Syllable

(noun.) a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; 'the word `pocket' has two syllables'.

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• It was known that they were a little acquainted; but not a syllable of real information could Emma procure as to what he truly was. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• You have not exchanged a syllable with one of them? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Nobody has wrote a syllable to me concerning his making use of the hammer, or made the least complaint of him or you. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I will take my oath he never dropt a syllable of being tired of her, or of wishing to marry Miss Morton, or any thing like it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• A voice from behind the curtain says, First syllable. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But it was not a letter-writing, it was a syllable-writing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You understand, of course--there wouldn't be a hint of publicity--not a sound or a syllable to connect you with the thing. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Since Miss Wilfer rejected me, I have never again urged my suit, to the best of my belief, with a spoken syllable or a look. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• And then the lockjaw closes down and nips off a couple of the last syllables--but they taste good. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Towards the last, I could understand some few syllables that she said to me, by placing my ear close to her lips. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Last two syllables, roars the head. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mis--ter Roke--smith, Pa,' said Bella separating the syllables for emphasis. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She pronounced the syllables of the name with a peculiar clearness, as if she had tapped on two silver bells. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• That was the word the man uttered, and of which his son only caught the last two syllables. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• But he certainly was more staggered by these terrible occurrences than he was by names, of howsoever so many syllables. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He studies too much for words of four syllables. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• One voice made of many voices, resounded through the chamber; it syllabled the name of Raymond. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Again her name was syllabled, and she shuddered as she asked herself, am I becoming mad, or am I dying, that I hear the voices of the departed? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• These words were syllabled trembling by the iron man. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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