| 单词 | penultimate |
| 释义 | penultimate adjective[before noun] formaluk/pəˈnʌl.tɪ.mət/us/pɪˈnʌl.t̬ə.mət/second from the last: 倒数第二的It's the penultimateepisodeof theseriestonight.今晚播出的是这部电视连续剧的倒数第二集。 Order and sequence - general words
Examplesofpenultimatepenultimate Thepenultimatestage involves the processing of olfactory stimuli. From theCambridge English Corpus Thispenultimatesection of the article deals first with the anomalies in the existing evidence and then with the question of prediction. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead, there is a predictable process by which thepenultimatevowel of a phonological phrase becomes lengthened. From theCambridge English Corpus The significant duration difference between closedpenultimateand other closed syllables is somewhat surprising. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, thepenultimatechapter (the largest in the book) contains summaries of no fewer than ten different commentators within the space of thirteen pages. From theCambridge English Corpus In thepenultimatesection, models are estimated over three decades, 1960-89. From theCambridge English Corpus Forms withpenultimatestress were produced more often than forms with final stress. From theCambridge English Corpus Out of the 896 forms produced, 585 (65%) hadpenultimatestress. From theCambridge English Corpus That is, the phrase accent is copied to two locations, the nuclear syllable and thepenultimatesyllable. From theCambridge English Corpus The functional approach predicts that the masculine forms would be favored, whereas the prosodic approach predicts preference for forms withpenultimatestress. From theCambridge English Corpus This ranking accounts forpenultimatestress by ensuring that a bimoraic trochee is placed as close as possible to the right edge of the word. From theCambridge English Corpus Discounting the extrametrical string, then, stress ispenultimateunless the last syllable is closed or contains a long vowel, in which case it is final. From theCambridge English Corpus The nouns chosen were usually bisyllabic with initial stress (in some cases trisyllabic with initial orpenultimatestress, or monosyllabic with a sonorant coda). From theCambridge English Corpus It will be recalled that in such sequences, stress falls on thepenultimatesyllable of the lexeme (not the morphological word). From theCambridge English Corpus Thepenultimatechapter deals with the role of memory and the search for personal meaning in response to impending death in a death-denying society. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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