect English accent.
- Certainly, you can move away from a religious culture in which you were brought up in much the same way that one can change one's accent, or mode of dress.
- Mass-media broadcasters spoke in the accents of the upper classes.
- Young Frank in particular has a classic southern accent and pronunciation.
- Most pirates of British origin would thus have had this distinctive accent.
- ‘Some people with working class or regional accents are not getting the chances they deserve and that is a waste,’ she says.
Synonyms pronunciation, intonation, enunciation, elocution, articulation, inflection, tone, modulation, cadence, timbre, utterance, manner of speaking, speech pattern, speech, diction, delivery brogue, burr, drawl, twang rare orthoepy 2A distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch. 重音 the accent falls on the middle syllable Example sentencesExamples - In Samoan words all syllables are given equal timing with a slight accent placed on the penultimate syllable.
- TO-mah-to, they called them in Calcutta, with the accent on the first syllable, making no distinction between singular or plural.
- Mania, they were told, is simply the Italian translation of the word obsession, and anyway it's pronounced with the accent on the second syllable.
- Furthermore, the narrator speaks with the words, accents, and intonations of Golyadkin himself.
- In all but parts of eastern Slovakia, the stress is on the first syllable of a word; longer words (three or more syllables) have secondary accents.
- Falimako is pronounced FA-li-ma-ko with the accent on the FA.
- Also, the accent should be on the second syllable: a-SAH-a-na.
- And when the British crossed the Atlantic and the accent shifted from a to e, all the vowels shifted along one position, e i o u a.
- These aren't imported words with genuine umlauts, but retrospective accents denoting a junked hyphen as in microorganisms or coordinated.
Synonyms stress, emphasis, accentuation, force, prominence primary stress, secondary stress beat, rhythm, pulse technical tone, ictus - 2.1 A mark on a letter, typically a vowel, to indicate pitch, stress, or vowel quality.
重音符号 Example sentencesExamples - Elegant accent marks can make any typical product name sound like a shimmering diamond mined from the fertile bowls of the finest dragon filled cave.
- It's a neat trick to have a way to spell words containing both nasalization and crucially important tone without any accents or funny letters.
- The Soviet Russia template has an interesting linguistic aspect: the paired contrastive accents that indicate role reversal.
- The spelling is fundamentally phonetic and the stress falls on the next to last syllable unless indicted by an accent mark.
- After all, people who write in these languages on a computer want to use the correct accent marks.
- Little accents, little umlauts, tiny apostrophes like snowflakes sting her cheeks.
- I don't think I grasped much of the concept of where to place accents in the Spanish language, but oh well.
- FYI - I had to leave out some of the accent marks on some of the Spanish words.
- Modern Greek also retains from the ancient language a system of three pitch accents (acute, circumflex, grave).
- Why do the normal keyboard letter combinations for eg French accents not work in comments boxes?
- The accents and other diacritical marks we now use to write ancient Greek are comparatively late inventions.
Synonyms mark, diacritic, diacritical mark, accent mark, sign - 2.2Music An emphasis on a particular note or chord.
〔乐〕（音符或和音的）重音 Example sentencesExamples - Syncopated staccato accents gradually drop into place on top of an extended droning chord.
- In the second to last bar of ‘Purgatorio’, Mahler wrote a chord B E-G plus an accent.
- Tempos tend to be driving, and accents tend to be emphatic, strengthening the similarities between Schumann and Beethoven.
- Moravec takes the opening of the first in a way that connects with Bartók's piano dances, with shifting accents.
- Similarly the trumpet/xylophone guy did some well-placed accents throughout, weaving his notes into the fabric of the music.
- He might land his hardest accent in the middle of a triplet of notes, or rustle the snare and tom-tom drums with his sticks the way others brush the ride and high-hat cymbals.
- The meter, complexity of rhythms created by dotted rhythms, triplets and irregular accents manifest the spirit of Korean peasant dance and music.
- Rachmaninoff indicates that the tenor carries the melody by placing accents over each of its notes.
- The weight came from accents and the interpretation's fire, not from thick orchestral playing or slow tempos.
