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

• 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。
• We will search for the motive of the grammaticalization from degree of grammaticalization, loss of inflections, competition and word order aspects.
  分别从语法化程度，曲折形式的脱落，竞争机制以及词序等四个方面进行对比研究从而探究出其各自结构背后推动其语法化的动因。
• Not having inflections to indicate tense.
  没有表示时态的屈折变化。
• 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。
• Through the identification of lemmas, inflections of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, as well as conjugations of verbs, are recognized.
  通过确定词元，名词、代词、形容词的语型变化，以及动词词形变化都会被识别出来。
• Vary your inflections and emphasize key words as well.
  也可以改变声调强调关键词。
• Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.
  说话者怎样表达行为或状态的动词变形。
• Inflections of Controversy about National Cultural Resources
  从民族文化资源之争引发的思考
• During the dictionary lookup, inflections of the base forms and variants are found.
  在字典查找期间，基本形式和变体的词形变化都将被查找到。
• 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。