inflections

英 [ɪnˈflɛkʃənz]

美 [ɪnˈflɛkʃənz]

n.  (尤指词尾的)屈折变化; 语调的抑扬变化
inflection的复数

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 inflexion


• N-VAR 变音;转调;语调的抑扬变化
  Aninflectionin someone's voice is a change in its tone or pitch as they are speaking.
  1. The man's voice was devoid of inflection...
     那人的声音缺少抑扬变化。
  2. 'Seb?' he said, with a rising inflection.
     “是塞伯吗？”他扬声问道。
• (词形的)屈折变化;屈折形式
  In grammar, aninflectionis a change in the form of a word that shows its grammatical function, for example a change that makes a noun plural or makes a verb into the past tense.

双语例句

• Characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base.
  以表示词与词根之间语义关系的屈折为特点。
• Inflections of Controversy about National Cultural Resources
  从民族文化资源之争引发的思考
• The section shows you all inflections that will be found during a lookup.
  该部分显示了在查找过程中会发现的所有词形变化。
• This paper elucidates mainly how to extract the pitch signals from speech sounds and how to indicate the pitch inflections by curves, and discusses further the characteristics of the pitch curves in Standard Chinese.
  本文着重说明如何从语音中提取音高讯号，以及如何以曲线形式表示音高变化，然后讨论普通话声调音高曲线的特性。
• With English selected as language, you can see the inflections for write and scribble, whereas wrte is out-of-vocabulary.
  如果选择English作为字典语言，那么会发现write和scribble等词形变化，而wrte属于词汇表以外的词汇。
• The use of first person plural pronouns and inflections is quite flexible.
  第一人称复数的用法非常灵活。
• Different historical origins make English full of morphological changes and the Chinese language less of grammatical inflections.
  历史起源的不同导致英语多形态变化，汉语少语法变化。
• Characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions.
  以用屈折来表示语法差异为特点。
• The pitch inflections of speech sounds are indicated by the curves, which are drawn to enclose the ends of amplitudes of the sawtoothed waves.
  锯齿波振幅末端所形成的曲线代表语音音高变化。
• More than 70 per cent of bosses claim that the rising trend among Britons-especially teenagers-of adding inflections to the ends of sentences is particularly annoying.
  超过70%的老板认为在英国人（尤其是青少年）中，在句末加上一些曲折变化越来越流行，这实在是让人不胜其烦。