- There are sharp pizzicato accents everywhere, and once again, leave it to David Finckel to look like he is having the time of his life.
- Sir John Barbirolli in rehearsal with the Hallé Orchestra, with subtly weighted accents on the first beat of each note group in the strings, is not to be ignored.
- The rich tone and strong accents of Gabriel Beavers's solo bassoon were striking.
- The displacement of the normal musical accent from a strong beat to a weak one.
- By contrast, the three-beat group is subdivided as a hemiola with accents falling on beat 1 and the second half of beat 2.
- Or consider the college piano student, carefully groomed to taper each Mozartean phrase just so, and deliver sharp accents in Bartok.
- The composer's intentions may be notated as dots, dashes, accents, and slurs.
- Riemann published editions of standard keyboard works in which agogic accents were marked with the sign ^.
- The use of unpredictable accents also can add to the rhythmic complexity of a musical work.
- Some of these have involved minutely detailed descriptions of snare drum accents and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie rhythms.
- As in the accented baseline condition, the two kinds of accents emphasized the same tones.
3in singular A special or particular emphasis. 注重，强调 the accent is on participation 重要的是参与。 Example sentencesExamples - Again, this was simple food with the accent upon quality ingredients and a desire to avoid over-elaboration.
- Moreover, they put the accent on the spiritual values connected with youth, rather than on age.
- The accent was on humour and song, and a patriotic theme was introduced for Coronation year.
- Small schools have sprung up all over the country, laying accent on the quality of the relationship between teacher and student.
- The accent is on natural materials - wood and stone.
- The accent therefore had to fall on external action by the state, but of itself this did not require immediate and exact foreign policy choices.
- The accent is on comfort rather than sportiness and its no coincidence that it looks like an S-Class that shrunk in the wash.
- Though there are sections on Welsh and Greek, the accent is on French, German, Spanish and Italian, each of which has a 24-lesson course attached.
- Last week I lamented the lack of tries in our now defence-dominated game, what with the accent on specialist prevention coaching.
- The accent is on making learning an enjoyable experience. ‘Look, understand, absorb and learn’ is the new mantra.
- This idea was imposed by Western nations' heavy accent on democracy as the almighty and foremost value.
- There was a mismatch between theory and understanding, when the accent should have been on continuous learning.
- Instead, the accent is on improving business attitudes, leaving consumers with the impression that once again profit is being put before safety.
- The accent is on creating a simulated environment for the customer to feel at home.
- The accent is on winning and making money, not developing New Zealand talent.
- The main accent falls on the significance of Christ's action, and the explication of sin through the figure of Adam serves to clarify this significance.
- The toys appear to be high-quality, and the accent is on educational products.
- For the moment, though, the accent is on celebration.
- The accent of the speech however, fell on the steps being taken by the government to reverse these social ills.
- Computer dealers are finding that even machines that were considered ‘high end’ are being snapped up for use at home with the accent on value for money.
Synonyms emphasis, stress, priority importance, prominence - 3.1 A feature which gives a distinctive visual emphasis to something.
（增强视觉效果的）高光 blue woodwork and accents of red 蓝色木工制品和红色的高光。 Example sentencesExamples - A few plum accents can bring in a note of elegance to any room; try a throw pillow or two, or a plum lampshade with a fringe?
- If you're using chives as a visual accent, just sprinkle a few over whatever you're accenting.
- She refused to meet his gaze, eyes resting instead on the gold accent of his navy blue coat, or the thick leather belt still decorating his broad chest.
- A key ingredient in almost every successful colour scheme is the inclusion of just two main colours and an accent colour, so be disciplined in your choices.
- Bright red is a bold accent in clusters of anemones and candy canes.
- In the typical mix of femininity and sporty styling, such accents emphasize a modern femininity.
- After a tour of five hotels in Lakes towns from Keswick to Coniston his recommendation is to inject a regional accent into the decor to get more guests to the check-in desks.
- Ottomans can carry an accent colour, or add texture and thereby lift the look of a room.
