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syll.a.ble5sIl7E7b6n [C]a single unit of speech, either a whole word or one of the parts into which a word is separated when it is spoken or divided when it is printed.It usually contains a vowel.音节There are two syllables in the word 'silver'and three in 'appetite'. Silver一词有两个音节，appetite一词有三个音节。In the word 'particular', the stress falls on the second syllable. Particular一词的重音在第二个音节上。(fig.) "It's three months since the argument and you still haven't spoken to each other?""Not one syllable! (= No, we haven't said anything to each other!)"“自你们吵架到现在已经三个月了，你们还是互不理睬吗？”“对，半句话也没说！”[DISYLLABIC, MONOSYLLABIC, POLYSYLLABIC.]
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