B1 the way in which people in a particular area, country, or social group pronounce words口音,腔調;土音
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At university he affected an upper-class accent.
He took elocution lessons to try to make his accent sound more genteel.
A woman with a very posh accent phoned for him earlier.
Many celebrities develop a working class accent to increase their street-credibility.
She speaks English without the slightest trace of an accent.
B2 a mark written or printed over a letter to show you how to pronounce it(標在字母上的)發音符號
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There's an acute accent on the e in blé, which is the French word for corn.
Pay attention to the accents on the words, because they show you how to pronounce them.
Françoise is spelled with an accent - a cedilla - on the 'c'.
There is an accent called an umlaut in the German word 'Gebaüde', which means 'building'.
They use quite a lot of accents in Turkish writing, don't they?
specialized language, music a special emphasis given to a particular syllable in a word, word in a sentence, or note in a set of musical notes重音
great importance is given to a particular thing or quality着重點在於…;注重…;強調…
to emphasize something強調;着重;突出
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