| 释义 |
vowel/ˈvaʊəl/n. 1 a speech sound made with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction, more open than a consonant and capable of forming a syllable 元音 2 a letter or letters representing this, as a, e, i, o, u, aw, ah 元音字母 □ vowelled adj. (US [美] voweled) (also in comb. 亦用于复合词)□ vowelless adj.□ vowelly adj.[Middle English via Old French vouel, voiel from Latin vocalis (littera) ‘VOCAL (letter)’] |