- It is all about layering the textures and then maybe adding an accent colour to spice it up a bit.
verb akˈsɛntˈækˌsɛnt [with object]1Emphasize (a particular feature) 强调，突出 fabrics which accent the background colours in the room 衬托房内背景色调的织物。 Example sentencesExamples - Victoria blushed, causing Eagan to smile for a moment; she looked as cute as always, a blush so easily brought to her cheeks accenting her color.
- So my thought was to replace the flower over-abundance with a solid blue color to accent the nice yellow, by whatever means was the easiest and best way to accomplish this task.
- You can accent a room's feature - such as a pipe or post - by painting it a different color from the rest of the room or de-emphasize it by painting it the same color.
- He had a certain smug look as the setting sun accented his facial features and bathed the luxurious office in shades of red and gold light.
- She had Egyptian features, which were accented by the mascara she was wearing and her honey-colored eyes.
- The mystique surrounding Cirque du Soleil is accented by the wonderment the show evokes from the audience.
- Brown curls that framed his fragile features and accented his crystalline red-hazel eyes.
- A tent sized mu-mu - hot orange and pink, accenting the contours of her big, round belly.
- We all look to you to accent the positives and help us to eradicate the more negative events, and mostly you do achieve this.
- In consequence they strove to accent the competitive element and eliminate any attempt at showboating at every opportunity.
- Following lunch the shimmering afternoon sun warmed the shoulders, and accented the floral colours of the pleasure garden and the verdant fruitfulness of the walled organic garden.
- In both cases, cobalt blue was used to accent certain elements including the bells, the man's shoes, shirt, and hat, and the cantons of the flags.
- Make art the focal point of your living room by accenting it with halogen spotlights.
- She shrugged off her wet robe and pulled on a new one that seemed to accent her dark features even more.
- It seemed to be just Helen's size, and the color perfectly accented her light brown hair.
- His angular features were accented by a short bristly goatee, and a single black curl fell on his forehead.
- His pale features were accented by his ebony hair.
- She was dressed in a red gown, with a tight bodice that accented her womanly features.
- Dark hair and even darker eyes accented his pale features and an amused smile touched his thin lips.
- The different vibrant and funky colours and ‘intelligent’ lighting perfectly accent the curtain wall and a high ceiling.
Synonyms focus attention on, bring/call/draw attention to, point up, underline, underscore, accentuate, highlight, spotlight, foreground, feature, give prominence to, make more prominent, make more noticeable, play up, bring to the fore, heighten, stress, emphasize, put/lay emphasis on - 1.1Music Play (a note or beat) with emphasis.
〔乐〕以重音演奏 the quick tempo means there is less scope for accenting offbeat notes Example sentencesExamples - She accented every note just-short of perfectly, fading her voice before a few high notes and before an emphasized verse to add to the atmosphere of the song.
- The strings are used only to accent the melody, and any misgivings are quickly redeemed by yet another amazing guitar solo.
- ‘Golden Twig’ finds the group sliding easily into a lazily bouncy groove, with twangy guitars accenting a steady up-and-down lilt.
- The opera diva could accent a single word, like ‘ma’ in Rosina's aria in The Barber of Seville.
- Their drummer seemed to be half asleep because he missed a dozen beats key beats that were supposed to accent the vocals.
- ‘Tsuginepu to ittemita’ is a good example of this, a tone poem for a female voice and tabla, the tabla accenting every syllable, accompanied by a gently chiming Japanese melody.
- Axis and Alignment is a jazz tapestry accented by intricate minimalist patterns and incredibly fluid changes, a perpetually shifting sonic picture of gentle enlightenment.
- The Latin rhythms of ‘Canzonetta Spangnuola’ were accented with flair and joy.
- The first verse is followed by a short chorus, where the piano doubles the melody with the synth accenting the first note.
- Kamiyama floats gorgeous shimmering melodies that fade in and out of the background, and synth squiggles periodically accent the rhythm.
- Double-time blast beats are accented by equally furious ‘breakdowns’ and searing vocals, but it's all done without coming across like it was as butchered as their song subjects.
