vowels

英 [ˈvaʊəlz]

美 [ˈvaʊəlz]

n.  元音; 元音字母
vowel的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 元音
  Avowelis a sound such as the ones represented in writing by the letters 'a', 'e' 'i', 'o' and 'u', which you pronounce with your mouth open, allowing the air to flow through it.
  1. The vowel in words like 'my' and 'thigh' is not very difficult.
     单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。
  2. ...English vowel sounds.
     英语中的元音

双语例句

• Inventor Butts's favourite variation is double bag Scrabble, with the vowels and consonants in separate bags.
  发明人伯茨最喜欢的变化是双袋法，即把元音和辅音放在两个不同的口袋里。
• Now, another feature of this British accent is that we have different vowels for hot and dog than we do in talk and law.
  这种英国口音的另一个特征是，我们说hot和dog时比说talk和law时元音发音的区别更大。
• A feature of this type should be the number of vowels that the word contains.
  这种类型的特征之一应该是单词包含的元音数。
• The Great Vowel Shift ( GVS), starting from the14th century, impacted the English vowels significantly.
  其中起始于十四世纪的元音大推移现象对于英语元音的演变起到了深远的影响。
• The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.
  连续的词语中的重读音节重复相同的元音。
• Reduced vowels are often undetected if you're not accustomed to listening for short vowel sounds.
  如果你不习惯听短元音的话，那些已弱化的元音是不容易被察觉的。
• Spaces are not used to separate words, and vowels appear before and after, under and over consonants.
  单词间不用空格分隔，元音可能表示在辅音的前或后，以及上方或下方。
• There are both similarities and differences in the collocation of consonants and vowels between Beiliu dialect and Putonghua.
  北流白话与普通话的声韵配合关系既有相同之处，也有不同之处。
• The English vowels/ I:/ and/ u:/ are close.
  英语元音中的/i：/和/u：/是闭元音。
• As non-native speakers, you must memorize along with the vowels and consonants.
  作为母语非汉语的人，那你就等着不停地去死记那些元音辅音吧。