喜樂美語

One way to picture it: pressing harder on one spot. When you say "I said MONDAY", you push extra breath into that one word and it lifts out of the sentence. Print can do the same job with bold or . Everything else stays where it was; one part is simply given more force so it stands out.

可以想成把力氣特別壓在某一個點上。你說 I said MONDAY 的時候，那個字用了比較多的氣，它就從整句話裡凸出來；印刷用粗體或斜體也是同一件事。其他部分都沒變，只是有一處被加了力道，所以特別看得見。emphasis 講抽象的「重視」時，用的也是這個畫面——只是這次被加重的不是一個音，而是一件事。

同家族的字

複數 emphases

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

emphasisnoun/ˈɛmfəsɪs/

  • 1

    Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.

    • He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
  • 2

    Special attention or prominence given to something.

    • Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
    • Put emphasis on the advantages rather than the drawbacks.
  • 3

    Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.

    • He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
  • 4

    human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyThe phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.

  • 5

    mediapublishingtypographyThe use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。