- Ungerleider's sparse guitar style was accented with long bass solos.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'intonation'): from Latin accentus 'tone, signal, or intensity' (from ad- 'to' + cantus 'song'), translating Greek prosōidia 'a song sung to music, intonation'. English distinguishes the different parts or syllables of a word by stressing one of them, but the ancient Greeks pronounced them with a distinct difference in musical pitch. Syllables marked with a grave accent (for example à, from Latin gravis ‘heavy, serious’) were spoken at a comparatively low pitch, those with an acute (á, from Latin acutus ‘sharp, high’) at a higher pitch, and those with a circumflex (â, from Latin circumflexus, ‘bent around’) began at the higher pitch and descended during the pronunciation of the syllable. This gives some explanation of why the root of accent is Latin cantus ‘song’, which was a direct translation of the Greek word prosōidia (source of prosody (Late Middle English) ‘versification’). Quite a few languages (technically known as ‘tonal’ languages) still have this musical way of speaking, among them Chinese and Swedish.
Rhymesabsent, anent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, content, dent, event, extent, ferment, foment, forewent, forwent, frequent, gent, Ghent, Gwent, lament, leant, lent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, outwent, pent, percent, pigment, rent, scent, segment, sent, spent, stent, Stoke-on-Trent, Tashkent, tent, torment, Trent, underspent, underwent, vent, went Definition of accent in US English: accentnounˈækˌsɛnt 1A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. （某特定国家、地区或社会阶层的）口音；腔调 很重的美国口音。 she never mastered the French accent 她从未掌握过法国本地音。 Example sentencesExamples - Mass-media broadcasters spoke in the accents of the upper classes.
- Primarily, however, I notice the sheer multiplicity of accents, languages and ethnic types jostling for space in those sweaty Tube carriages.
- As for the impact of popular culture, Kay says that the evidence isn't so much that TV levels out language, but that strong regional accents from all over Britain seem to be thriving.
- The melange of languages and accents was as varied as the faces.
- Yet, although we share the same language, English accents still confuse the locals.
- ‘Some people with working class or regional accents are not getting the chances they deserve and that is a waste,’ she says.
- But the five Americans also manage highly creditable regional or class accents.
- I love the fact that she sings English with a real American accent and convinces you very much like a great pop singer does, entering into the drama of the poem.
- The incident highlighted a typically British obsession with accent and social class and reminded Scots that in some circles their more robust accents are considered a sign of aggression.
- When actors baulked at speaking lines in a foreign language - or their accents were execrable - native-speakers were brought in to play the parts.
- Again, this contrasts sharply with the experience of middle class children who invariably speak fluent English, and with the accent of their locality.
- Type in whatever you want into the text box, and it'll read it out in an eerily realistic human voice. You can even pick male or female voices and a few different languages or accents.
- Even press reports of his first year in Cincinnati commented on his perfect English accent.
- His lilting Anglo-Indian accent had the cadences of a lyre.
- All TV announcers had unbelievable upper class accents.
- The whole country was a mixture of different languages and accents back then, especially in the rural areas.
- Certainly, you can move away from a religious culture in which you were brought up in much the same way that one can change one's accent, or mode of dress.
- I detected a strong British accent in her voice.
- The annual meeting of China's legislature is a jamboree of regional accents and languages.
- The moment he started speaking in that melodious voice with its slightly lilting accent and almost perfect enunciation she was lost in its music.
- His voice still carried the thick, Hungarian accent, once incomprehensible, now familiar though still mysterious.
- I heard my dad struggle with the pronunciation, trying to add on an Italian accent along with the words and couldn't hold back a giggle.
- It is odd, yet moving, to hear Lechner singing the English translations of German texts with a thick German accent.
- Most pirates of British origin would thus have had this distinctive accent.
- But I don't care that he's really got an upper class accent.
- It is believed he was British but the suspect spoke in a Patois accent, the accent of Caribbean street language.
- Some individuals can also change their dialects to a limited extent in terms of accent, pronunciation, and vocabulary.
- After reading, judges check on their pronunciation, accent, posture and eye contact.
- The very sound of her voice, with that lovely lilting accent, warmed him.
- Young Frank in particular has a classic southern accent and pronunciation.
- His lilting Irish accent was lovely; I could have listened to it all night.
- Fraudsters may have ‘upper class' accents and a Mayfair address but the lines are the same.
