emphasis

英 ['emf?s?s] 美['?mf?s?s]

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復數:?emphases;

emphasis: emphasis: [16] In Greek, émphasis originally meant simply ‘appearance’. It was a derivative of emphaínein ‘exhibit, indicate’, a compound verb formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and phaínein ‘show’ (source of English phase). It came to be used as a grammatical term denoting ‘implication’ (as opposed to ‘directly expressed meaning’) and passed in this sense via Latin emphasis into English. Its main modern use, ‘special importance placed on something’, derives from the stressing of a particular word or phrase in speech to show that it is intended to imply something other than its literal meaning might seem to suggest.
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emphasis (n.): 1570s, "intensity of expression," from Latin emphasis, from Greek emphasis "an appearing in, outward appearance;" in rhetoric, "significance, indirect meaning," from emphainein "to present, exhibit, display, let (a thing) be seen; be reflected (in a mirror), become visible," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + phainein "to show" (see phantasm). In Greek and Latin, originally a figure of expression implying more than would ordinarily be meant by the words, it developed a sense of "extra stress" given to a word or phrase in speech as a clue that it implies something more than literal meaning. In pure Latin, significatio.

1. The emphasis is on developing fitness through exercises and training.: 重點在于通過鍛煉促進健康。

2. His voice was angry and he spaced the words for emphasis.: 他的聲音里透著憤怒，為了強調，他一字一頓。

3. "I might have known it!" Miss Burnett said with emphasis.: “我早該料到了！”伯內特小姐加重語氣說。

4. Other projects came up and the emphasis of my work altered.: 突然來了一些其他的項目，我的工作重點便轉移了。

5. Why the new emphasis on sticks instead of diplomatic carrots?: 為什么最新政策強調采取強硬手段，而不是采用外交上的懷柔策略？