- She answered in her soft, lilting Irish accent.
- The conversation veered towards language and accents.
- With some exceptions, strong regional or Spanish accents are associated with working-class status.
- However, differences in dialect consist primarily of slight differences in accent or pronunciation and minor grammatical usages.
- Since colonial times a strong Australian accent has been associated with lower class and broad comic characters.
- And is there anywhere in the world with a greater diversity of accents than London?
- And a beautiful thing, for me, was that most spoke with foreign accents and in foreign languages.
- Their accent depends on social class and region of the country from which they came.
Synonyms pronunciation, intonation, enunciation, elocution, articulation, inflection, tone, modulation, cadence, timbre, utterance, manner of speaking, speech pattern, speech, diction, delivery 2A distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch. 重音 Example sentencesExamples - And when the British crossed the Atlantic and the accent shifted from a to e, all the vowels shifted along one position, e i o u a.
- In all but parts of eastern Slovakia, the stress is on the first syllable of a word; longer words (three or more syllables) have secondary accents.
- Also, the accent should be on the second syllable: a-SAH-a-na.
- In Samoan words all syllables are given equal timing with a slight accent placed on the penultimate syllable.
- TO-mah-to, they called them in Calcutta, with the accent on the first syllable, making no distinction between singular or plural.
- Furthermore, the narrator speaks with the words, accents, and intonations of Golyadkin himself.
- Mania, they were told, is simply the Italian translation of the word obsession, and anyway it's pronounced with the accent on the second syllable.
- Falimako is pronounced FA-li-ma-ko with the accent on the FA.
- These aren't imported words with genuine umlauts, but retrospective accents denoting a junked hyphen as in microorganisms or coordinated.
Synonyms stress, emphasis, accentuation, force, prominence - 2.1 A mark on a letter, typically a vowel, to indicate pitch, stress, or vowel quality.
重音符号 Example sentencesExamples - The accents and other diacritical marks we now use to write ancient Greek are comparatively late inventions.
- I don't think I grasped much of the concept of where to place accents in the Spanish language, but oh well.
- The Soviet Russia template has an interesting linguistic aspect: the paired contrastive accents that indicate role reversal.
- FYI - I had to leave out some of the accent marks on some of the Spanish words.
- Modern Greek also retains from the ancient language a system of three pitch accents (acute, circumflex, grave).
- It's a neat trick to have a way to spell words containing both nasalization and crucially important tone without any accents or funny letters.
- Elegant accent marks can make any typical product name sound like a shimmering diamond mined from the fertile bowls of the finest dragon filled cave.
- Little accents, little umlauts, tiny apostrophes like snowflakes sting her cheeks.
- After all, people who write in these languages on a computer want to use the correct accent marks.
- Why do the normal keyboard letter combinations for eg French accents not work in comments boxes?
- The spelling is fundamentally phonetic and the stress falls on the next to last syllable unless indicted by an accent mark.
Synonyms mark, diacritic, diacritical mark, accent mark, sign - 2.2Music An emphasis on a particular note or chord.
〔乐〕（音符或和音的）重音 Example sentencesExamples - Moravec takes the opening of the first in a way that connects with Bartók's piano dances, with shifting accents.
- Syncopated staccato accents gradually drop into place on top of an extended droning chord.
- Sir John Barbirolli in rehearsal with the Hallé Orchestra, with subtly weighted accents on the first beat of each note group in the strings, is not to be ignored.
- By contrast, the three-beat group is subdivided as a hemiola with accents falling on beat 1 and the second half of beat 2.
- Some of these have involved minutely detailed descriptions of snare drum accents and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie rhythms.
- There are sharp pizzicato accents everywhere, and once again, leave it to David Finckel to look like he is having the time of his life.
- The weight came from accents and the interpretation's fire, not from thick orchestral playing or slow tempos.
- Riemann published editions of standard keyboard works in which agogic accents were marked with the sign ^.
- He might land his hardest accent in the middle of a triplet of notes, or rustle the snare and tom-tom drums with his sticks the way others brush the ride and high-hat cymbals.
- As in the accented baseline condition, the two kinds of accents emphasized the same tones.
- The composer's intentions may be notated as dots, dashes, accents, and slurs.
- In the second to last bar of ‘Purgatorio’, Mahler wrote a chord B E-G plus an accent.
- The displacement of the normal musical accent from a strong beat to a weak one.
- The use of unpredictable accents also can add to the rhythmic complexity of a musical work.
- The rich tone and strong accents of Gabriel Beavers's solo bassoon were striking.
- Tempos tend to be driving, and accents tend to be emphatic, strengthening the similarities between Schumann and Beethoven.
- The meter, complexity of rhythms created by dotted rhythms, triplets and irregular accents manifest the spirit of Korean peasant dance and music.
- Rachmaninoff indicates that the tenor carries the melody by placing accents over each of its notes.
- Or consider the college piano student, carefully groomed to taper each Mozartean phrase just so, and deliver sharp accents in Bartok.
- Similarly the trumpet/xylophone guy did some well-placed accents throughout, weaving his notes into the fabric of the music.
3in singular A special or particular emphasis. 注重，强调 the accent is on participation 重要的是参与。 Example sentencesExamples - The accent therefore had to fall on external action by the state, but of itself this did not require immediate and exact foreign policy choices.
- The accent is on creating a simulated environment for the customer to feel at home.
- Again, this was simple food with the accent upon quality ingredients and a desire to avoid over-elaboration.
- Moreover, they put the accent on the spiritual values connected with youth, rather than on age.
- The accent is on comfort rather than sportiness and its no coincidence that it looks like an S-Class that shrunk in the wash.
- Last week I lamented the lack of tries in our now defence-dominated game, what with the accent on specialist prevention coaching.
- There was a mismatch between theory and understanding, when the accent should have been on continuous learning.
- The toys appear to be high-quality, and the accent is on educational products.
- Though there are sections on Welsh and Greek, the accent is on French, German, Spanish and Italian, each of which has a 24-lesson course attached.
- Small schools have sprung up all over the country, laying accent on the quality of the relationship between teacher and student.
- The accent is on making learning an enjoyable experience. ‘Look, understand, absorb and learn’ is the new mantra.
- The accent is on winning and making money, not developing New Zealand talent.
- The accent is on natural materials - wood and stone.
- Instead, the accent is on improving business attitudes, leaving consumers with the impression that once again profit is being put before safety.
- The accent of the speech however, fell on the steps being taken by the government to reverse these social ills.
- The main accent falls on the significance of Christ's action, and the explication of sin through the figure of Adam serves to clarify this significance.
- This idea was imposed by Western nations' heavy accent on democracy as the almighty and foremost value.
- Computer dealers are finding that even machines that were considered ‘high end’ are being snapped up for use at home with the accent on value for money.
- For the moment, though, the accent is on celebration.
- The accent was on humour and song, and a patriotic theme was introduced for Coronation year.
Synonyms emphasis, stress, priority - 3.1 A feature which gives a distinctive visual emphasis to something.
（增强视觉效果的）高光 blue woodwork and accents of red 蓝色木工制品和红色的高光。 Example sentencesExamples - If you're using chives as a visual accent, just sprinkle a few over whatever you're accenting.
- A few plum accents can bring in a note of elegance to any room; try a throw pillow or two, or a plum lampshade with a fringe?
- In the typical mix of femininity and sporty styling, such accents emphasize a modern femininity.
- After a tour of five hotels in Lakes towns from Keswick to Coniston his recommendation is to inject a regional accent into the decor to get more guests to the check-in desks.
- She refused to meet his gaze, eyes resting instead on the gold accent of his navy blue coat, or the thick leather belt still decorating his broad chest.
- It is all about layering the textures and then maybe adding an accent colour to spice it up a bit.
- A key ingredient in almost every successful colour scheme is the inclusion of just two main colours and an accent colour, so be disciplined in your choices.
- Bright red is a bold accent in clusters of anemones and candy canes.
- Ottomans can carry an accent colour, or add texture and thereby lift the look of a room.
verbˈækˌsɛnt [with object]1Emphasize (a particular feature) 强调，突出 fabrics that accent the background colors in the room 衬托房内背景色调的织物。 Example sentencesExamples - We all look to you to accent the positives and help us to eradicate the more negative events, and mostly you do achieve this.
- In consequence they strove to accent the competitive element and eliminate any attempt at showboating at every opportunity.
- His angular features were accented by a short bristly goatee, and a single black curl fell on his forehead.
- She had Egyptian features, which were accented by the mascara she was wearing and her honey-colored eyes.
- Make art the focal point of your living room by accenting it with halogen spotlights.
- So my thought was to replace the flower over-abundance with a solid blue color to accent the nice yellow, by whatever means was the easiest and best way to accomplish this task.
- Victoria blushed, causing Eagan to smile for a moment; she looked as cute as always, a blush so easily brought to her cheeks accenting her color.
- In both cases, cobalt blue was used to accent certain elements including the bells, the man's shoes, shirt, and hat, and the cantons of the flags.
- It seemed to be just Helen's size, and the color perfectly accented her light brown hair.
- Dark hair and even darker eyes accented his pale features and an amused smile touched his thin lips.
- A tent sized mu-mu - hot orange and pink, accenting the contours of her big, round belly.
- You can accent a room's feature - such as a pipe or post - by painting it a different color from the rest of the room or de-emphasize it by painting it the same color.
- He had a certain smug look as the setting sun accented his facial features and bathed the luxurious office in shades of red and gold light.
- His pale features were accented by his ebony hair.
- The mystique surrounding Cirque du Soleil is accented by the wonderment the show evokes from the audience.
- She was dressed in a red gown, with a tight bodice that accented her womanly features.
- The different vibrant and funky colours and ‘intelligent’ lighting perfectly accent the curtain wall and a high ceiling.
- She shrugged off her wet robe and pulled on a new one that seemed to accent her dark features even more.
- Following lunch the shimmering afternoon sun warmed the shoulders, and accented the floral colours of the pleasure garden and the verdant fruitfulness of the walled organic garden.
- Brown curls that framed his fragile features and accented his crystalline red-hazel eyes.
Synonyms focus attention on, bring attention to, call attention to, draw attention to, point up, underline, underscore, accentuate, highlight, spotlight, foreground, feature, give prominence to, make more prominent, make more noticeable, play up, bring to the fore, heighten, stress, emphasize, lay emphasis on, put emphasis on - 1.1Music Play (a note, a beat of the bar, etc.) with an accent.
Example sentencesExamples - Kamiyama floats gorgeous shimmering melodies that fade in and out of the background, and synth squiggles periodically accent the rhythm.
- The strings are used only to accent the melody, and any misgivings are quickly redeemed by yet another amazing guitar solo.
- The opera diva could accent a single word, like ‘ma’ in Rosina's aria in The Barber of Seville.
- Their drummer seemed to be half asleep because he missed a dozen beats key beats that were supposed to accent the vocals.
- ‘Tsuginepu to ittemita’ is a good example of this, a tone poem for a female voice and tabla, the tabla accenting every syllable, accompanied by a gently chiming Japanese melody.
- The first verse is followed by a short chorus, where the piano doubles the melody with the synth accenting the first note.
- ‘Golden Twig’ finds the group sliding easily into a lazily bouncy groove, with twangy guitars accenting a steady up-and-down lilt.
- She accented every note just-short of perfectly, fading her voice before a few high notes and before an emphasized verse to add to the atmosphere of the song.
- The Latin rhythms of ‘Canzonetta Spangnuola’ were accented with flair and joy.
- Double-time blast beats are accented by equally furious ‘breakdowns’ and searing vocals, but it's all done without coming across like it was as butchered as their song subjects.
- Axis and Alignment is a jazz tapestry accented by intricate minimalist patterns and incredibly fluid changes, a perpetually shifting sonic picture of gentle enlightenment.
- Ungerleider's sparse guitar style was accented with long bass solos.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense ‘intonation’): from Latin accentus ‘tone, signal, or intensity’ (from ad- ‘to’ + cantus ‘song’), translating Greek prosōidia ‘a song sung to music, intonation’. |